Valencian school, around 1600. School of JUAN DE JUANES (Valencia, around 1507 - Bocairente, Valencia, 1579)."The Coronation of the Virgin".Oil on canvas. Relined painting.Measurements: 144 x 105 cm; 163 x 123 cm (frame).This work, formerly attributed to the painter Vicente Requena El Viejo, continues the stylistic guidelines that made the school of Juan de Juanes one of the most popular of the Spanish Renaissance. The artist presents us with the theme of the Coronation of the Virgin, one of the privileged iconographies during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Here, the axis of compositional symmetry is presided over by the Crown and the figure of Mary, majestically enthroned, flanked by two little angels that crown her. Because of its formal and technical characteristics we can relate this work to the school of Juan de Juanes, the name by which Vicente Juan Macip, son of Juan Macip and key painter of the Spanish Renaissance, is known. He trained with his father, and in 1534 he was commissioned alone to paint the altarpiece of St. Eloy in the church of Santa Catalina, his first autograph work. It is conjectured whether Juanes studied in Italy, as his work is clearly influenced by that school, especially Sebastiano del Piombo. However, historians tend to think that he never left Spain and that, like his father, he absorbed these influences by observing first hand the Italian paintings that arrived in the Kingdom of Valencia. He was the most important painter of Valencian painting of his time, and although he was mainly dedicated to religious painting, he also painted notable portraits such as that of Alfonso V of Aragon. Juan de Juanes is currently represented in the Prado Museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, the Fine Arts Museum of Valencia, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and other important collections.