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This artist of Catalan origin received his early training in El Escorial, where he was surrounded by Spanish and Italian artists and their works and was able to follow their most significant innovations. He thus developed an eclectic style that combined Cincinato's rhetoric with Tibaldi's daring foreshortening and Bartolomé Carducho's gravity with Navarrete's dramatic approach, as well as the chia
Juan de Juanes was one of the most important painters of the Spanish Renaissance. He dominated Valencian circles in the mid 16th century, although there is still some discussion as to whether certain works were painted by him or by his father, Juan Vicente Masip, who was already active in 1493 and was unquestionably one of the great Valencian painters of the early sixteenth century. Juanes began w
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 in c. 1560, where he was to remain for the remainder of his career, except for a period in Rome in 1572-1575. On his arrival in Bologna, he entered the workshop of Prospero Fontana (1512-1597), leaving