Andalusian school; first half of the XIX century.

Andalusian School; first half of the XIX century.
"Saint John the Evangelist".
Oil on canvas.
Measurements: 90 x 71 cm; 99 x 80 cm 8frame).
The most poetic and conceptual of the four evangelists, John the Evangelist is usually assimilated to the figure of the "beloved disciple", and the writings say that after the martyrdom of Peter and Paul he settled in Ephesus. Tradition has it that he was taken to Rome, where the emperor Domitian ordered him to be burned with boiling oil. He is not considered a martyred apostle according to tradition, since he was saved from martyrdom and was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse. St. John the Evangelist is one of the figures who appears most often in the narratives and plastic representations of the Passion of Christ. He is usually represented at the foot of the cross next to the Virgin, and it was he who leaned his head on the chest of Jesus at the Last Supper, being revealed to him the name of the disciple who would betray his master.