17th century Spanish school. "Still Life of Flowers". Oil on canvas.

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  17th century Spanish school. "Still Life of Flowers". Oil on canvas. Redesigned. Rear frame and frame. Measurements: 49 x 39 cm; 63 x 53 cm (frame). Vase of marked baroque character, in which the author transmutes the inheritance of the still life of flowers in a direction of greater baroque complication. Formally it also highlights the technique, meticulous and precious, which reflects each of the details of the flowers, showing a certain influence of contemporary Flemish painters, while it shows the continuity, in some features, with the Spanish still life of the first half of the seventeenth century. While during the first half of the century the still life is orderly and clear, with a classicist aesthetic, the works of the second half of the century present very different characteristics, the result of the stylistic evolution towards the full baroque, leaving behind the dominant classicism of the beginning of the century. In works such as the one presented here, the taste for extreme naturalism is maintained, which leads the author to meticulously describe not only the details of the flowers and the vase, but also to convey their different tactile qualities. This work presents, however, formal features that still correspond to a moment of transition between the naturalism of the beginning of the century and the full baroque of the second half of the 17th century. It is a dynamic composition in terms of the arrangement of the flowers, and they appear full, voluminous, in all their splendor. However, the vase is placed in the strict center of the painting, on a simple wooden surface and in front of a dark background on which the flowers are cut out, vividly illuminated. It is a composition centered and dominated by geometry, not yet the open and dynamic structures, full of diagonals, of the full baroque. However, the arrangement of the flowers has already lost the strict rigor and austerity of the naturalistic baroque. The luminous aspect, on the other hand, is key in this work, and reveals the direct influence of the tenebrist baroque, which reaches these still life painters through the work of Maíno.
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