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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 [+]
According to his mentor, the painter and treatise writer Karel van Mander (1548–1606), he began his training with his father Anthonis Jansz. Wtewael, a glassmaker in Utrecht, and continued with the pa [+]
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 [+]
Little knowledge we have about this Dutch painter who settled in Italy. The first documentary reference preserved about Stom is the parish family book of 1630 and 1631 of the Roman church of San Nicol [+]
The artist was born in a small town in the Duchy of Lorraine, an independent territory in the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, a century and a half before it became part of France. A baker's son, he is doc [+]
He came from a wealthy family. His artistic training remains totally unknown. A document from 1620 already cites him as a painter in Haarlem. From 1631 onwards, he is documented in the book of the Haa [+]
Little is known about his life with certainty. From a document dated 29 September 1640, in which the painter states that he was forty-one years old, it can be presumed that he was born between 1596 an [+]
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 [+]
Alonso Cano is unique among 17th-century Spanish artists as he was mainly a draftsman and designer, but was equally successful as an architect, sculptor and painter.His earliest experience with the ar [+]
Jan Brueghel the Younger was an independent artist of great talent, who has been underappreciated in historiography at times. He was the eldest son of Jan ‘Velvet’ Brueghel and thus the grandson of Pi [+]
He was a history painter, a portraitist and a landscape artist. There is no information about his childhood in Amsterdan. He moved to Haarlem prior to 1617, since that year he had been accepted in the [+]