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Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
He was born into a Florentine family inMadrid
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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 Alessandro Allori
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
Biography
In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and trai ...
and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador Luis de Requesens. 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 fro ...
. He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for the Escorial
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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 '' Judgment of Solomon'' in the vault. He was appointed Painter to the King in August 1612. Most of his works were completed in Madrid. Along with Vincenzo Carducci he painted the chapel of Our Lady del Sagrario in Toledo
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, and the canvases of the Retablo Mayor del Monasterio de Guadalupe
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. He was awarded 11,000 ''reales'' for a large historical canvas on the ''History of Agamemnon
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'' (now lost). Among his pupils are Luis Fernández and the barrister Valpuesta.
He opposed a fee proposed to extend the ''alcabala'' to painters.
The Prado Museum owns an ensemble of paintings and drawings by Caxés, and also at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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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