Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante (1633 in Cordoba–1669 in Madrid) was a Spanish
Baroque
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Golden Age
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painter.
He was born in Córdoba, studied under Francisco Ricci in Madrid, and developed a career in the Spanish Court despite his early death. He was an admirer of Venetian paintings by
Tintoretto
Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...
and
Veronese
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* Monte Veronese, ...
. His last paintings are in the
rococo
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style. He is known for his religious paintings, e.g.
Roman Catholic Marian art
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depicting the
Immaculate Conception
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.
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Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E.
Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.
Origins
The surname, written in Spanish orthography as , is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Pedro" ("Pero" in archaic Spanish), the Spanish equivalent of Peter. At the ...
(1992). ''Baroque Paintings in Spain 1600-1750'', Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. .
* Palomino, Antonio (1988). ''El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado'', p. 333. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones. .
*Requena Bravo de Laguna, José Luis, ''Nuevas aportaciones a la Juno de
Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano Almansa or Alonzo Cano (19 March 16013 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.Biography at the Museo del Prado.