"Les Arts libéraux" du Puy-en-Velay: une oeuvre de Pedro Berruguete?

• Autores: Alejandro Cely Velasquez
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 219, 2023, págs. 30-41
• Idioma: francés
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  • Based on connoisseurship , this study seeks to establish the identity of the mural painting of the "Arts Libéraux" in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Puy-en-Velay. To do this first will be taken into consideration the material history of the work since its discovery by Prosper Mérmée by reviewing the main proposals of attribution that have been made up to the present time. Based on stylistic characteristics as well as on documentary sources, the proposition of attributing the work to the Castilian Pedro Berruguete arises as a possibility deserving serious consideration. After an examination of the materiality of the work, then an exploration of the different sources available on its sponsor, the Canon Pierre Odin, ambassador of France to the Pope Sixtus IV in the years 1470-1480, we can propose Pedro Berruguete as the artist who executed this painting in Puy. The closest similarities can be seen by comparing the work to a "Virgin with Child" in the Prado by the same painter. Our hypothesis is the following: after having served as portraitist for the Duke Federico de Montefeltro in Italy, Pedro Berruguete would have returned to Spain in the mid-1480s but passed through France in order to realize the painting in Puy for the Canon Odin. We draw multiple conclusions from this. On the one hand, we must reconsider Pedro Berruguete's career and the corpus of this work. Certain of his paintings are still regularly attributed to Justus of Ghent for example. However the evolution of the painter's style provides a better explanation: passing from a careful Flemish style to a series of Spanish altarpieces with notable differences, the painting in Puy can be perceived as an intermediate link between the painter's Italo-Flemish phase and his Spanish phase