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Abordamos el estudio de la Virgen del Lucero de Alonso Cano, analizando sus valores plásticos, pictóricos e iconográficos, pero también su proceso creativo, su técnica de ejecución y los materiales artísticos utilizados. Análisis que nos ha permitido reivindicar la autoría de Alonso Cano frente a Wethey, el máximo estudioso del artista, que la consideraba una realización mediocre de taller. Situamos la obra en el contexto de las demandas artísticas de la Iglesia contrarreformista, en un proceso de democratización de la meditación que, promovida ya por la Devotio Moderna, alcanzaría su apogeo con los Ejercicios Espirituales de Ignacio de Loyola. ; In this paper we study the 'Virgen del Lucero' by Alonso Cano through the analysis of its artistic, pictorial and iconographic values, its creative process, its technical execution and the artistic materials used. These analyses allow us to claim its authorship to Alonso Cano against the point of view of Wethey, the top expert in the artist, who considered it a mediocre workshop painting. We place the work in the context of Counter-Reformation artistic demands and the democratization of meditation, which had been promoted by the devotio moderna and reached its apogee with the Spiritual Exercises by Ignatius of Loyola.

Faced with the need to adjust public pension systems to meet changing demographic, economic and social conditions, most developed countries have created government reserve funds to ensure macroeconomic sustainability. This paper aims to study the importance that this reserve fund plays in the sustainability of the Spanish public pension system. Using data for the 2000 to 2019 period (20 observations) on the main variables impacting on the system, we calculate probabilities and other indicators of its unsustainability in relation to the reserve fund. Our model accurately reflects certain aspects of the data, and suggests that the probability of unsustainability is inversely associated with the size of the reserve fund, but that this relation is moderated by the heterogeneity of the members of the pension system. Moreover, the probability of unsustainability increases in line with the pension system deficit, the time elapsed until unsustainability is reached is shorter when the Reserve Fund balance falls, and the size of this fund at which the system becomes unsustainable diminishes with the probability of unsustainability.