Bartolomé de Cárdenas (c. 1575–1628) was a Portuguese painter who worked in Spain.

Life

According to

Antonio Palomino Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of ''El Museo pictórico y escala óptica'', which contains a large amount of important biographical mate ...

, Cardenas was a native of Portugal, who, while still very young, went to Madrid, where he became the pupil of

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, and achieved a deservedly high reputation. He painted most of the cloisters of the convent of Nuestra Senora de Atocha, at Madrid. In the later part of his life he went to

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, where he painted many altar-pieces, and decorated the cloisters of the convent of San Pablo. He died at Valladolid in 1606.

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* 16th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 17th-century Spanish painters Year of birth unknown 1628 deaths Year of birth uncertain {{Spain-painter-stub