Dear listmembers:
I am writing a review of J. Yarza Luaces, _El retablo de la Flagelacion
de Leonor de Velasco_, Madrid, El Viso, 1999.
This retablo, painted in Burgos c. 1490, shows an anomalous nimbed
Judas. Yarza states that this is simply the product of a painter's
mistake, but I think this is difficult to accept, mainly for three
reasons:
1. This "mistake" happens twice: in the Last Supper and in Christ's
Betrayal.
2. Admitting that the painter did not realize he was doing wrong, is it
correct to expect that the client, an Abbess, would accept the work
without imposing some corrections?
3. Yarza thinks that the retablo is the work of two artists. One of
them could had been a friar, so he was surely aware of the innacuracy of
a nimbed Judas.
Mi question is:
Are you aware of any late medieval example of negative personages
wearing a nimbus?
I thank any help in advance
Carlos
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