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

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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

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, 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 ...

, ''

An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects ''An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects'' is a book written by the Spanish painter Antonio Palomino and dedicated to the biographies of the most eminent artists who worked in Spain during t ...

'', 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Perez, Bartolome 1634 births 1693 deaths Artists from Madrid 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters Spanish bodegón painters