Pentecost triptych

This work was presented by Juan Luís, together with four portraits, for the National Exhibition of 1920, and he won the first medal for this piece. It was transferred from the Chapel of Sancti Spiritus to the Chapel of the Communion, where it remained abandoned on its tribune until the beginning of the 21st century.

The central panel depicts the Arrival of the Holy Spirit. The image is centred on Mary enthroned, framed by neo-Gothic architecture and accompanied by eleven apostles, whose faces, attitudes and clothing are carefully individualised. These figures are witnesses to the Arrival of the Holy Spirit in the form of a winged dove. In the background, there is a lush landscape.

The panel on the left depicts Saint Isabella of Portugal and the one on the right Saint Francis of Assisi. These are two saints associated with the pilgrimage to Compostela. In fact, the left panel depicts the moment when the Rainha Santa arrived in Santiago in 1326, with the queen framed by a scene of the city and its cathedral, with the central body of the Portico de la Gloria in the immediate background and, behind it all, the figure of the Pico Sacro. Isabella has taken off her crown, which she wears on a pillow, with the intention of offering it to Santiago, as the chronicles of her first pilgrimage narrate. In the last years of the 20th century, the work was incorporated into the Cathedral's collection, while waiting restoration, which was made possible thanks to the patronage of Abanca.