Apparition of Christ to the Virgin Mary

Apparition of Christ to the Virgin Mary is an oil painting on wood painted by Friar Carlos in 1529, a work that initially decorated the Convent of Espinheiro, in Évora, where Friar Carlos was a monk and was active, and later transferred to the National Museum of Ancient Art, in Lisbon, where it is located Today. The Apparition of Christ to the Virgin Mary represents an episode of the life of Christ after having risen, which has not been narrated in the Gospels, and comes from Apocryphal texts and which was represented in Flemish and Portuguese Renaissance art. above all, due to a certain recurrent archaism in Flemish art of the 16th century, visible, for example, in the representation of the human figure, this painting reveals the Flemish origin of Friar Carlos and the influence that the flaming Gothic of the schools of Ganto-Bruguese exercised in his work. perspective, albeit forcibly, trying to integrate the author into the pictorial novelties that had occurred in Italy.