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Introduction
As Ortega y Gasset stated, man is himself and his
circumstance. Quoting another famous statement we can recall
that "men are the product of their works". This is true,
nobody and nothing can be developed out of its context and, if
men are the product of their work, we could extrapolate this
concept and say that man's works definitely are the product of
the time they were created.
The economic, social, historical and political circumstances
that surround the life of an artist -whatever his field may
be- condition not only his own individual existence, but also
his artistic production. Thus, we can find periods where
obscurantism or prejudices curtail the artist to express
himself in a certain way or, going to the other extreme,
periods like Renaissance where the free creation of men is
exalted.
It is then through a criterium of singularity that we will
deal with the history of painting in the period that we have
chosen, XIII to XVIII century, and we will set off in an
imaginary travel through that Europe which gave birth, raised
and created the painters that make up our PC pinacotheca,
immersed in the historical entourage they had to live in.