Jerónimo Vicente Vallejo Cósida (1510 – 5 April 1592) was a Spanish

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painter, sculptor, goldsmith and architect.

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Born in a noble family, Cósida specialized in mural paintings and

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s (of which he came to decorate over twenty-five, although most are now lost). He was active in the province of

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, and performed meticulous work, especially in the treatment of the feminine figure, and had great capacity for work dedicating nearly sixty years of his life to painting.

Style

He is credited with having introduced the style of

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in Spain, perhaps as a result of having trained in

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with Vicente Masip, as he never traveled to Italy. He also demonstrated the influences of

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; especially in his drawing. A great innovator and pioneer of Renaissance painting in

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, together with the Italian

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, his style highlights the intricacy of detail, the elegance of gestures and faces, the stylization of the canon and elaborate spatial compositions.

Works

He was artistic adviser to

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(who in turn was his main sponsor), which allowed him to work in the local Cathedral and maintain a workshop in the city. His earliest surviving work consists of some paintings and the Altarpiece of San Juan Bautista de Tarazona Cathedral, dating around the 1530s. His style evolved in the middle of the sixteenth century into a

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where he absorbed the lessons of masters like Raphael or inspiring

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, as shown in table ''Birth of St. John the Baptist'' altarpiece of the

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, painted around 1580, one of his best works. One work executed by Cósida ''The Glorification of the Virgin'' is part of the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings collection.

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