JOSE VERGARA (1726 / 1799) "The Sacred Heart of Jesus as Good Shepherd"

Together with José Camarón and Luis Planes, José Vergara was one of the leading figures of early academicism in Valencia. Together with his brother, the sculptor Ignacio Vergara, and other Valencian artists, he founded the Academy of Santa Bárbara in 1753, which would be the seed of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. His artistic output is very varied and he produced numerous important fresco paintings, miniatures and canvases, such as the one shown here representing the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the iconography of the Good Shepherd. In this work the use of models by Juan de Juanes is still evident, but with a fully academicist aesthetic approach of precise drawing and a chromatic palette of soft tones. . 114 x 87 cm.. Oil on canvas