There was a time when it was most valued honor that personal security; a time in which abounded offenses and duels... Ironically, it was a time when picaresque and common crimes were daily... It was a time of religious fervor and even intolerance, but at the same time was the age of rationalism and Cartesianism... Certainly a time of contrasts...
For the picture I tried to mimic the tenebrism style and the chiaroscuro own of the painting Sevillian School (unsuccessfully, I think)
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