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Friar Juan Bautista Maíno, or Mayno (October 1581,

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– 1 April 1649, Madrid) was a Spanish

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painter.

Biography

His father was a merchant who sold Milanese fabrics and his mother was a Portuguese noblewoman. Both were at the service of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, who was also the Duchess of Pastrana. Some historians believe that he trained with

El Greco Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...

, but no documentary evidence has been found. It is known for certain that he spent the years 1600 to 1608 in Italy, where he became familiar with, and was influenced by, the works of

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

and his students Orazio Gentileschi,

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and

Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of th ...

. When he returned to Pastrana, he revealed those influences in a " Trinity", painted for the side altar at the . In March 1611, he moved to

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and, the following year, painted an "Altarpiece of the Four Days of Easter" for the Dominicans, which is now at the

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. It is, perhaps, his best known work. Also notable are canvases depicting the " Adoration of the Magi" and the " Adoration of the Shepherds". In June 1613, he entered the Dominican Order and took up residence at the Monastery of San Pedro Mártir. This reduced his artistic activity, although he created other versions of the "Adoration of the Shepherds", one of which is at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. Another may be seen at the Meadows Museum in Dallas. King Philip III called him to his Court in 1620, to teach drawing to his son, the future King

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. At that time, Maíno became a sponsor of the young

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 ...

; choosing him, in a contest, to paint an "Expulsion of the Moors", which helped establish him at court. That painting did not survive the disastrous fire at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid in 1734. He died at the Colegio y convento de Santo Tomás in Madrid. Friar

Juan Rizi Friar Juan Andrés Ricci de Guevara, known as Friar Juan Rizi (1600, Madrid - 29 November 1681, Monte Cassino) was a Spanish Benedictine monk, painter, and architect, in the Baroque style. He also wrote works on theology and geometry and may hav ...

may have been one of his students there.

Selected works

* ''Conversión de San Pablo'' (''Conversion of Saint Paul'') (c. 1614, MNAC, Barcelona) * ''Retablo de San Pedro Mártir de Toledo'' (1612–14,

) * ''Retablo de la Anunciación'' (Museo del Prado) * ''Resurrección de Cristo'' ( Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden) * ''Pentecostés'' (''Pentecost'') (1615–20, Museo del Prado) * ''Retrato de caballero'' (''Portrait of a Knight'') (1618–23, Museo del Prado) * ''San Jacinto'' (''Saint Hyacinth'') (1620–24, San Pedro Mártir, Toledo) * ''Retrato de Felipe IV'' (''Portrait of Philip IV'') (1623–25, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich), miniature. * ''Retrato de caballero'' (''Portrait of a Knight'') (1625, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich), miniature. * ''San Agabo'' (The Bowes Museum, County Durham) * ''Adoración de los pastores'' (''Adoration of the Shepherds'') ( Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg) * ''Adoración de los pastores'' (''Adoration of the Shepherds'') (Meadows Museum, Dallas) * ''Retrato del arzobispo José de Melo'' (''Portrait of Archbishop José de Melo'') (Cabildo Catedralicio, Evora Cathedral) * ''Santo Domingo en Soriano'' (''Saint Dominic in Soriano'') (1629, Museo del Prado) * ''Santo Domingo en Soriano'' (''Saint Dominic in Soriano'') (1629, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg) * ''Retablo de los Miranda'' (c. 1629, Colegiata, Pastrana) * ''Recuperación de Bahía de Todos los Santos en Brasil'' (''Recapture of Bahía (de Todos os Santos) in Brazil'') (1634–35, Museo del Prado) * ''Retrato de un monje dominico'' (''Portrait of a Dominican Monk'') (1635–40,

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, Oxford) * ''Fray Alonso de Santo Tomás'' (1648–49, Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona)

References

External links

Juan Bautista Maino
@ Dominicos.org
Biography of Maíno
@ the Museo del Prado Encyclopedia

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Biography

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