CUADRO VI

GOYA, Apparition of the Virgin of the Pillar to Saint James and his Saragossan disciples (1768)

The aparition of the Virgin of Pilar to Santiago and his disciples of Zaragoza, is a painting of the young Francisco de Goya, painted between 1768 and 1769. The painting represents the apparition of the Virgen del Pilar the Apostle James the Great and some of his Caesaragusta disciples.

The fervent feeling was common to the whole society of Zaragoza.

Should be noted that the Catholic tradition says that in the year 40, the Virgin Mary appeared to Santiago in Zaragoza, to encourage the apostle in the evangelization of Hispania. He came to the Easter collection of Quinto Zaragoza through inheritances and inter-family bonds.

It is the couple called Triple generation and has very common stylistic features, to Adoration of the Name of God, and the Baptism of Christ and the portrait of Juan-Martin Goycoechea.

Up, sitting with a pink robe is present the Virgen del Pilar,and below, in the lower right corner is the apostle Santiago in a red robe. In the upper right corner and on both sides of the picture are some angels, the angels of the right have a small sculpture of the Virgin Mary, and the angels of the left hold in their hands a column. Near the Santiago apostle, they are some of his disciples walking.