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Turgut Reis landing on Malta by Eugenio Caxes 1575 1634

Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the

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period.

Biography

He was born into a Florentine family in

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, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father, Patricio, was a disciple of

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and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador

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. Caxés painted in the royal palaces of King

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

. He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for the

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, who died in a fall from a scaffold. Caxés was commissioned by the administration of King Philip III to decorate the room for royal audiences in Madrid, where he painted a ''

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'' in the vault. He was appointed Painter to the King in August 1612. Most of his works were completed in Madrid. Along with

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he painted the chapel of Our Lady del Sagrario in Toledo, and the canvases of the Retablo Mayor del Monasterio de Guadalupe. He was awarded 11,000 ''reales'' for a large historical canvas on the ''History of

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'' (now lost). Among his pupils are

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and the barrister Valpuesta. He opposed a fee proposed to extend the ''alcabala'' to painters. The

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owns an ensemble of paintings and drawings by Caxés, and also at the

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acad ...

another religious work ''Embrace at the Golden Gate'' can be seen''.''

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caxes, Eugenio 1574 births 1634 deaths Artists from Madrid 16th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish Baroque painters