Alonso Vázquez (1565 – c. 1608) was a Spanish
sculptor
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and
painter of the
Renaissance
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period.
Vázquez was born in
Ronda
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, and learned painting in the school of
Arfian at
Seville
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. He passed through the usual
apprenticeship
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"sargas" (inexpensive paintings on rough canvas) leading to frescoes and oils on wood panels. For the Cathedral and the convents of St. Francis and St. Paul, he painted a variety of works, no longer extant. He painted a series of canvases on the ''Life of St. Raymond'', for the cloister of the friars of the Order of Mercy. He was also one of the artists chosen by the city of
Seville
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to paint the great
catafalque
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erected in the Cathedral at the time of public mourning for the death of
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* Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438-1497)
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.
Vázquez died either in Seville or in Mexico, probably about the middle of the reign of
Philip III.
References
External links
Alonso Vázquez on artnet
16th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish Renaissance painters
1565 births
1608 deaths
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