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Altarpiece and altar frontal of Saint John from Quejana convent in Álava (1396)

2000; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Volume: 5; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5565/rev/locus.101

2014-8798

Marisa Melero-Moneo,

Historical Art and Architecture Studies

Altarpiece and altar frontal of Saint John from Quejana convent in Álava (1396) The altarpiece and altar frontal from the Saint-John convent of Quejana in Álava are now in the Art Institute of Chicago, but originally they were in the funerary Chapel that Pedro López de Ayala had in that convent.In a formal level, these paintings have been considered as archaic linear gothic, but we can also see in them features from the Italian and International styles.As refer to the iconographic point of view it has been studied the controversial aspects regarding its thematic and as refer to patronage, research has been done into the role supposedly played by the Ayala Chancellor in the commission of these paintings.In that way, the formal features of these paintings and the historical data that we know about the Chancellor advise us to relate their patronage with the Ayala's wife, Leonor de Guzmán.The previous means no problem to suppose that the role of these paintings was, as it is the case with the other elements in the Ayala funerary chapel, to exalt the Ayala family and to intercede for their eternal rest.