École Européene (XX) - Princeps Pictorum

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Signed and dated.

- That gaze Velázquez sends us from the depths of his self-portrait, suspended in time like a beacon of indescribable melancholy, becomes the sacred refuge to which we go on a pilgrimage to Valencia seeking the consolation of an intimate and silent confession with the supreme master of brushes. Before that scrutinizing and wise eye, which seems to judge our modern wanderings with infinite clemency, the spirit finds a truce in absolute beauty, a silent dialogue where genius strips away all rhetoric to offer us, through shadow and painted flesh, the highest and most sorrowful communion of art.

- Image dimensions without frame: 32 x 40 cm / 44 x 52 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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