The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist (La sagrada familia con San Juan Bautista)  1700

The depiction of the holy family with Saint John the Baptist is a common subject of devotional painting in Europe and the Americas. Here the holy family is set against a nocturnal landscape illuminated by the profusion of gold that radiates from the Virgin’s head. The work is endowed with a great sense of dynamism, but also intimacy and tenderness meant to instill devotion...