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St Vincent Ferrer
1445-50
Oil on panel, 93 x 56 cm
Private collection

This panel representing St John the Evangelist, together with three others representing St Vincent Ferrer, St John the Baptist and St Bernard, once probably belonged to a larger altarpiece. St John the Evangelist and St John the Baptist are depicted in an idealized landscape setting, while the figures of St Vincent Ferrer and St Bernardino are positioned on a squared marble floor, with a parapet behind.

Depictions of Saint Vincent Ferrer were extremely popular with Dominican convents, hermitages and parrochial churches in Valencia during the 16th century and the subject was painted on numerous occasions by Juanes.

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Juan de Juanes was a Spanish painter, the son of the painter Vicente Macip (c.1475-c.1545), who had almost certainly studied in Italy, and probably in Venice. Juan de Juanes painted 'ideal' Counter-Reformation images, based on Leonardo's Last Supper (engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi) and Raphael's Madonnas, but also