Bartolomé Bermejo, (1440–1500)
Santo Domingo de Silos enthroned as bishop, between circa 1474 and circa 1477
Oil on panel
Height: 242 cm (95.2 ″); Width: 130 cm (51.1 ″)
Museo del Prado
Dominic of Silos, O.S.B., (Spanish: Santo Domingo de Silos) (1000 – December 20, 1073) was born at Canas de Navarre, on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. From a family of peasants, at first he looked after his father’s flocks in the foothills of the beautiful mountains of that region.
Developing a taste for silence and solitude, he entered the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla. As he made great progress in the religious state, he was entrusted with works of reform and became prior of his monastery.
Refusing to hand over to King Garcia III of Navarre some of the monastery’s lands which the monarch coveted, he and two of his companions were forced into exile by the king. They were warmly received by Ferdinand I of Castille and León who entrusted to Dominic the monastery of San Sebastián de Silos, in a remote part of the diocese of Burgos.
Bartolomé Bermejo, (1440–1500)
Ferdinand I of Castile welcoming Saint Dominic of Silos, between circa 1478 & 1479
Oil on panel
Height: 145 cm (57 ″); Width: 94 cm (37 ″)
Museo del Prado
The ancient Benedictine monastery, however, was decaying – structurally and spiritually. As Abbot of San Sebastian, Dominic restored order to both the physical structure of the edifice and the spiritual edifice of the souls within, and made Silos famous throughout Spain.
Dominic was a great miracle worker, and it was said that there was no disease that he had not, at one time or another, cured.
His charitable solicitude embraced not only the poor and the infirm but Christians enslaved by the Moors. These he endeavored by all means within his powers to free from their cruel captivity.
Saint Dominic Of Silos
About one hundred year after his death, a young woman, Blessed Juana de Aza de Guzmán, made a pilgrimage to his tomb, asking to conceive a child. The child she effectually conceived and bore, she named Dominic after the holy abbot of Silos. This Dominic became the great St. Dominic de Guzmán, founder of the Dominican Order.
Dominic of Silos died on December 20, 1073. More on Dominic of Silos
Bartolomé Bermejo (c. 1440 – c.1501) was a
Spanish painter who adopted Flemish painting techniques and conventions.
Although it is unclear where Bermejo received his training, his complete
mastery of the oil glaze technique suggests direct contact with 15th century
Flemish painting, which he was able to adapt perfectly to the demands of
Spanish altarpieces of the period: large-scale retables with many panels.
Though his documented career spans over thirty years, he was peripatetic: he
never settled in one place for more than a decade. Also, in a period and place
where painting was a business, and work was generally negotiated by contract,
there is both direct and indirect evidence that he was professionally
unreliable, though apparently his outstanding talent made patrons willing to
take the risk. At least three major altarpieces that he undertook, the high
altar retables of Santo Domingo de Silos in Daroca and Santa Anna in Barcelona,
and the triptych of the Virgin of Montserrat in Valencia, were left incomplete
for others to finish.
Documentation places his activity in four cities of the
Crown of Aragon: Valencia (1468), Daroca (1474), Zaragoza (1477–84) and
Barcelona [1486–1501). More on Bartolomé Bermejo
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