Italian school of the second third of the seventeenth century. "Orla de flores con Niño Jesús y los atributos de la Pasión" (Flower border with Baby

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  Italian school of the second third of the seventeenth century. "Orla de flores con Niño Jesús y los atributos de la Pasión" (Flower border with Baby Jesus and the attributes of the Passion). Oil on canvas. Relined. Size: 48 x 88 cm; 69 x 109 cm (frame). We see in this canvas a typical composition of the Baroque period, mainly in the Netherlands or Italy, although the model also extended to other European schools, such as the Spanish. It is a scheme that combines a garland of flowers, sometimes also of fruits, with a religious representation of devotional type. The idea is to combine the genres of religious painting and still life, seeking a greater sumptuousness and a theatrical sense, almost trompe l'oeil, very much to the taste of Baroque painting. It should be noted that, in this type of compositions, the flowers are not simply a secondary, accessory element, but are worked with the same care, with the same quality as the religious image. In fact, sometimes they even show a more skilled hand, since these works were often the result of the collaboration of a painter of flowers and another specialized in the figure. In the representation of the image, the composition of the image is dominated by a lighting that affects the most prominent areas of the composition. The palette used revolves around greenish, ochre and carmine tones, bringing warmth to the scene, very elaborate and nuanced tones. In this image, of clear devotional character, we are presented with the Child Jesus lying on the cross, instrument of the Passion. Throughout its history, and especially in the Modern Age, Christian art took delight in projecting the shadow of the cross on the innocent infancy of Jesus. The contrast between the happy unconcern of a child and the horror of the sacrifice to which he was predestined was designed to move hearts. This idea was already familiar to the theologians of the Middle Ages, but the artists of that time expressed it discreetly, either through the worried expression of the Virgin, or through the bunch of grapes that the Child squeezes in his hands. It was especially in the art of the Counter-Reformation that this funeral presentiment of the Passion was expressed by means of transparent allusions. Zurbarán shows the Infant Jesus pricking himself with his finger while braiding a crown of thorns. Murillo, the little St. John the Baptist showing him his cross of reeds. Finally, the theme finds its most poignant expression in the theme of the Infant Jesus Sleeping on a cross.
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