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BERNARDO LORENTE GERMÁN (Seville, 1685 - 1757). "The Divine Shepherdess". Paint on canvas. Measurements: 217 x 172 cm; 243 x 196 cm (frame). Attach study. The singular dedication of the Virgin Mary as Divine Shepherdess was a genre that was born in Andalusia in the early eighteenth century, and from there spread to other countries, with Bernardo Lorente Germán being one of its most prominent exponents. In Seville "the painter of the Shepherdesses" was known for as many versions as he made and for such good fortune they achieved. Here we are faced with an archetypal representation of the subject, in which Maria carries a rose in her left hand and caresses one of the sheep with her right, while her absent gaze delves into omens and mystical thoughts. The first lying lamb also holds a rose in its mouth. Archangel Saint Michael comes down from heaven, in a cottony break of glory, to defend one of the sheep, which is being caught by a wolf. Twelve stars nimban the Marian head, and her majestic body as well as sweet appears sculpted by a silver light that envelops everything in a supernatural atmosphere. Characteristic of this late-baroque painter is the conjugation of this ability to move us to the miracle as well as a naturalistic attention to capturing details of vegetation and the almost human expressions of animals, with skewed and moving looks, knowing they are vulnerable. . Bernardo Lorente Germán began his training at the hands of his father, also a painter, and then studied with Cristóbal López. After completing his apprenticeship, he was so superior to his teachers and became so renowned that, when he traveled to Madrid, he was commissioned with a portrait of the infant Don Felipe.This work was so well received that Queen Elizabeth de Farnesio gave her as a token of gratitude a series of prints by the French painter Charles Le Brun. He was then proposed to be the king's painter but Lorente rejected the position because he did not want to be away from Seville. He was named an individual of merit by the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1756. He was also the main portraitist of the Spanish aristocracy, with works that show the prevailing French taste at that time, which coexist with others clearly indebted to Murillo, whose cottony shapes and pastel colors , on the other hand, beautiful, agreed perfectly with the matter of which Ceán Bermúdez makes Lorente Germán, the Divina Pastora, creator. His best-known works are preserved in the Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera, and are spread over numerous churches in Úbeda and Baeza, as well as in the Jaén Cathedral, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Fine Arts Museum in Seville. He also made still lifes and genre scenes, and became an accomplished master of the trompe l'oeil genre.

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