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Blas de Ledesma was a Spanish painter in the early 17th century.
More info on Blas de Ledesma at the Visual Arts Data Service
17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Spain-painter-stub
Blas de Ledesma was a Spanish painter in the early 17th century. Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644) was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled ''Art of Painting'', ...
mentions him in ''Arte de la Pintura'' (''Art of Painting''). He was known to work in Granada
Granada (,, DIN 31635, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the fo ...
, and in 1614, he designed a fresco
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...
for the Alhambra
The Alhambra (, ; ar, الْحَمْرَاء, Al-Ḥamrāʾ, , ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the ...
. His works are difficult to properly attribute, as there are many similar Spanish still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
paintings with his signature, and he is sometimes confused with Blas de Prado.
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More info on Blas de Ledesma at the Visual Arts Data Service
17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Spain-painter-stub