Saint Giles with Christ Triumphant over Satan and the Mission of the Apostles ca. 1408 Miguel Alcañiz (or Miquel Alcanyís) Spanish These panels, from an altarpiece for the Valencian church of San Juan del Hospital, are among the earliest works of Miguel Alcañiz, an artist whose style is marked by the presence of Gherardo Starnina during the 1390s. The influence of Starnina’s lyrical Florentine manner on that of the younger Spanish painter is unmistakable, especially in the brightly colored scenes of Christ casting demons from heaven and sending his apostles to evangelize the world. These unusu
Saint Giles with Christ Triumphant over Satan and the Mission of the Apostles ca. 1408 Miguel Alcañiz (or Miquel Alcanyís) Spanish These panels, from an altarpiece for the Valencian church of San Juan del Hospital, are among the earliest works of Miguel Alcañiz, an artist whose style is marked by the presence of Gherardo Starnina during the 1390s. The influence of Starnina’s lyrical Florentine manner on that of the younger Spanish painter is unmistakable, especially in the brightly colored scenes of Christ casting demons from heaven and sending his apostles to evangelize the world. These unusual depictions of spiritual conquest are fitting subjects for a church of the Hospitallers, an order of monk-knights dedicated to both warfare and Saint Giles with Christ Triumphant over Satan and the Mission of the Apostles 435572
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