Juan Martín Cabezalero (August 1645, in Almadén – 24 June 1673, in Madrid) was a Spanish

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painter.

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Earlier accounts place his birth in 1633, but baptismal documents indicate that it was 1645. At some point, his family moved to Madrid, where he trained with

Juan Carreño de Miranda Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Avilés in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, ...

. His first signed work dates from 1666; a depiction of Saint Jerome, now at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, which shows the influence of

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. In 1667, he received a commission to create four large canvases on the Passion of Christ for the chapel of the Christ of Sorrows of the Third Order of Saint Francis, for which he would be paid 1,550 reales each. They were completed the following year and constitute the only full set of works he is known to have produced. They show the influence of

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. Six smaller works in the

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were attributed to him by the art historian, Antonio Palomino, but this has been questioned. He also executed three canvases in collaboration with

José Jiménez Donoso José Jiménez Donoso (c.1632, Consuegra - 14 September 1690, Madrid) was a Spanish Baroque architect and painter. He decorated many of his own buildings, using the Italian technique of quadratura. Life and work He learned the rudiments of a ...

. It is likely that he also painted some

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es, although none have survived. An oil painting of the

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is preserved at the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos. The last documents relating to his life are an appraisal of his art collection and a will, which he was unable to sign himself. His estate passed to his mother, Isabel, who survived him by ten years and, per his wishes, he was interred at St Sebastian's Church, Madrid. The cause of death is unknown.Fernández García, Matías (1995). Parroquia madrileña de San Sebastián. Algunos personajes de su archivo. Madrid: Caparrós Editores. .

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Jusepe de Ribera, 1591–1652
', a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Juan Martín Cabezalero (see index) Spanish Baroque painters 1633 births 1673 deaths {{Spain-painter-stub

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