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Benito Manuel Agüero (1624–1668) was a Spanish painter of the
Benito Manuel Agüero (1624–1668) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque
The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
period, active mainly in Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
as a landscape and battle painter.
Career
Agüero was born inBurgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populous municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of th ...
and was trained under Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano Almansa or Alonzo Cano (19 March 16013 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.Philip IV.Boni, Page 8 He was a pupil of
Benito Manuel Agüero at the Museo del Prado.
1624 births 1668 deaths People from Burgos 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters {{Spain-painter-stub
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (c.1612 – February 10, 1667)
was a Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter, the most distinguished of the followers of his father-in-law Velázquez, whose style he imitated more closely than did any o ...
. He died in Madrid.
References
Further reading
* * *Aterido Fernández, ''Ángel, Corpus Alonso Cano: documentos y textos'', Madrid, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, 2002, p. 249. *Fernández García, Matías, ''Parroquia madrileña de San Sebastián. Algunos personajes de su archivo'', Madrid, 1995, , p. 133. *Barrio Moya, José Luis, ''El platero palentino Melchor de Astudillo, tasador de las joyas y objetos de plata de doña Bernardina Hurtado y Valdivieso (1665)'', PITTM, 80, Palencia, 2009, pp. 493–502, p. 495. *Palomino, Antonio (1988). ''El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado''. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones. . * Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). ''Baroque Painting in Spain 1600–1750''. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. . *Urrea, Jesús y otros (1995). ''Painters During the Reign of Philip IV'' (''Pintores del reinado de Felipe IV''). Madrid : Museo del Prado. .External links
Benito Manuel Agüero at the Museo del Prado.
1624 births 1668 deaths People from Burgos 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters {{Spain-painter-stub