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Diego Valentín Díaz (Valladolid, 1586-1660)
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Diego Valentín Díaz (Valladolid, 1586-1660)
"Christ Dressed as a Jesuit Priest Adored by Angels"
Oil on canvas.
245 x 205 cm.
A beautiful painting by Diego Valentín Díaz, an artist from Valladolid, dated 1653, seven years before his death. Therefore this is one of the artworks he created in full maturity.
The painter, born in Valladolid in 1586, is considered "the most important painter of the Valladolid School in the first half of the 17th century," as stated by Enrique Valdivieso González, Professor of Art History at the University of Seville, in the 2017 report that comes with the painting in this lot. As the professor explains, "the technical characteristics of this painter are clearly recognised in the configuration of the anatomy of Christ and also in that of the two angels flanking him, who have kind, sweet, and deeply intimate features. The details of the meticulous embroideries on the angels' tunics also reveal Diego Valentín Díaz's technique, who, in addition to being a painter, was also an excellent polychromist of sculptural images."
This is an iconographic model that he repeated multiple times, with minimal variations (movement of the angels, inclusion of a cartouche at the feet of Christ, inclusion of two donors in prayer, with the nun from the Monastery of Santa Brígida, Marina de Escobar, dictating her visions, etc).
This theme was a trend in 17th-century Valladolid, and its success led to prolific production from Navarre to León, passing through Ágreda, Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Medina del Campo, and Alicante. It was even exported to Latin America "across the seas", where the Jesuits continued their missionary activities.
The painting shows a very specific iconography that originates from the mystic from Valladolid, Marina de Escobar (1554-1633), who saw Christ during her raptures and ecstasies, "in His own face and stature of a perfect man, aged 33 years old [...] and in all this, He represented such authority and majesty that He showed himself to be true God as well as true man" (book I, chapter III, p. 14).
The Jesuit fathers themselves, especially their confessor, Father Luis de la Puente, took care to spread the vision through the book, the "Life of Marina de Escobar" and the sermons preached by the religious order after her death, starting in 1633.
This dual condition, human and divine, is defined by the coronation arranged by the cherubs from heaven, surrounding Him, as He is adored by the angels who also served in other visions narrated by Marina de Escobar and also painted by Valentín Díaz.
One of the first examples of this subject was the Christ dressed as a Jesuit adored by angels that the artist painted for the church of San Miguel in Valladolid, the former Jesuit college of San Ignacio, circa 1615. Diego Valentín Díaz knew Marina de Escobar personally, and he portrayed her on various occasions.
The work highlights the authority of the Catholic priesthood, especially the Jesuit priesthood. The hieraticism of Jesus as a priest does not move the viewer to emotion, and all it conveys is a theological truth intended to inspire devotion to Jesus, the supreme and eternal priest, propagated by the Jesuits and the Bridgettine Mothers founded by Marina de Escobar.
He is surrounded by angels in flight and on their knees in adoration and prayer. Those on the left hold flowers and a scroll with the inscription: "SPICE IN FACIE CHRISTI, TUI PROTECTOR" 1653. (Look upon the face of Christ, your protector).
The painting demonstrates skill and mastery of nuances, soft and cool tones, reverent so as not to distract from the composition or the theological message it contains, as well as a wise choice of faces and angels that transport us to Christ as "true God and true man."
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Diego Valentín Díaz (Valladolid, 1586-1660)
"Christ Dressed as a Jesuit Priest Adored by Angels"
Oil on canvas.
245 x 205 cm.
A beautiful painting by Diego Valentín Díaz, an artist from Valladolid, dated 1653, seven years before his death. Therefore this is one of the artworks he created in full maturity.
The painter, born in Valladolid in 1586, is considered "the most important painter of the Valladolid School in the first half of the 17th century," as stated by Enrique Valdivieso González, Professor of Art History at the University of Seville, in the 2017 report that comes with the painting in this lot. As the professor explains, "the technical characteristics of this painter are clearly recognised in the configuration of the anatomy of Christ and also in that of the two angels flanking him, who have kind, sweet, and deeply intimate features. The details of the meticulous embroideries on the angels' tunics also reveal Diego Valentín Díaz's technique, who, in addition to being a painter, was also an excellent polychromist of sculptural images."
This is an iconographic model that he repeated multiple times, with minimal variations (movement of the angels, inclusion of a cartouche at the feet of Christ, inclusion of two donors in prayer, with the nun from the Monastery of Santa Brígida, Marina de Escobar, dictating her visions, etc).
This theme was a trend in 17th-century Valladolid, and its success led to prolific production from Navarre to León, passing through Ágreda, Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Medina del Campo, and Alicante. It was even exported to Latin America "across the seas", where the Jesuits continued their missionary activities.
The painting shows a very specific iconography that originates from the mystic from Valladolid, Marina de Escobar (1554-1633), who saw Christ during her raptures and ecstasies, "in His own face and stature of a perfect man, aged 33 years old [...] and in all this, He represented such authority and majesty that He showed himself to be true God as well as true man" (book I, chapter III, p. 14).
The Jesuit fathers themselves, especially their confessor, Father Luis de la Puente, took care to spread the vision through the book, the "Life of Marina de Escobar" and the sermons preached by the religious order after her death, starting in 1633.
This dual condition, human and divine, is defined by the coronation arranged by the cherubs from heaven, surrounding Him, as He is adored by the angels who also served in other visions narrated by Marina de Escobar and also painted by Valentín Díaz.
One of the first examples of this subject was the Christ dressed as a Jesuit adored by angels that the artist painted for the church of San Miguel in Valladolid, the former Jesuit college of San Ignacio, circa 1615. Diego Valentín Díaz knew Marina de Escobar personally, and he portrayed her on various occasions.
The work highlights the authority of the Catholic priesthood, especially the Jesuit priesthood. The hieraticism of Jesus as a priest does not move the viewer to emotion, and all it conveys is a theological truth intended to inspire devotion to Jesus, the supreme and eternal priest, propagated by the Jesuits and the Bridgettine Mothers founded by Marina de Escobar.
He is surrounded by angels in flight and on their knees in adoration and prayer. Those on the left hold flowers and a scroll with the inscription: "SPICE IN FACIE CHRISTI, TUI PROTECTOR" 1653. (Look upon the face of Christ, your protector).
The painting demonstrates skill and mastery of nuances, soft and cool tones, reverent so as not to distract from the composition or the theological message it contains, as well as a wise choice of faces and angels that transport us to Christ as "true God and true man."
Millésime 24
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Once again, we start the year with a special auction, called Millésime.
A catalog of 73 lots of European, Novo-Hispanic and Vicerregal art, so spanish americas art, where you will find paintings, furniture, decorative arts etc.
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