Null Andalusian School; late seventeenth century. 

"Holy family". 

Oil on canv…
Description

Andalusian School; late seventeenth century. "Holy family". Oil on canvas. Relined. It has an old frame. Measurements: 90 x 120 cm; 99 x 128 cm (frame). Displaced towards the left zone of the image, the Virgin and the Child hold their son who tries to move to approach his cousin Saint Juanito. The Virgin, who, although kind, keeps him on her lap, is placed on a pedestal in the way the author enthroned them in a higher position, thus indicating the relevance of the protagonists. Away from the traditional aesthetics of the representation of the Holy Family, it is interesting to note the presence of a group of small angels that are arranged in front of the main protagonists and bring to the scene a certain dynamism and decorative sense that harmonizes with the powdered and vaporous technique used by the artist to compose the image. The scene takes place in an interior of great opulence inspired by classical architecture, which is open to the outside on the right side, allowing a glimpse of a landscape that brings spatiality to the work. Due to its formal characteristics we can relate this work to the hand of José de Cieza, a baroque painter active in Granada and Madrid in the second half of the 17th century. Trained in the workshop of his father, the painter Miguel Jerónimo de Cieza, the young artist learned in his early years the Flemish formulas of his father's language, which will be visible in his first works. His art will evolve through the knowledge of Alonso Cano's painting, and finally he will reach a mature language characterized by complex architectural perspectives with small figures. Cieza's works are currently preserved in the Prado Museum, the Diocesan Museum of Huesca, the Royal Chapel of Granada, the Monastery of San Jerónimo, the Museum of Fine Arts of Granada and other public and private collections.

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Andalusian School; late seventeenth century. "Holy family". Oil on canvas. Relined. It has an old frame. Measurements: 90 x 120 cm; 99 x 128 cm (frame). Displaced towards the left zone of the image, the Virgin and the Child hold their son who tries to move to approach his cousin Saint Juanito. The Virgin, who, although kind, keeps him on her lap, is placed on a pedestal in the way the author enthroned them in a higher position, thus indicating the relevance of the protagonists. Away from the traditional aesthetics of the representation of the Holy Family, it is interesting to note the presence of a group of small angels that are arranged in front of the main protagonists and bring to the scene a certain dynamism and decorative sense that harmonizes with the powdered and vaporous technique used by the artist to compose the image. The scene takes place in an interior of great opulence inspired by classical architecture, which is open to the outside on the right side, allowing a glimpse of a landscape that brings spatiality to the work. Due to its formal characteristics we can relate this work to the hand of José de Cieza, a baroque painter active in Granada and Madrid in the second half of the 17th century. Trained in the workshop of his father, the painter Miguel Jerónimo de Cieza, the young artist learned in his early years the Flemish formulas of his father's language, which will be visible in his first works. His art will evolve through the knowledge of Alonso Cano's painting, and finally he will reach a mature language characterized by complex architectural perspectives with small figures. Cieza's works are currently preserved in the Prado Museum, the Diocesan Museum of Huesca, the Royal Chapel of Granada, the Monastery of San Jerónimo, the Museum of Fine Arts of Granada and other public and private collections.

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