Optical illusion painting of man, woman, death in The Granted Speaker Alonso, Lad of Many Owners, by Jerónimo de Alcalá (1624)

Title

Optical illusion painting of man, woman, death in The Granted Speaker Alonso, Lad of Many Owners, by Jerónimo de Alcalá (1624)

Description

Original title: Trompe l'oeil painting of man, woman, death, in El Donado Hablador Alonso, Mozo de Muchos Amos ("Optical illusion painting of man, woman, death in The Granted Speaker Alonso, Lad of Many Owners") 

Fragment from El Donado Hablador Alonso, Mozo de Muchos Amos (The Granted Speaker Alonso, Lad of Many Owners) by Jerónimo de Alcalá:
 
 "Vuesamerced, señor, no ha caido en este misterio: habrá de saber que esta imágen que dice es una pintura hecha con cierta traza, inventada ahora nuevamente con ciertas tablillas, que pintadas por el un lado hacen parecer un galan y por el otro una dama, y en frente, en el llano de la tabla, una muerte: de modo que hace tres figuras mudando el lugar para mirarla.
   Cura. Ya yo me acuerdo desas imágenes, que dieron un tiempo en usarse mucho, aunque ahora no se hacen como solia; y vi en una imágen de un Salvador, la de un Cristo crucificado y la de la Madre de Dios: al principio dieron mucho gusto y se estimaron; pero despues, con la abundancia dellas y tenerla todos, vinieron á valer en muy bajo precio, sucediendo lo que en las esmeraldas, que con ser unas piedras tan agradables á la vista y de tantas virtudes, solo porque hay muchas y tenellas tantos han venido á estimarse en poco."

Translation:
"Your mercy, sir, have not fallen in this mystery: you must know that this image that you say is a painting made a with certain draw, now reinvented with certain boards, which painted on one side they look like a gallant and on the other a lady, and in front, on the flat side of the board, death: so he (the painter) creates three figures based on the side they are being looked at.
   Priest. I already remember these images, which were used extensively some time ago, although now they are not created as they used to; and I saw in an image of a Savior, that of a crucified Christ and that of the Mother of God: at first they were very pleasing and esteemed; but later, due to their abundance and commonness, they are not worth very much, similar to what happened with emeralds, that despite being such 
pleasing to the eye and virtuous stones, just because there are many and many people own them they are not worth much."

Creator

Jerónimo de Alcalá Yáñez y Rivera (1571- 1632)

Source

Fragment from El Donado Hablador Alonso, Mozo de Muchos Amos (The Granted Speaker Alonso, Lad of Many Owners) by Jerónimo de Alcalá Yáñez y Rivera Part 2, Chapter VIII, p. 567 (1624). In Novelistas posteriores a Cervantes (Post-Cervantes novelists), Volume 18 Volume 18; Volume 33 of Biblioteca de autores españoles. Novelistas posteriores a CervantesGerónimo de Alcalá Yáñez y Rivera. Cayetano Rosell (ed.), Hernanda y ca (1898, c.).
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Date

1624

Format

Fragment in novel.

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