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Juan Martín Cabezalero
Juan Martín Cabezalero (August 1645, in Almadén – 24 June 1673, in Madrid) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Life and works 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. His first signed work dates from 1666; a depiction of Saint Jerome, now at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, which shows the influence of Anthony van Dyck. 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 Flemish art. Six smaller works in the sacristy were attributed to him by the art historian, Antonio Palomino, but this has been questioned. He also executed three canvases in collab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Communion Of Saint Teresa
''The Communion of Saint Teresa'' is a 1670 oil on canvas painting by Juan Martín Cabezalero, now in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid. History Produced three years before the artist's death, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez (2005), ''Pintura española de los siglos XVII y XVIII en la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano'', p. 39-40 the painting shows a story from Friar Antonio de la Huerta's ''Historia y admirable vida del glorioso Padre San Pedro de Alcántara'' (1669) telling of Teresa of Avila attending a mass officiated by Peter of Alcántara, during which she had a vision of saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua assisting as deacon and subdeacon respectively. Who commissioned it is unknown, but the subject suggests it may have been a Carmelite or Franciscan monastery. The first document to record it is an inventory of the belongings of doña Ana María de Sora, a wife of a major official in Philip V of Spain, Philip V's court who died in Madrid in 1743. That document refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
