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Miguel de Pret was a Spanish painter of Flemish origin specialized in still lifes. His biography can be reconstructed on the basis of his death certificate, his will and the documents generated for hi [+]
This painter, whose biography is unknown, may have been mainly active during the first half of the 17th century in Madrid. His name is cited in relation to other Madrid painters in documents dated 162 [+]
Born in Seville, Velázquez adopted his mothers surname, as was common in Andalusia, signing “Diego Velázquez” or “Diego de Silva Velázquez". He studied painting and worked professionally in his native [+]
A student of Luca Cambiaso (1527-85) from around the late 1560s, they both moved to Spain in 1583, when the master accepted an invitation to work for Philip II. Although Cambiaso died shortly thereaft [+]
Monrealese trained first with his father, Pietro Antonio Novell (1568-1625), and subsequently, in 1618, with Vito Carrera (1555-1623) in Palermo. His earliest dated work, painted in 1626, depicts St. [+]
The most important early-17th-century Flemish painter after Rubens, Van Dyck was considered Rubens’ equal by the 18th century. Born in Antwerp, the Spanish Netherlands’ main mercantile and cultural ce [+]
Born to a modest painter of the same name, he appeared in Madrid around 1641, when he entered the workshop of Carreño de Miranda and became one of his most promising disciples. In fact, he probably co [+]
His father, Domenico Camilo, was a Florentine painter who participated in the decoration of the monastery at El Escorial. Following Domenico's death, his widow married Pedro de las Cuevas, a painter f [+]
Flemish painter and draftsman, he was for long active in Italy. In 1556-1557, he is recorded in Antwerp as the pupil of the landscape painter Kerstiaen van Queboom (1515-1578). He arrived in Bologna i [+]