What is it about?
The Hispanic Society houses a gilded and polychrome wood relief of the Resurrection, traditionally attributed to the spanish Castilian school of Gil de Siloé (active ca. 1470-1501). In this paper, a recent hypothesis that proposes a Valencian provenance for the relief is explored. It was probably commissioned by a Valencian guild house, specifically that of the master masons. It is thought to be the work of Carles Gonçalbez, a local sculptor who ran an active atelier in the city of Valencia (Spain) at the turn of the sixteenth century. The piece’s characteristics, very similar to those of the sculptor’s oeuvre, and its distinctive iconography of the Resurrection, with a kneeling soldier in prayer before Christ resurrected, featuring in many Valencian late gothic paintings, are just some of the aspects that are taken into consideration to flesh out our hypothesis
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Why is it important?
It proves the existence of a valencian school of sculpture. It helps to understand the works of other artists as Damián Forment. It also deals with the sale of important works of art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and to some important art collections in USA such as the Hispanic Society.
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Writing this article was a one of the results of some months of a Fulbright research grant at Harvard University who allowed me to study works of art that had left Spain, and helps me to get a better understanding of some artistic collections abroad.
Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer
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This page is a summary of: The Hispanic Society’s Resurrection relief, a Valencian work from the turn of the sixteenth century, Sculpture Journal, July 2020, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/sj.2020.29.2.3.
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