El cielo de Salamanca: ciencia y arte en una obra singular

Conferencia de Azucena Hernández Pérez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Presenta: Beatriz Campderá Gutiérrez, Museo Arqueológico Nacional

The "Cielo de Salamanca" is a singular pictorial work. It is a large mural painting, made in the last quarter of the 15th century, which represents the celestial vault with its constellations and with the inclusion of the planets located according to the Ptolemaic cosmological model accepted at that time.

The work was painted in the vault that covered the library of the University of Salamanca and only a third of its surface has been preserved because the rest collapsed in the second half of the 18th century due to some works. The study carried out in this preserved section, from the double point of view of astronomy and art, has allowed a proposal to be made of what should have been the complete work whose authorship is attributed to the Castilian painter Fernando Gallego.