Seville, Cordoba and first successes
Naturalist training, conventual commissions and first signatures established a dramatic personality. This milestone sheds light on the "Juan de Valdés Leal" collection by favoring color.
1622 -1690 · Seville, Cordoba and baroque Santa Caridad
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1622 -1690 · Seville, Cordoba and baroque Santa Caridad
Juan de Valdés Leal was born in Seville in 1622 and spent part of his artistic youth in Cordoba, where the example of Antonio del Castillo nourished his naturalism. His first known signed work dates from 1647. Installed permanently in Seville in 1656, he became Murillo's great rival and participated with him in the founding of the Drawing Academy in 1660, of which he was president in 1663. Painter, designer, engraver and designer of ephemeral decorations, Valdés Leal developed a nervous baroque, made of shortcuts, sudden gestures, sharp lights and a sometimes quick and busy touch. His famous vanities of the Church of Santa Caridad, In ictu oculi and Finis gloriae mundi, recall the fragility of power and the body with striking frankness. Yet his work is not reduced to the macabre: Pietà, Assumption and cycles of saints reveal a rich color, sumptuous architecture and great narrative power. Linked to the Brotherhood of Charity from 1667, he worked tirelessly for Sevillian religious institutions until his death in 1690. The "Juan de Valdés Leal" selection notably compared Pietà and Assumption of the Virgin. His reading favors color.
Valdés Leal paints like a baroque orator: the light strikes, the gesture carries and each image recalls the urgency of time.
Course & style
Naturalist training, conventual commissions and first signatures established a dramatic personality. This milestone sheds light on the "Juan de Valdés Leal" collection by favoring color.
Rivalry with Murillo, foundation of the drawing school and major cycles affirm movement and color.
Vanities, decorations, engravings and altarpieces bring Sevillian baroque to an exceptional moral intensity.
Diagonals, twists and drapes circulate energy throughout the composition. This line guides a reading of "Juan de Valdés Leal" centered on color.
Vivid contrasts isolate body and gestures like the accents of passionate speech.
A charged and free touch gives fabrics, clouds and architecture an immediate vibration.
Holy, vanity and heavenly vision recall the brevity of life and the necessity of salvation.
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The body of Christ, the hands and the gazes concentrate pain in a dense and deeply human group.
Landmark work by Juan de Valdés Leal. Reading "Juan de Valdés Leal" through color.Clouds, angels and fabrics lead the Marian figure in a dazzling vertical movement.
Landmark work by Juan de Valdés LealThe weight of the cross and the thrust of the figures give the story immediate physical tension.
Landmark work by Juan de Valdés LealArchitecture, contradictory gestures and light organize the tumult of a debate around the central figure.
Landmark work by Juan de Valdés LealDiagonals, twists and drapes circulate energy throughout the composition. This line guides a reading of "Juan de Valdés Leal" centered on color.
Reading key for Juan de Valdés LealVivid contrasts isolate body and gestures like the accents of passionate speech.
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