Triptych with the Holy Family

Through the inventories of the banker Simón Ruiz, this triptych of Flemish roots is identified with the paintings described in an oratory of his home, further proof of the active artistic trade that this town had with the Netherlands. The central panel, with a mixtilinear profile at the top, presents a beautiful and repeated composition that shows the Virgin and Child seated on a throne with a canopy in the center. Beside her, the figure of Saint Joseph in the background holds a book and glasses in her hands, balancing it with the representation of an angel offering the Child a bunch of grapes, in an obvious allusion to the Eucharist. The Lateral panels are dedicated to the two mendicant founders, Santo Domingo de Guzmán and San Francisco de Asís, on the same landscape background that unifies them with the central panel.