<p>El canónigo Tomás Fort y su defensa de la ortodoxia católica en el retablo de la Epifanía de la catedral de Huesca</p>

Abstract

In 1565 Tomás Fort, canon and archdeacon of the Cathedral of Huesca and commissioner of the Inquisition, ordered an altarpiece depicting the Epiphany from the sculptor Juan de Rigalte, for his new funerary chapel in the cathedral. This article analyses how this space and especially the altarpiece were conceived specifically in response to an address given more than forty years earlier by the canon Martín de Santángel, who came from a Jewish converso family, in his Santa Ana chapel: the iconographic programme of Tomás Fort’s altarpiece is in line with the strictest Catholic orthodoxy regarding Christ and his mission of salvation as the Messiah. And in contrast to the approach of Santángel, it appears to reinforce the idea that Christ favoured the so-called Old Christians.