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In 1897, the artist exhibited Pilgrimage of El Rocío in the Sala Dante in Rome, as well as in the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Madrid that same year, before it was shown in the Munich and Vienna International Exhibitions one year later, where it was awarded several gold medals. This painting continued its international journey after being hired by a Polish businessman who exhibited it i
Painted in Rome as an exercise in fulfilment of the requirements of a residential grant, which explains the marked academicism of the nude figure of Adam, Viniegra’s canvas presents the image of Eve as the bringer of original sin and the cause of mankind’s expulsion from Paradise. The attention is focused on her copious flowing hair, linked by tradition to feminine seduction, which was still regar
