Nuno Salido, Tutor of the Infantes, Sees Evil Omens for them in this War 1612

Editor: This is Antonio Tempesta's "Nuno Salido, Tutor of the Infantes, Sees Evil Omens for them in this War." It’s a very busy composition, with all these figures on horseback and those eerie characters up in the hills. It feels ominous, doesn’t it? What kind of story do you think Tempesta is telling here? Curator: Ominous is the perfect word! I see a clash between duty and premonition. Nuno Salido, the tutor, likely possessed knowledge of augury – reading omens. He sees a dark fate, perhaps divinely inspired, but his charges, the Infantes, dismiss his warnings. It's a tragedy in the making, with those figures above representing fate itself, looming over the events. Do you get a sense of the inevitability? Editor: Yes, it's like a stage being set for a disaster. It makes you wonder, were the omens true? Curator: The power of art, isn’t it? To make us ponder not just what happened, but what *might* have been, and the forces at play behind the scenes.