When the «worldly» modifies the poetic; another view of the female figure in the painting of Alonso Cano

Entre las señas de identidad de la paleta de Cano está la singularidad con que da vida a sus planteamientos figurativos, paradigmas de culto a la belleza desde la poética. Las imágenes de la mujer son depositarias de las mejores experiencias de ese sentimiento que satura sus lienzos, desde las primeras creaciones hispalenses a las últimas en Granada y Málaga. La novedad del trabajo radica en descubrir otro modelo de mujer en algunas obras del maestro; una imagen femenina despojada de lirismo, creada desde una vivencia naturalista controlada pero auténtica, cercana a lo cotidiano; una mujer más terrenal y mundana.Among the characteristic features of the works of Alonso Cano is the way in which he gives life to his figures, which are paradigmatic in their poetic representation of beauty. The female figures are the finest representations of this “world-view” which imbues his paintings, from those of his first period in Seville to the last works in Granada and Málaga. The main contribution of this article is the discovery of another type of female figure present in some of his works: this figure is quite without lyrical tones and has been created from the vivid experience of nature, controlled, but authentic at the same time, near to everyday experience, a more earthy and mundane female