VEGA , Mercedes

The panel painting San Telmo by an anonymous 16th century Spanish artist is part of the permanent exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of Seville, one of the most important Spanish galleries. As part of a larger study on 15th and 16th century Spanish painting, the principal interest of this work was to obtain more information the materials...

The Retable of the Passion of Christ (towards 1415) forms part of the permanent exposition of the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. It was painted by an anonymous author, who shows stylistic influences of Juan Sánchez de Castro, the most significant artistic figure in the Seville's painting of the 15th century. The retable is composed by a main...

A panel painting representing The Pietà by an anonymous author known as The master of Female Half-Lenghts was analysed by a non-destructive XRF technique. The Pietà forms an important part of the permanent exposition of the Fine Arts Museum of Seville. An unusual brownish tonality of the painting led to a research on pigments and their possible...