JOSE DE RIBERA - La Mujer Barbuda (Obras Maestras de la Pintura Universal)

To understand the history of humanity, we are compelled to understand culture and art, which are, in reality, the collective and individual expression of a society and its members. Among the numerous disciplines that comprise art itself, we will focus on one of the oldest, which has been present throughout the entire evolutionary process of humankind: painting. We can define painting as the art of reproducing a fact or person, real or imaginary, through color and form. Painting is one of the artistic expressions in which the desire to reproduce the interrelationship between human beings and nature was first manifested, along with the attempt to understand and master it. To study the history of painting worldwide, it is necessary to do so through the different artistic styles that have always been linked to the various historical periods of humanity. From cave paintings to the marvelous world of Impressionism and Symbolism in the 20th century. But without ever forgetting the artist and the world that surrounds them.