Pinturas del taller de Rubens legadas en Logroño en 1623

Abstract

Joseph of Velasco, canon of Logroño, and his brother John of Velasco, secretary of Ambrogio Spinola for more than twenty years, bequeathed in Logroño forty Flemish paintings although we only know the whereabouts of those that were given to the church of Santa María de Palacio. In this paper three unknown works by Rubens' workshop preserved in Santa Maria la Redonda in Logroño and the parish church of Xavier (Navarre) are proposed as part of the legacy: Christ Expiring on the Cross in life-size and two paintings of St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier.