Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo Vatichino Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

The Clover Post Earrings' leaves are cast in hand-patinated bronze

Published by Duke University Press

These bravura passages recently revealed by the painting’s comprehensive cleaning – the first since its arrival in America – are accompanied by commentary from the conservator

lusty Andalusian protagonist torn between an army officer and a toreador

Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo Vatichino Robert SmithsonThis major publication sheds new light on one of the most important artworks produced in late fifteenth century Spain. The twenty six panels of the altarpiece of the cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo (Castile) rank among the most beautiful and ambitious works by two of Castiles gifted late medieval painters, Fernando Gallego and the virtually unknown Master Bartolom. Accompanying a major new exhibition of their work, this extensively illustrated volume