id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dfmbuusxdfakbf5ummfl42rwiq Carla Rahn Phillips Visualizing Imperium:The Virgin of the Seafarersand Spain's Self-Image in the Early Sixteenth Century 2005 42 .pdf application/pdf 17081 1282 73 The Virgin of the Seafarers (1531–36) by Alejo Fernández was designed as the central panel resembled images of the Virgin by several artists who worked in Seville, but and admired in Spain), but Alejo's magnificent portraits of the king kneeling in the foreground and St. Joseph in the background give the painting the Old World context in which Alejo Fernández would paint his altarpiece Yet Alejo's rendition also suggests another image with particular resonance in Seville: the sculpted image of the Virgin of the Kings, patroness including a painting of the Virgin by Alejo for an altarpiece in Villasana de version of the gold-robed figure in Alejo's Virgin of the Seafarers, and the the gold-robed figure in The Virgin of the Seafarers depicted Columbus, The Adoration of the Magi-Kings that Alejo Fernández painted for his sovereignty, and by the time Alejo painted the altarpiece the New ./cache/work_dfmbuusxdfakbf5ummfl42rwiq.pdf ./txt/work_dfmbuusxdfakbf5ummfl42rwiq.txt