Juan de Juanes School

School of JUAN DE JUANES (Valencia, around 1507 - Bocairente, Valencia, 1579).
"Ecce homo".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
Measurements. 40 x 30,5 cm; 48 x 40 cm (frame).
In this devotional canvas, painted for an altar or private chapel, the theme of Ecce Homo is represented, very common in this type of paintings. The composition is simple and clear, with the face of Christ in the foreground.
From its formal and technical characteristics we can suggest that the work follows models of the artist Juan de Juanes, the name by which Vicente Juan Macip, son of Juan Macip and key painter of the Spanish Renaissance, is known. He trained with his father, and in 1534 he was commissioned alone to paint the altarpiece of St. Eloy in the church of Santa Catalina, his first autograph work. It is conjectured whether Juanes studied in Italy, as his work is clearly influenced by that school, especially Sebastiano del Piombo. However, historians tend to think that he never left Spain and that, like his father, he absorbed these influences by observing first hand the Italian paintings that arrived in the Kingdom of Valencia. He was the most important painter of Valencian painting of his time, and although he was mainly dedicated to religious painting, he also painted notable portraits such as that of Alfonso V of Aragon. Juan de Juanes is currently represented in the Prado Museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, the Fine Arts Museum of Valencia, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and other important collections.