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Juan De Solís
Juan de Solís (c.1598 - 30 September 1654, Madrid) was a Spanish painter and scenographer in the Baroque art, Baroque style. He spent much of his career in the service of King Philip IV of Spain, Philip IV. Only a few of his works have been preserved. His son, Francisco de Solís, Francisco, also became a painter. Biography According to a treatise by Antonio Palomino, Solís was born into a noble family. This has not been corroborated. Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, Ceán Bermúdez says that he learned painting from Alonso de Herrera in Segovia.Ceán Bermúdez, ''Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de la Bellas Artes en España'', 1800 He was already established as a painter by 1630, when he took Juan de Arellano into his workshop as a student.Diego Angulo Íñiguez and Alfonso Pérez Sánchez, ''Pintura madrileña del segundo tercio del siglo XVII'', 1983, Instituto Diego Velázquez Around 1636, he began working as a court painter, creating stage decorati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Díaz De Solís
Juan Díaz de Solís ( – 20 January 1516) was a 16th-century navigator and explorer. He is also said to be the first European to land on what is now modern day Uruguay. Biography His origins are disputed. One document records him as a Portuguese in the service of Castile ("Spain"), having possibly been born in Lisbon or São Pedro de Solis. Others claim that his birth took place in Lebrija, in what is now the province of Seville, Spain, where documentation testifies that he lived when he was in Castile, as ''vecino'' ("neighbor"), meaning living there. However he began his naval career in Portugal as João Dias de Solis, where he became a pilot in the Portuguese India Armadas. After leaving his home in Lisbon and the ship that he was going to sail as Pilot, in the same day of departure of the fleet (ship captained by Afonso de Albuquerque, in the 1506 armada of Tristão da Cunha, to India), accused of the death of his wife, he served as a privateer in French fleets for a sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |