(b Jativa, Valencia, bapt 17 Feb 1591; d Naples, 3 Sept
1652).
Spanish painter and printmaker, active in Italy. He was one of the most
important figures in European painting in the 17th century and one of the major
artists of the Counter-Reformation. Though Spanish, he spent his entire career
in Italy, and his evolution reflected developments in Italian art at that time.
His first works show the influence of northern followers of Caravaggio active in
Rome. He subsequently incorporated elements of Venetian art and, in his last
works, combined all the sensual and colourist opulence of both Venice and
Flanders, creating new and highly personal compositions.
Calvary 1616-18
Oil on canvas
Patronato de Art, Osuna
Sense of Taste
1613-16
Oil on canvas, 117 x 88 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
St Andrew
1630-32
Oil on canvas, 123 x 95 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Archimedes
1630
Oil on canvas, 125 x 81 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Martyrdom of St Philip
1639
Oil on canvas, 234 x 234 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son
1631
Oil on canvas, 196 x 127 cm
Museo Fondación Duque de Lerma, Toledo
The Duel of Isabella de Carazzi and Diambra de Pottinella
1636
Oil on canvas, 235 x 212 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
St Jerome
1637
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 102 cm
Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
St Jerome and the Angel
of the Last
Judgement
1626
Oil on canvas, 262 x 164 cm
Museo e Galleria Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples
The Martyrdom of St Andrew
1628
Oil on canvas, 209 x 183 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
St Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women
1621
Oil on canvas, 180,3 x 231,6 cm
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
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