Sobre tres tablas pintadas del siglo XVI

Abstract

The objective of this article is to announce three unpublished painting panels of the XVI century which belonged to the museum of the Capuchin College of Lecároz (Navarre). They represent the Stoning of Saint Stephan, Saint Julian and Saint Basilisa giving money to beggars and a Saint Bishop blessing the fields. Their approximately equal dimensions make us think that the three panels were a part of the same altarpiece. Because of their iconography and manneristic coloring may be considered as paintings of the Counter-Reformation in about 1590, what becomes rather obvious in the Stoning of Saint Stephan which reproduces an engraved stamp of Ecclesiae Militantis Triunphi (Rome, 1585) collecting the Jesuit iconography of the Counter-Reformation dedicated to the early martyrs of Christianism, which are related to the theological of Council of Trento. The engraving is due to Giovanni Battista Cavallieri. The anonymous painter of the Lecároz panels signs them with the monogram F M, the «F» letter overtopped by an «o» and the «M» by an «a» (or a «z»).