1836 · Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao

The foreground of the composition presents a cross, inscribed at its base with the date and with the painter's signature, behind which are depicted a few of the buildings belonging to the convent of the Discalced Trinitarians, no longer standing. Some of the city's most emblematic monuments can be discerned in the background: on a hill to the left, San Servando castle and Alcántara bridge over the Tagus river; on the mountainside, the Alcázar fortress, the tower of the Cathedral and the Jesuit's dome; and lower down to the right, the Bisagra Door (also known as Door of Charles V) bearing the emperor's coat of arms. Everything appears bathed in the golden light of dusk and the remoteness is enveloped in a diaphanous atmosphere that confers the impression of mystery the painter captured so well.Show more