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Cleveland Museum of Art170429portraitBartolomé Pérez (Spanish, 1634–1693)c. 1680CC0cma sacred-art flora-fauna sacred art flora fauna virgin mary jesus saints baroque religious art painting oil on panel angels halo gold red 17th century catholic devotion italian art archway kneeling our lady good counselBartolomé Pérez (Spanish, 1634–1693) c. 1680 Spain oil on copper Painting European ReligiousSacred & Devotional The Living World
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Our Lady of Good Counsel by Bartolomé Pérez (Spanish, 1634–1693) (c. 1680). Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.5
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This painting loosely and inventively depicts an actual chapel in the former Jesuit Imperial College in Madrid, which housed a Madonna and Child in gilded and painted wood, a focus of popular devotion. Pérez made temporary decorations for the Spanish court, none of which survive, but the fanciful architecture, curiously inverted obelisks, fruits and flowers, and pastel colors all stem from this side of his work. By representing a polychrome sculpture in two dimensions, Pérez further blurred boundaries between painting and sculpture. This intersection of the spiritual and the real worlds was important in Spanish art of the 1600s.
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A baroque painting depicts the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, surrounded by angels and flanked by two kneeling saints.
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