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St Rosa of Lima - Nationalmuseum - 19845
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In 1617 a thirty-one-year-old woman, born as Isabel Flores y de Oliva, died in her hometown Lima in Peru. Her life had been filled with prayer, penitence, and hard work among the poor. She was sainted by the pope in 1671 as Rosa of Lima. In South America there is an extensive cult around Saint Rosa. She is usually depicted in a nun’s habit and with a crown of roses or, as in this painting, with a crown of thorns on her head. The painting is a seventeenth-century copy of a lost original by the Spanish artist Murillo. Svenska: År 1617 dog en 31-årig kvinna, född som Isabel Flores y de Oliva, i sin hemstad Lima i Peru. Hennes liv hade varit uppfyllt av bön, botgöring och hårt arbete bland de fattiga. Som Rosa av Lima blev hon 1671 helgonförklarad av påven. I Sydamerika finns en omfattande kult kring den heliga Rosa. Hon brukar framställas i nunnedräkt och med en rosenkrans eller, som i denna målning, en törnekrona på huvudet. Bilden är en 1600-talskopia av ett försvunnet original av den spanske konstnären Murillo. Kopia Originalet i spansk privatägo
By the last decades of the 16th century, the refined Mannerism style had ceased to be an effective means of religious art expression. Catholic Church fought against Protestant Reformation to re-establish its dominance in European art by infusing Renaissance aesthetics enhanced by a new exuberant extravagance and penchant for the ornate. The new style was coined Baroque and roughly coincides with the 17th century. Baroque emphasizes dramatic motion, clear, easily interpreted grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, dynamism, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and details, and often defined as being bizarre, or uneven. The term Baroque likely derived from the Italian word barocco, used by earlier scholars to name an obstacle in schematic logic to denote a contorted idea or involuted process of thought. Another possible source is the Portuguese word barroco (Spanish barrueco), used to describe an irregular or imperfectly shaped pearl, and this usage still survives in the jeweler’s term baroque pearl. Baroque spread across Europe led by the Pope in Rome and powerful religious orders as well as Catholic monarchs to Northern Italy, France, Spain, Flanders, Portugal, Austria, southern Germany, and colonial South America.
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