002. Miguel Barroso

GLORIFYING THE CHURCH THROUGH GARMENTS
This is one of a series of designs executed by the little known Miguel Barroso for the embroidery of liturgical vestments at the Monastery of El Escorial. Pricked for transfer and for a shoulder-length garment, the drawing depicts SS. John and Luke seated in a landscape with their respective attributes, the eagle and ox. At the lower right, a later owner of the sheet correctly identified John but mistook Luke for Mark, whose attribute is a lion. A faint outline of John's face, a copy after the finished figure, hovers at lower left.