page_title: In Ictu Oculi
hierarchical_section_title: In Ictu Oculi
caption_attribution_description: Español: Esta obra, junto con la que lleva por título In ictu oculi, le fue encargada a Juan de Valdés Leal para ser colocada en el sotocoro del Hospital de la Caridad de Sevilla, y al igual que en las pinturas del género Vanitas, aluden a la banalidad de la vida terrena y a la universalidad de la muerte, aunque también quedan unidas con el fin primordial de la Hermandad de la Caridad de Sevilla, que era el de enterrar a los ajusticiados e indigentes de la ciudad, al igual que otras hermandades similares existentes en España en esa época.
context_page_description: In Ictu Oculi is a very large oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Juan de Valdés Leal. It is dated to 1670-72, and was commissioned by the Brotherhood of Charity lay confraternity for the Hospital de la Caridad, Seville, a resting place for the old and a burial ground for paupers.
  The work is one of a pair of similar memento mori paintings - the other painting Finis Gloriae Mundi shows the remains of a bishop and knight. In Ictu Oculi shows the grim reaper carrying a coffin and scythe, triumphant among the remains of a now dead, but a formerly powerful and influential unidentified person. Both painting are still in place just inside the hospital entrance. They are considered the pinnacle of his artistic achievement, to the extent that he has been, perhaps unfairly, referred to as the "painter of the dead".
  A close copy by Reynoso dated to the 1860s–70s is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
context_section_description: In Ictu Oculi (In the blink of an eye) is a very large oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Juan de Valdés Leal. It is dated to 1670-72, and was commissioned by the Brotherhood of Charity (the Caridad) lay confraternity for the Hospital de la Caridad, Seville, a resting place for the old and a burial ground for paupers.
  The work is one of a pair of similar memento mori paintings - the other painting Finis Gloriae Mundi shows the remains of a bishop and knight. In Ictu Oculi shows the grim reaper carrying a coffin and scythe, triumphant among the remains of a now dead, but a formerly powerful and influential unidentified person. Both painting are still in place just inside the hospital entrance. They are considered the pinnacle of his artistic achievement, to the extent that he has been, perhaps unfairly,  referred to as the "painter of the dead".
  A close copy by Reynoso dated to the 1860s–70s is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
caption: Finis gloriae mundi, 1672, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville
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