La iconografía de San Bartolomé en el sepulcro de D. Pedro I (Monasterio de Alcobaça, Portugal)

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Ana Cristina Correia de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Rosas, Lúcia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/77485
• topic: Humanidades; Humanities

Considered as two reference points of European gothic sculpture, the tombs of D. Pedro and Inês de Castro (c. 1360-1367) in the monastery of Alcobaça, Portugal, have been the subject of great attention and study since the end of the 19th century. The technical quality, the anonymity of their execution and the complexity of the iconographic programme of the two monuments has fuelled this fascination and led to many readings and interpretations. The recognition that the narrated themes follow a cohesive, conscious, thought out selection of a biographical nature has led scholars to privilege some of the narratives represented on the tombs considered rare in Portuguese medieval iconography, including the Wheel of Life/Wheel of Fortune and the Last Judgement. However, these approaches have overlooked the detailed representation of the life and martyrdom of St Bartholomew. The purpose of this paper is precisely that: a thorough analysis of these episodes in conjunction with written sources and other contemporary works. The rarity of iconographic works referring to the life of St. Bartholomew in European medieval art equally justifies the interest shown in D. Pedro I's tomb.