Bustos-relicario napolitanos de 1608 en la Colegiata de Borja, Cuadernos de Estudios Borjanos, LVIII, 2015, pp. 73-113

Neapolitan reliquary busts of 1608 in the Collegiate Church of Borja escultura, reliquias, relicarios, bustos-relicario, Borja, Nápoles, GiovanBattista Gallonesculpture, relics, reliquary-bust, Borja, Naples, Giovan Battista GalloneEl tráfico de reliquias procedente de las catacumbas romanas originó en Nápoles, en torno a 1600, un peculiar busto-relicario que imitaba los relicarios labrados con metales preciosos. Algunos de los más tempranos conjuntos de medios cuerpos esculpidos llegaron a España: Valladolid, Medina de Pomar, Madrid y Monforte de Lemos. En 1608 Fray Juan López de Caparroso, obispo de Monopoli, trajo de Nápoles seis bustos-relicario, una figura completa y varios brazos-relicario que se colocaron en un retablo dedicado a Santo Domingo de Guzmán en la colegiata de Borja. Por el estilo se pueden relacionar con la obra de Giovan Battista Gallone, uno de los escultores napolitanos más activos en las primeras décadas del siglo XVII.The traffic in relics from the Roman catacombs gave rise in Naples, around 1600, to a singular type of reliquary-bust imitating reliquaries made of precious metals. Some of the earliest sets of sculpted half bodies came to Spain: Valladolid, Medina de Pomar, Madrid and Monforte de Lemos. In 1608 Fray Juan López de Caparroso, Bishop of Monopoli, brought six reliquary-busts from Naples, one complete figure and several arm-reliquaries which were placed in an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Dominic of Guzmán in the Collegiate Church of Borja. From their style they can be linked to the work of Giovan Battista Gallone, one of themost active Neapolitan sculptors during the first decades of the 17th century.