El pintor Alonso de Narváez y la devoción a la virgen de Chiquinquirá. Nuevos aportes biográficos

Abstract

The first European painter we have word of in the New Kingdom of Granada is the Sevillian artist Alonso de Narváez, who settled in Tunja a few years after the city’s foundation in 1539. Though little is known about his life, we do know that he painted the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, which attracted fame and devotion that would soon extend beyond the limits of the Royal Audiencia, as we will show throughout the text. In this article we reconstruct Narváez’s family tree and other aspects relating to his life, his work as an artist and his social and community ties. In doing so, we have referred to his will, various court papers, population censuses, memorial pieces, and other official documents.