11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 46

Florentine school circa 1700, circle of P. Dandini
Saint Cecilia

Oil on canvas
25 1/4 X 20 7/8 IN. 64 X 53 CM
Private Collection

In the sixteenth century when Spain became a world power with vast possessions and sources of wealth in the New World, as well as possessions dotted about Europe, it might have been expected that a vigorous national school of painting would emerge, transforming the somewhat tentative or imitative character that painting in Spain had shown up to then…

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