The Odyssey of a Diptych. Issues of Authorship and Provenience of the Virgen Dolorosa and the Cristo Coronado de Espinas from the Former Collection in Gołuchów

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Oskar J. Rojewski

o.rojewski@gmail.com
University of Silesia in Katowice - Instituto Moll. Centro de Investigación de Pintura Flamenca (Spain)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-8747

Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez


Instituto Moll. Centro de Investigación de Pintura Flamenca - University of Burgos (Spain)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-8670

Abstract

This paper aims to gather all information about the diptych of Mater Dolorosa and Christ Crowned with Thorns, which until 2023 stayed in the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra (Museo Provincial de Pontevedra) in Spain. The research addresses two aspects of the diptych: the controversy of its attribution to a circle of Albrecht Bouts or his follower and the diptych’s arrival at the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra. This study explains that this diptych’s former attributions cannot be supported due to his style and the new research about Bout’s workshop practices. Finally, it gathers all the documentary sources about its arrival at the Pontevedra Museum.


Keywords:

Flemish primitives, Albrecht Bouts, 16th-Century art, Christ Crowned with Thorns, Mater Dolorosa

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Rojewski, O. J., & Diéguez-Rodríguez, A. (2023). The Odyssey of a Diptych. Issues of Authorship and Provenience of the Virgen Dolorosa and the Cristo Coronado de Espinas from the Former Collection in Gołuchów. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, 85(1), 47–68. https://doi.org/10.36744/bhs.1200

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Oskar J. Rojewski 
o.rojewski@gmail.com
University of Silesia in Katowice - Instituto Moll. Centro de Investigación de Pintura Flamenca Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-8747

Oskar J. Rojewski – holds a doctorate in Art History from the University of Valencia and University Jaume I. He is an assistant professor in the Institute of Arts Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen and Rey Juan Carlos University. He researches the reception of the Netherlandish paintings at the European courts in the 15th and 16th century, artistic migrations, and courtly festivities.


Authors

Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez 

Instituto Moll. Centro de Investigación de Pintura Flamenca - University of Burgos Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-8670

Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez – holds a doctorate in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was a fellow in the Museo Nacional del Prado and Museo Provincial de Pontevedra. She is currently the Director of the Instituto Moll. Centro de Investigación de Pintura Flamenca and a professor at the University of Burgos. She researches Flemish paintings and painters in Spain during the 16th and 17th century and the artistic, social, and commercial ties between the Low Countries and the Spanish Monarchy.



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