Andalusian school of the second half of the seventeenth century. "The adoration of the shepherds". Oil on canvas. Relined.

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  Andalusian school of the second half of the seventeenth century. "The adoration of the shepherds". Oil on canvas. Relined. Presents repainting, restorations and jumps. With frame of the twentieth century. Measurements: 169 x 126 cm; 193 x 151 cm (frame). This canvas represents a classic theme in the History of Art, that of the shepherds adoring the newborn baby Jesus in the portal of Bethlehem. It is a scene that, as in this case, lends itself to be interpreted as a large composition with numerous characters, worked in a costumbrista key, so it was very much to the taste of the Baroque painters, who sought above all a natural and close art, which moved the mood of the faithful and made them feel close to what was represented on the canvas, to the sacred story. In this way, the divine elements are reduced to a minimum, only to a breaking of Glory in the upper part, with two child angels attending the event. As is typical of the first baroque, this celestial space appears clearly differentiated from the earthly, a clear separation that, however, will disappear in the second baroque. As for the rest of the characters, all are arranged in the lower part of the composition, and stand out for the gestural emphasis and the individualized clothing of each one. All of them are presented around the Child Jesus, arranged in the center of the composition as the absolute protagonist, directly illuminated by a divine light. In short, we see in this canvas a theme very repeated throughout the History of Art, and that during the Andalusian baroque knew a remarkable boom. The humanity that permeates the scene made the faithful identify with it, an intention that would characterize Spanish religious art from the Counter-Reformation onwards.
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