The exhibition, organized by the Vice-Ministry for Culture and Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands and with the collaboration of AC/E, is part of the program of events commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of the artist Juan de Miranda on July 13. Throughout 2023 and 2024, different initiatives have been organized that aim to bring the figure of the artist and his time closer to the new generations and that range from didactic proposals for schoolchildren to conferences for specialists, through concerts and exhibitions.
Juan Ventura de Miranda Sejas y Guerra (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1723-Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1805) was one of the greatest exponents of Canarian art of the Modern era, with his work influenced by the rich Baroque past, but with a clear effort at renewal, not only did he manage to oxygenate painting on the islands, but his proposals managed to connect with a significant part of Spanish art of that period. Juan de Miranda felt to a great extent influenced by the rich baroque past that he discovered in the Iberian Peninsula, at the same time that he strove to renew it. Taking into account that his professional career developed both on the Peninsula and in the Canary Islands.
