THE FIVE LORDS RECEIVE THE HEARTS OF CREOLE AND INDIGENOUS DONORS, A CANVAS OF JERÓNIMO DE BOBADILLA IN CHILE

Abstract

We present to the scientific community a new canvas of the not-well known Sevillian painter Jerónimo de Bobadilla, signed and dated in 1684, and currently held at the Carmen de Maipú Museum in Santiago de Chile. In addition to enriching and enlarging the catalogue of one of the unknown Sevillian painters of the Baroque era, we will analyze the originality of its iconographical program: the offering of the hearts of creole and indigenous donors to the Five Lords, a syntax of the Holy Family, scarcely present in Spain, but not so unusual in the New World.