The style of the Flemish painters, who brought with them the new technique of transparent oil painting, was adopted by the court of Castile in the second third of the fifteenth century. Among the pioneers of this style was Louis Alincbrot who painted the complex triptych depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The picture shows the central panel of the triptych which depicts Jesus Debating with the Doctors of the Church, The Road to Calvary, and in the background, The Crucifixion. The left panel depicts The Circumcision, while the on the right has a Pietà, with the sarcophagus for Christ’s burial in the background.
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The present portrait belongs to the early part of the artist’s career, cut short by his untimely death in 1845.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi, “De quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis”, Bologna 1637, 267.
These animal pictures can be found in the “Tavola di animali” vol. 6/2, fol. 87.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi “Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium”, Bologna 1642, 127.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi “Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia”, Bologna 1621, 369.
These animal pictures can be found in the “Tavola di animali” vol. 5/1, fol. 20.
Alcibar was a famous painter in Mexico in the viceregal period. He painted murals in many cathedrals, and painted portraits of nuns. In 18th-century Mexico hundreds of portraits were produced on the occasion of taking vow of chastity of young girls going to a convent. This painting representing a 16 years old girl belongs to this series.




















