Diego Valentín Díaz Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Diego Valentín Díaz Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 28, 2024
Attributed to DIEGO VALENTÍN DÍAZ (Valladolid, 1586-1660). "Angel appearing to Doña Marina de Escobar". Oil on brass. It presents faults and restorations.
Est: €5,000 - €6,000
Attributed to DIEGO VALENTÍN DÍAZ (Valladolid, 1586-1660). "Angel appearing to Doña Marina de Escobar". Oil on brass. It presents faults and restorations. Measurements: 9.5 x 8 cm. We know that the protagonist of this scene is Doña Marina de Escobar, because there is a very similar work in terms of composition that is currently in the Monastery of the Brigades of Valladolid. In it we see the protagonist dressed with the same habit and the same disposition of the gesture of the hands. However, the angel that accompanies her in this case is more flowery, her clothing being much more complex, detailed and opulent than in the Valladolid cure. Marina de Escobar Montaña (1554 - 1633) was a Spanish Catholic mystic of the Counter-Reformation period. Her mother was Margarita Montaña, daughter of Emperor Charles V's physician. Her father, Diego de Escobar, was a professor of civil and canon law, and for a time governor of Osuna. Limited in her activity due to poor health, she devoted herself to prayer and contemplation under the guidance of her Jesuit confessors and spiritual advisors. Marina had visions of several saints, and during her lifetime she acquired fame as a saintly woman throughout Spain, especially in her hometown of Valladolid. Despite taking a vow of chastity, dedicating her life to prayer and service, and gathering around her a small community of women, Marina never entered a religious order. After a vision in 1615, she worked to found a modified branch of the Brigitine Order, but died before she could join it. She was popularly venerated after her death, and her confessor, Luis de la Puente, collected and prepared accounts of her spiritual experiences. After a long investigation by the Spanish Inquisition, they were published and Marina was declared Venerable. The Marvellous Life of the Venerable Virgin Doña Marina de Escobar, elaborated by Father Luis de la Puente, was published in Madrid in two parts, in 1665 and 1673. It was translated into Latin by the Jesuit M. Hanel, and published in that language in Prague in 1672 and 1688, and in an enlarged edition in Naples in 1690, becoming a very popular reading at the time. Aesthetically the work is close to the postulates of the Valladolid artist Diego Valentín Díaz, who had an artistic training linked to the Mannerist aesthetics. During his time he achieved great notoriety both for his pictorial work and for his great erudition and culture, coming into contact with the most renowned artists of the time such as Pacheco and Velázquez.
Setdart Auction House
Sep. 24, 2024
SPANISH SCHOOL, POSSIBLY VALLISOLETANA (17th century) “Crystal vase with flowers and plums"
Est: €4,500 - €6,000
Oil on canvas. Work stylistically close to the production of Diego Valentin Diaz (1586-1660) Measurements: 71 x 53 cm.
Ansorena
Mar. 07, 2024
DIEGO VALENTÍN DÍAZ (VALLADOLID, 1586-1660)
Est: €40,000 - €50,000
Diego Valentín Díaz (Valladolid, 1586-1660) 'Christ Dressed as a Jesuit Priest Adored by Angels' Oil on canvas. 245 x 205 cm. A beautiful painting by Diego Valentín Díaz, an artist from Valladolid, dated 1653, seven years before his death. Therefore this is one of the artworks he created in full maturity. The painter, born in Valladolid in 1586, is considered 'the most important painter of the Valladolid School in the first half of the 17th century,' as stated by Enrique Valdivieso González, Professor of Art History at the University of Seville, in the 2017 report that comes with the painting in this lot. As the professor explains, 'the technical characteristics of this painter are clearly recognised in the configuration of the anatomy of Christ and also in that of the two angels flanking him, who have kind, sweet, and deeply intimate features. The details of the meticulous embroideries on the angels' tunics also reveal Diego Valentín Díaz's technique, who, in addition to being a painter, was also an excellent polychromist of sculptural images.' This is an iconographic model that he repeated multiple times, with minimal variations (movement of the angels, inclusion of a cartouche at the feet of Christ, inclusion of two donors in prayer, with the nun from the Monastery of Santa Brígida, Marina de Escobar, dictating her visions, etc). This theme was a trend in 17th-century Valladolid, and its success led to prolific production from Navarre to León, passing through Ágreda, Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Medina del Campo, and Alicante. It was even exported to Latin America 'across the seas', where the Jesuits continued their missionary activities. The painting shows a very specific iconography that originates from the mystic from Valladolid, Marina de Escobar (1554-1633), who saw Christ during her raptures and ecstasies, 'in His own face and stature of a perfect man, aged 33 years old [...] and in all this, He represented such authority and majesty that He showed himself to be true God as well as true man' (book I, chapter III, p. 14). The Jesuit fathers themselves, especially their confessor, Father Luis de la Puente, took care to spread the vision through the book, the 'Life of Marina de Escobar' and the sermons preached by the religious order after her death, starting in 1633. This dual condition, human and divine, is defined by the coronation arranged by the cherubs from heaven, surrounding Him, as He is adored by the angels who also served in other visions narrated by Marina de Escobar and also painted by Valentín Díaz. One of the first examples of this subject was the Christ dressed as a Jesuit adored by angels that the artist painted for the church of San Miguel in Valladolid, the former Jesuit college of San Ignacio, circa 1615. Diego Valentín Díaz knew Marina de Escobar personally, and he portrayed her on various occasions. The work highlights the authority of the Catholic priesthood, especially the Jesuit priesthood. The hieraticism of Jesus as a priest does not move the viewer to emotion, and all it conveys is a theological truth intended to inspire devotion to Jesus, the supreme and eternal priest, propagated by the Jesuits and the Bridgettine Mothers founded by Marina de Escobar. He is surrounded by angels in flight and on their knees in adoration and prayer. Those on the left hold flowers and a scroll with the inscription: 'SPICE IN FACIE CHRISTI, TUI PROTECTOR' 1653. (Look upon the face of Christ, your protector). The painting demonstrates skill and mastery of nuances, soft and cool tones, reverent so as not to distract from the composition or the theological message it contains, as well as a wise choice of faces and angels that transport us to Christ as 'true God and true man.'
