Santo Tomás y un donante

The painting was created in 1528 by Ambrosius Benson, a Flemish artist active in the 16th century. It originally came from the Convent of Santa Cruz la Real in Segovia, where it likely formed part of a larger altarpiece that included other works such as La Piedad and El nacimiento de la Virgen. After the convent was dissolved, the artwork entered the Museo de la Trinidad before being transferred to the Museo del Prado, where it is currently held.

The piece depicts Saint Thomas Aquinas with a donor, possibly the bachiller Juan Pérez de Toledo, and was restored recently, though it is not on public display.

Ambrosius Benson painted 'Santo Tomás y un donante' in 1528, an oil on panel work now housed in the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, having originally come from the convent of Santa Cruz la Real in Segovia. Following the desamortization of the convent, the piece entered the Museo de la Trinidad and later became part of the Prado's collection after the museum's integration. The work is not currently on display.

The painting was included in a 2005 publication by Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza.

It has been restored recently.

The painting is a fully Flemish Renaissance work, executed in oil on panel, and is associated with a documented group of panels that once formed part of a single altarpiece. According to scholarship cited in the Spanish-language reference, the panel belonged to a retable alongside companion works, La Piedad, El Entierro de Cristo, Santa Ana con el Niño Jesús y la Virgen, El abrazo ante la puerta dorada, Santo Domingo de Guzmán and El nacimiento de la Virgen, all of which likewise entered the Prado's holdings. Its provenance from the Convento de Santa Cruz la Real in Segovia, and the identification of the kneeling figure as possibly the bachiller Juan Pérez de Toledo, who held a funerary chapel there, situate the commission within the early sixteenth-century network of Flemish artists working for Iberian patrons and religious institutions.

After the disentailment of the convent, the panel passed through the Museo de la Trinidad before being incorporated into the Prado, where it has been recently restored and is not part of the displayed collection. The work is referenced in studies by Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (2005) and the Prado's own catalogue entry.

The painting thus exemplifies the cross-border circulation of Netherlandish painting in the 1520s and its adaptation to Spanish devotional contexts.

Santo Tomás y un donante is a 1528 oil painting by Ambrosius Benson, an Italian Northern Renaissance artist. The work is a religious genre painting from the early Baroque Italian period, now part of the Museo del Prado's collection.

As part of the Museo del Prado's collection, Santo Tomás y un donante contributes to the understanding of Ambrosius Benson's contribution to the Northern Renaissance and the evolution of religious art in the early Baroque period.