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This Italian painter had a fecund and influential career at court in Madrid, especially with religious works whose initial Counter-Reformation classicism evolved towards a sometimes highly intense naturalism. He arrived at San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 1585 with his brother, Bartolomé, who was Federico Zuccaro's assistant and young Vicente's teacher. In 1599, he took part in the decorations for Qu
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
Of this Italian painter, sculptor and architect, Ceán Bermúdez observed: "Few painters from Italy have been as useful for the fine arts in Spain as Carducho." And indeed, he is a key figure for understanding the development of painting at the Spanish court at the beginning of the 17th century. This is due not so much to his work as to the school of artists that trained under him, beginning with h
Nothing is known of this Flemish-born Spanish painter's early training. The biographer of Spanish painters, Palomino, affirmed that he was born in Spain, but this was disproved by his testament, which lists his place of birth as the Flemish city of Antwerp. There are also documents in which he himself declares that he was trained in Flanders, where "he practiced his trade for many years." He has h
While this Spanish painter and theorist's painting was never outstanding, his theories reveal the richness of that medium and the singularity of the personnages he had the opportunity to meet, reflecting the interests of his entire period's reflections on art. Pacheco studied with the otherwise unknown teacher Luis Fernández between 1580 and 1585, following mannerist trends from Italy and Flanders
This artist was active in Valencia during the last third of the 16h century. Beginning in 1563 various of his works are mentioned in documents that already refer to him as a "painter." Around 1585, he was working with his brother and fellow painter, Martín, in the province of Zaragoza and in 1590, he was contracted to make an Altarpiece of Saint Leonard for the convent church of La Paridad in Vale