CADIX BEST-OF

Cadiz Best-of ➽ DISCOVER a selection of the best of Cadiz: unusual, everyday, practical, gourmet, language and expressions.

La Roldana, Spain's first Baroque sculptress

Luisa Roldán, the eminent. Luisa Roldán was born in 1652, during the Counter-Reformation. This was the century of the Spanish Baroque, when painting had to be at the service of religion, in reaction to Protestants who rejected the authority of the Pope.painting and sculpture had to humanize religious representations.to be naturalistic, with larger-than-life physiques that took on a new meaning.

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