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Saint Charles Borromeo and the Allegory of the Arts (San Carlos Borromeo y la alegoría de las artes)
Attributed to Rafael Gutiérrez Mexican
Not on view
Rafael Joaquín Gutiérrez, who was a member of the faculty of the Royal Academy of San Carlos, created this allegory to mark the academy’s second awards ceremony, which took place annually on November 4, the feast day of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538–1584). Thereafter, the distribution of academic prizes took place in front of this painting, in which the saint is surrounded by allegorical figures representing the arts. The young boy wearing a feathered headdress (a personification of America) and holding the portrait of King Charles III stands for the academy’s student body, poised to receive the royal prize.
Rafael Joaquín Gutiérrez, que estuvo vinculado con los pintores decanos de la generación anterior, se incorporó al cuerpo docente de la Real Academia de San Carlos y legó el retrato de Juan Rodríguez Juárez, que se muestra en esta sala, a la nueva institución.
Gutiérrez ejecutó esta alegoría para dar marco a la segunda ceremonia de premiación de la Academia, ceremonia que tendría lugar cada 4 de noviembre ante esta pintura de san Carlos Borromeo (1538–1584). El santo aparece rodeado por personificaciones de las artes liberales. El niño empenachado que sostiene el retrato de Carlos III (imagen estereotípica de América), representa a los estudiantes de la Academia, dispuestos a recibir el "premio real".
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