Early death put an end to the career of this artist hired by Philip II to depict on canvas the Counterreformation's proposals for devotional images—a subject that greatly concerned the monarch during [+]
He probably worked at Cornelis Buys's workshop in Antwerp before moving to Portugal, where his work, primarily portraiture, is documented at the court between 1551 and 1573. There, he continued to pai [+]
After a period of training with his father, Bartholomeus de Momper, he joined the painters’ Guild of Saint Luke of his city around 1581. In 1594, he collaborated with Cornelis Floris on the decoration [+]
He was born to a family of Italian artists. His father, Fabricio, was one of the painters who came to Spain to work at El Escorial and later married a Spanish woman. His grandfather, Giovanni Battista [+]
Luca Cambiaso was the most celebrated Mannerist painter of the Genoese school, and the inventor of many large-scale fresco decorations in both palaces and churches in the city. As a draftsman, he is c [+]
Giovanni Battista Castello began his career as a goldsmith's apprentice in the workshop of his father, specializing from the beginning as a painter of miniatures. Later Castello became the associate a [+]