Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa (1634 – 16 January 1693) was a Spanish painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period.
Born in
Madrid
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, he became the son-in-law and pupil of the painter
Juan de Arellano. He is known as a painter of flowers and
still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
, known as ''
bodegones''. He also painted scenography for performances at the theater of Buen Retiro, for which he was named painter of the King without salary in January 1689. He died after falling from a scaffold used to paint the ceiling of the palace of Monteleon, and was buried in the church of San Ildefonso.
Works
*''Guirnalda de San Francisco de Borja' (c. 1675-80)
*''Basket of Flowers'' (c.1675-1685)
*''Garland of Flowers with St. Anthony of Padua'' (1689)
*''Vase of Flowers'' (two paintings) (c. 1690)
*''the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel'' (1690)
References
*
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 ...
, ''
'', 1724, first English translation, 1739, p. 130
*
*Agulló Cobo, Mercedes (1998). ''Una familia de pintores: los Arellano, en Juan de Arellano 1614-1676'' (''A Family of Painters: Arellano''). Madrid, commissioned by A. E. Pérez Sánchez. .
*Gutiérrez Pastor, Ismael, ''Géneros y colaboraciones en la pintura madrileña del siglo XVII. A propósito de los lienzos de Bartolomé Pérez en el retablo mayor de Santa María de Gumiel de Mercado (Burgos)'', Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte (UAM), vol XVIII, 2006, p. 107-123.
*Museo del Prado (1995). L''a belleza de lo real. Floreros y bodegones en el Museo del Prado 1600-1800.'' Madrid, Publyco S.A. .
External links
* http://www.artnet.com/artist/555985/bartolome-perez.html
Biography at the Musel del Prado Online Encyclopedia
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1634 births
1693 deaths
Artists from Madrid
17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
Spanish Baroque painters
Spanish bodegón painters