"Y hablaron de pintores famosos de Italia." Estudio interdisciplinario de una nueva pintura novohispana del siglo XVI

Abstract

This article offers a historical, artistic, technical and material analysis of a Novohispanic painting that is studied here from an interdisciplinary perspective: La Sagrada Familia con san Juan niño (The Holy Family with St. John as a Child), which presents similarities to the plastic art of New Spain in the last third of the sixteenth century; the work is compared, in particular, with paintings attributed to Andrés de Concha, while its similarities to production of the same period in Seville are also examined, especially the work of Pedro Villegas Marmolejo. The technical study helps to establish the temporality and technical characteristics of the work in contrast with others of the same historical moment drawing on treatises on painting and other historical documents.