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Vicente Méndez Hernán
La firma hallada en la peana de la escultura dedicada a san Vicente Ferrer en Cañamero nos ha permitido documentar y sumar esta obra a las diez que Luis Salvador Carmona firmó a lo largo de toda su carrera. A esta singularidad se une el tipo iconográfico que el artista inauguró en su producción y, prácticamente, en el conjunto de la escultura barroca española, al representar a san Vicente en su doble faceta de Ángel Apocalíptico e incansable predicador. A esta segunda vertiente respondía la obra desaparecida en 1936 de la Magistral alcalaína, que le atribuimos y sumamos a la anterior como segunda versión de un tema en el que no se prodigó. Ambas partieron de un grabado de Procaccini, y presentan aspectos deudores de los dibujos que el artista hacía a partir de las telas dispuestas sobre el maniquí inventariado en su taller, lo que ha permitido su atribución.
The sculpture of San Vicente Ferrer in Cañamero is one of the eleven works signed by Luis Salvador Carmona throughout his long career, which has allowed us to document this example as a personal work. This peculiarity is enhanced by the iconographic type which the artist inaugurated with its production and in baroque Spanish sculpture on portraying the saint in his dual role of Apocalyptic Angel and tireless preacher. The latter is reflected in the work lost in 1936 from the church of La Magistral in Alcalá de Henares, which is attributed to the sculptor and thus complements the former as the second version of a theme which he did not continue. Both sculptures were based on an engraving by Procaccini, and they present aspects indebted to the drawings that the artist made from the canvases arranged on the mannequin inventoried in his workshop, which has allowed the attribution.
