Lourenço de Salzedo en Roma. Influencias del Manierismo romano en la obra del pintor de la reina Catarina de Portugal

Abstract

Only in recent years have the works of Lourenço de Salzedo, a quite interesting painter from Seville who worked at the Portuguese court for queen Catherine of Austria (widow of king Joao III), from approximately 1564 to 1577 (year of his death), begun to be regarded in a new light. The recently restored panels that he painted between 1570 and 1572 for the main altarpiece of the Jeronymite Monastery of Lisbon display a profound knowledge of Italian culture, possible only for one who had studied in Rome. In effect, Salzedo was in the city of the Popes toward the middle of the sixteenth century - as were Gaspar Becerra, Pedro Roviale or the Portuguese artist Antonio Campelo - assimilating echos of Roman Bella Maniera painting in the works of the followers of Michelangelo - Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, Daniele da Volterra, Francesco Salviati and Pellegrino Tibaldi.