Artist: Mariano Vargas

Fine art paper, size 77x100cm, edition of 7 (+ 2 A.P.).

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Inspired by Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs (Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of her sisters) is a painting by an unknown artist dated c. 1594. It is in the Louvre in Paris and is usually thought to be the work of a painter from the Fontainebleau School.

Mariano Vargas (born in San Fernando, lives and works in Spain) discovered the art and the woman as a child, thanks to the great Renaissance painters. While his brothers were reading comics, he would spend hours reading the art books that his grandfather used to collect. Thus, his imagination became enriched by those women with white skin and reddish hair, sometimes modest and other times free in their nudity.

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As an adolescent, he would see Venus in the women around him. He started painting them, first taking photos of the girls that inspired him and then transporting them into his world by painting them. His mind bustled and painting could no longer satisfy his soul’s creative needs. It was then that he came across photography as a means of expressing his inner world, allowing the protagonists to have real skin.