En torno al barroco rural en la Tierra de Santiago: El santuario de A Escravitude de Cruces y la problemática de los centros artísticos

Abstract

This study deals with the altarpiece of Nuestra Señora de la Esclavitud –or A Escravitude–; and it intends to complete the history of this santuary near Padrón (Padrón, A Coruña). Thanks to the exhaustive analysis of the parish archives at the Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Santiago (AHDS), it can be determined which artists worked there in the middle of the eighteenth century; this is the case of José de Malbares († h. 1767). Thus, this study unites numerous dispersed materials, with the addition of heretofore-unknown documents concerning the wood-carver.