The Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya –with the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid– have co-organised this exhibition, which for the first time gathers together all the documented paintings attributed to Bartolomé de Cárdenas, alias El Bermejo, including some that have only recently been located. Bermejo (c.1440 – c. 1501) was a surprising and very personal artist who produced some of the masterpieces of Hispano-Flemish art, with an exquisite catalogue of paintings preserved at museums and collections in Europe and the Americas. Instead of the partial adaptation of the “Flemish style” practised by most of his contemporaries, his works display a virtuoso and personal recreation of the successful pictorial model inaugurated by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
The show includes emblematic pieces like St Michael, from the National Gallery, London; the Desplá Pietà from Barcelona Cathedral; and St Dominic of Silos from the Prado. These works are fundamental for appreciating Bermejo’s technical and compositional achievements and innovative models.
The Museo del Prado is the first venue for Bartolomé Bermejo, which subsequently travels to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
Begoña and I had the opportunity to visit this exhibition yesterday. Highly recommended.
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