Valencia City Council has today presented the new exhibition bet for this year: José Vergara Gimeno (1726-1799). Paint, fame and fortune, organized on the occasion of the third centenary of the birth of the famous Valencian painter and available until the next one 6 of September aThe City Museum. Through a careful selection of canvases, sketches and drawings, the exhibition offers a tour of the work of one of the great masters of the 18th century, in which the paper stands out that he had in the creation of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos and in the consolidation of artistic academicism in Valencia. In concrete terms, the sample gathers a total of 85 works by institutions such as the City Museum, the House Museum Benlliure, the Fine Arts Museum of Valencia, the Zaragoza Museum, the Bancaja Foundation, the Prado National Museum or the National Archaeological Museum, as well as from several private collections.
The exhibition offers a complete and updated view of the work of José Vergara, contextualizing his production in the artistic framework, social and intellectual of his time. Also, the exhibition explores the stylistic evolution of the artist: from late Baroque dynamism to neoclassical serenity, with special attention to the use of color, in the composition and in the ability to narrate sacred scenes with emotion and with technical rigor. The articulation of the exhibition takes place through four of the eight large canvases of the old Chapel of Santa Rosa de Lima, made by José Vergara, under the patronage of the Archbishop Mayoral, as part of the decoration of the Kingiat the House of Education, educational institution founded in the 18th century and currently the headquarters of Valencia City Council.
