Granada School; End of the XVII century.

Granada School; End of the XVII century.
"Immaculate Conception".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
It has frame of the nineteenth century.
Measurements: 53 x 37, 5 cm; 64 x 50 cm (frame).
Devotional scene where the baroque heritage is maintained in a dynamic composition with moving characters, fully developing the action which is reflected in the treatment of their clothes. Since it is a scene already of advanced date within the baroque, we see that the space is unitary, dominating the celestial plane throughout the composition. Representation of Mary as Immaculate with the figure of full body, standing on an orb with the serpent that represents the devil, which is arranged in the center of a luminous break of Glory.
The 17th century marked the arrival of the Baroque in the Andalusian school, with the triumph of naturalism over Mannerist idealism, loose workmanship and many other aesthetic liberties. At this time the school reached its greatest splendor, both for the quality of the works and for the primordial rank of Sevillian Baroque painting. Thus, during the transition to Baroque we find Juan del Castillo, Antonio Mohedano and Francisco Herrera el Viejo, in whose works the rapid brushstroke and the crude realism of the style is already manifested, and Juan de Roelas, introducer of Venetian colorism. In the middle of the century the period reached its peak, with figures such as Zurbarán, a young Alonso Cano and Velázquez. Finally, in the last third of the century we find Murillo and Valdés Leal, founders in 1660 of an Academy where many of the painters active during the first quarter of the 18th century were trained, such as Meneses Osorio, Sebastián Gómez, Lucas Valdés and others.