La Suite Subastas
Sep. 01, 2022
ESCUELA CASTELLANA, S.XVII. CÍRCULO DE DIEGO VALENTÍN DÍAZ. VIRGEN INMACULADA.
Est: €4,800 - €6,000
Escuela castellana, s.XVII. Círculo de Diego Valentín Díaz (Valladolid, 1586-1660) Virgen Inmaculada. Óleo sobre lienzo. Se representa a la Virgen ricamente vestida con un manto que destaca por su gran detallismo. Su rostro está finamente trabajado con los ojos almendrados y la mirada baja. Reentelado. Diego Valentín fue el pintor más completo de la escuela manierista de pintura castellana, se distinguió por el cultivo de casi todos los géneros pictóricos e incluso la policromía de esculturas. La invención de un estilo muy personal le permitió introducir innovaciones en los repertorios iconográficos tradicionales e incluso incorporar una cierta idealización en la recreación de figuras humanas. 120 x 94 cm.
Aletheia Subastas
Jan. 28, 2021
Saenz Diez. Manual de joyeros
Est: -
SAENZ DIEZ, Martín Diego.- "MANUAL DE JOYEROS, con la teórica y práctica para con brevedad sacar la cuenta del valor en que se venden, y compran los diamantes, y demás piedras preciosas, y también el oro y la plata" M.: Antonio de Sancha, 1781. LVI + 711 pgs. + 1 lám. 2 tomos en un vol., con paginación consecutiva. Port. con bello grabado de Cruz. Primera edición. Palau 284348.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Mar. 22, 2018
Diego DIEZ FERRERAS (actif à Valladolid au XVIIe Siècle) La trinité terrestre The Holy terrestrial Trinity, canvas, signed on a piece o
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Diego DIEZ FERRERAS (actif à Valladolid au XVIIe Siècle) La trinité terrestre The Holy terrestrial Trinity, canvas, signed on a piece of paper on the lower center: Diego Diez/de Ferreras, on the back, with chalk: n° 287 491/4 X 49 5/8 IN. € 4,000-6,000 Diego DIEZ FERRERAS (actif à Valladolid au XVIIe Siècle) La trinité terrestre Toile Signée sur un bout de papier en bas au centre : Diego Diez/de Ferreras. Au revers, à la craie : n° 287 Restaurations anciennes 125 x 126 cm.
Tajan
Jun. 22, 2017
Diego DIEZ FERRERAS (actif à Valladolid au XVIIe Siècle)
Est: €6,000 - €8,000
Diego DIEZ FERRERAS (actif à Valladolid au XVIIe Siècle) La Trinité terrestre Toile Restaurations anciennes Signée sur un bout de papier en bas au centre : Diego Diez/de Ferreras. Au revers, à la craie : n° 287 The Terrestrial Holy trinity, canvas, signed on a piece of paper on the lower center : Diego Diez/de Ferreras, on the back, with chalk : n° 287 125 x 126 cm - 49 3/16 X 49 5/8 IN.
Tajan
May. 29, 2014
Attributed to Diego Valentín Díaz Valladolid 1586 - 1660 Penitent Magdalene Oil on canvas In the church of Santa Isabel from Valladol
Est: €900 -
Attributed to Diego Valentín Díaz Valladolid 1586 - 1660 Penitent Magdalene Oil on canvas In the church of Santa Isabel from Valladolid there is another Immaculate by Díaz, of similar aspect 110x94,5 cm Atribuido a Diego Valentín Díaz Valladolid 1586 - 1660 Magdalena penitente Óleo sobre lienzo La iglesia de Santa Isabel de Valladolid conserva una Inmaculada de Díaz de similar fisonomía 110x94,5 cm Zugeschrieben zu Diego Valentín Díaz Valladolid 1586 - 1660 Die Büßerin Magdalena. Öl auf Leinwand. Die Kirche von Santa Isabel de Valladolid bewahrt eine Unbefleckte von Díaz mit ähnlichem Gesichtsausdruck auf. 110x94,5 cm
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