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This Spanish painter and engraver was an exact contemporary of Murillo as well as his greatest rival as a painter in Seville at that time. The two have often been compared on the rather artificial bas [+]
Following the death of his father and teacher, Francisco López Caro, he moved to Madrid where, according to Palomino, he studied with Alonso Cano. In Saint Francis of Assisi in the Porziuncola with t [+]
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 [+]
He must have been quite young when he arrived in Madrid and became a disciple of Carreño, as he is mentioned as a "master painter" living in Carreño's house in 1666. Among his very few known works are [+]
On his arrival in Genoa in c. 1605, Benso sought the protection of Gian Carlo Doria, in whose household he found lodgings. On Doria's recommendation, Benso was apprenticed to Giovanni Battista Paggi ( [+]