Bartolomé Román (c. 1587 – 1647) was a Spanish

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painter known for his series of

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Early life and career

Born in

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, he was a disciple of

Vincenzo Carducci Vincenzio Carduccio (in Spanish, sometimes ''Vicencio'' or Vicente Carducho; 1576 or 1578–1638) was an Italian painter who spent his career in Spain. Biography He was born in Florence, and was trained as a painter by his brother Ba ...

, according to information provided by the art historian

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 ...

. The first canvas hand signed by Román, currently at the

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, dated 1616. Three years later is a document that promised to produce a copy of a picture that he gave at the time of signature, which reveals both Román and Carducci securing the principals and, in the case of Román and other minor painters, recorded dependence of others, as seen also in some of his most famous works. In 1628 he signed the large canvas of the ''Parable of the Wedding'' for the sacristy of the

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, which Palomino notes the influence of

Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of th ...

, established in Madrid shortly before. In the same monastery Madrid remains a painting of ''El Salvador'', in the past attributed to Carducci, very close to another stored in the

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, in which Christ appears in a blue tunic dress. From 1629 there is abundant documentary evidence relating to the painter and the paintings signed by him. A year later Román worked for the

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, in 1634 intervened with other painters in the complex litigation that painters from Madrid faced questions regarding the dignity of the office, and in 1639 was reviewed by the

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. In 1644 he signed the ''Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew'' in the Carmelite convent of Calahorra (now lost). In May 1647 he made his will, which shows that the painter had lived in a struggling economic situation, he noted his wife, Mary of Thebes, but did not provide the wedding day. According to Palomino, Román was later the teacher of

Juan Carreño de Miranda Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Avilés in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, ...

References

* Vicente Carducho Paular, author Werner Beutler, 1998, Locher Verlag, Köln. This work has been completed with a pamphlet by the same author, The return of Vicente Carducho to The Paular, published in 2006 in Spanish and German. * "The Carthusians of Carducho return to The Paular" (in Spanish). Museo Nacional del Prado (28/07/2011). Retrieved on 28/07/2011. 1587 births 1647 deaths 16th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish Baroque painters {{spain-painter-stub