Page 273 - The mystery of faith
P. 273
1 L. RÈAU, Iconografía del arte cristiano. Iconografía de los 6 Archivo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San
santos, Del Serbal, Barcelona 1997, tome 2, vol. III, pp. Fernando, ms. 62-8/5. In this text from the last quarter of
564–567. the eighteenth century, the author, Luis Santiago Bado, a
mathemetician from Murcia and a friend of Salzillo, records
2 C. DE LA PEÑA VELASCO, El retablo barroco en la antigua the existence of a sculpture made ‘for the Minims of Saint
diócesis de Cartagena (1670–1785), Murcia 1992, pp. Francisco de Paola, which is a quite admirable statue’.
278–279.
7 J. A. CEÁN BERMÚDEZ, Diccionario de los más ilustres
3 A. BAQUERO ALMANSA, Los profesores de las Bellas Artes profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, Madrid 1800, vol.
murcianas, Murcia 1913, pp. 216, 229; J. SÁNCHEZ VI, p. 32.
MORENO, Vida y obra de Francisco Salzillo: una escuela de
escultura en Murcia, Murcia 1983, p. 141. The latter author 8 According to SÁNCHEZ MORENO (Vida y obra de Francisco
transcribed an inscription on the now destroyed gilded Salzillo cit., p. 148), ‘Baquero and Tormo [the latter an
framing that indicated that the figure of the saint and its allusion to E. Tormo y Monzo, author of a well-known
surround had been completed by 1746. guide to the Levant, see Provincias valencianas y murcianas,
Madrid 1923] also noted an autograph sculpture of Saint
4 C. BELDA NAVARRO, ‘Los bocetos de Salzillo y su Francis de Paola, which was in all probabilities this
significación en la escultura barroca’, in Goya, no. 136, [sculpture] and another of Saint James, which was not
January–February 1977, pp. 226–233. [autograph]’.
5 C. BELDA NAVARRO, ‘Fuentes iconográficas y de inspiración 9 The Minims established themselves in Alcantarilla
en la escultura de Francisco Salzillo’, in Imafronte, 2, (Murcia) in 1704. Towards the middle of the century they
Murcia 1986, pp. 108–110. In A. E. BRICKMANN (Barock invested considerable effort towards building their convent
Bozzetti, Frankfurt 1923–1924, vol. II, p. 112) there is a and church, and it was probably at this time that Salzillo
head quite similar to Salzillo’s Saint Anthony, which is made this sculpture of Saint Francis de Paola.
described as ‘cabeza de santo’; by an unknown hand and
executed around 1735.
273
