Spanish School; XIX Century. "Interior of tavern". Oil on canvas. Relined.

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  Spanish School; XIX Century. "Interior of tavern". Oil on canvas. Relined. Measurements: 147 x 173 cm. Scene of interior, in which a tavern or inn is represented, where different characters maintain a conversation. Due to the clothes of these characters, all male, it is deduced that it is a meeting between the clergy and the army. Due to these popular types, represented, this painting can be inscribed within the rise of regionalisms. Traditionally, Spanish painting and literature have been interested in popular customs and types. The arrival of romanticism enlivened this current, bringing to the Hispanic tradition the vision that foreigners had of our people, due to the snobbery of a Europeanizing and liberal national bourgeoisie that, also by foreign influence and under the romantic fashion, turns its eyes to the people and the monuments of the past. This, general in all Spain, will be preferably in Andalusia, for being this land the dreamed goal of foreigners, and where the influence of the vision they had of the Spaniard and his peculiar customs had to be felt more strongly. Thus, of the two fundamental costumbrista schools, the Sevillian school is focused on a friendly and folkloric picturesqueness, far from any attempt at social criticism; on the other hand, the Madrilenian school is more pungent and harsh, sometimes showing not only the vulgar, but even recreating torn visions of a topical world, in which the spirit of criticism is evident. The Cadiz precursors Juan Rodríguez y Jiménez and Joaquín Manuel Fernández Cruzado were followed by a splendid development of the Seville school, where it seems that foreign influence played an important role, due to the influx of artists and travelers to the city, and the interest of the foreign clientele in topical Spanish costumbrist scenes.
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