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Miniaturist, painter and portrait draftsman, active in Paris between 1781 - 1798 ( (E. Bénézit, Dictionaire, 1976, v. 4, p. 461; y http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=124811)
He descends from a family of artists who moved to Milan in 1587. The first documentary record of his work is the payment for a sculptural work in the cathedral of Milan in 1590. His first dated painting is the Pietà in Santa Maria de San Celso in Milan from 1604, around which time he worked alongside Cerano. It is particularly difficult to determine which of the two was a pioneer in achieving such
Goya was born unexpectedly in his mother’s birthplace, Fuendetodos. His parents, Braulio José Goya, a gilder; and Gracia Lucientes, from a family of wealthy farmers, actually lived in Zaragoza, where they had married in 1736. Francisco was the fourth of six siblings: Rita (1737), Tomás (1739), who was also a gilder and is sometimes mentioned as a painter; Jacinta (1743), Mariano (1750), who died i
During his life, Luca Giordano enjoyed a popularity in both Italy and Spain that plummeted after his death, due to two prejudices that have lasted until quite recently. The first was an association of his surprising speed as a painter with the idea that his work was somehow superficial, an accusation constantly leveled at him by advocates of the Greco-Roman aesthetic. The second stemmed from his s