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andalusian life, pilgrimage, horseback riding, spanish culture, costumbrismo, folk tradition, procession

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Pilgrimage

This painting depicts a scene from the popular Our Lady of the Dew pilgrimage. In the foreground, along a dirt track a couple on horseback follows a wagon decorated with Spanish flags, sashes and ribbons, in which five girls sit and sing as they move to the sound of the guitar one is playing. The young women wear Andalusian silk dresses and shawls of vivid colours and their hair is adorned with carnations. Particularly striking is the dynamism in their movements, in contrast with the serenity of the couple on horseback. The man is dressed in the typical dark Andalusian suit known as the

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