Granada School; XVII century.

Granada School; XVII century.
"San Juan de Dios".
Oil on panel.
It has slight Repainting and varnish sweeping.
It has a frame of the nineteenth century with slight scratches.
Measurements: 19 x 15.5 cm; 28.5 x 25 cm (frame).
The seventeenth century in the Andalusian school is the arrival of the Baroque, with the triumph of naturalism against Mannerist idealism, a loose invoice 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 the Sevillian Baroque painting. Regarding the Granada school, when Alonso Cano returned to Granada in 1652, he attracted all the artists to him. It could almost be said that the features that characterize the school are the features of its style. Thus, in all of them, the search for the ideal and elegant in the types, the escape from realism and the genre scene, paying little attention to portraiture and almost no attention to still life. Rich color intonations abound in all of them, with specific palette preferences, such as the use of asphalt, and also the taste for Flemish painting, which would have been promoted by Pedro de Moya, who is said to have traveled to Flanders and England.
St. John of God was a Portuguese soldier turned health worker in Spain, whose followers later formed the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, a worldwide Catholic religious institute dedicated to the care of the poor, the sick and those suffering from mental disorders. He is considered one of the world's leading religious figures. The first biography of John of God was written by Francisco de Castro, chaplain of the Juan de Dios Hospital in Granada, Spain. It was based on his personal knowledge of Juan as a young man. Shortly after the publication of Castro's Historia, an Oratorian priest, Giovanni Bordini, published an Italian translation in Rome in 1587. Despite a number of translation errors and his own strange comments, this work became the source of most translations into other languages.