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Pablo González Velázquez (1664–1727) was a Spanish
Pablo González Velázquez (1664–1727) was a Spanish 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 ...
sculptor.
According to the art historian Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez
Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez (17 September 1749 in Gijón3 December 1829 in Madrid) was a Spanish writer on art.
Biography
Bermúdez was born in Gijón, Asturias. He founded an art academy at Seville, and was given responsibility to order the Ar ...
, who is the provider of all known biographical details, Velázquez was born in Jaén and was the head of a family of artists; his sons Antonio González Velázquez
Antonio González Velázquez (1723–1793) was a Spanish late-Baroque painter.
Biography
Velázquez was born in Madrid into a family of artists; his father Pablo González Velázquez and brothers Alejandro González Velázquez, Alejandro and Lui ...
, Alejandro
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander.
Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander ( Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros ( Greek), Alsander ( Irish), Alessandro ( Italian), Aleksand ...
and Luis
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...
were all painters. He moved to 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 ...
, where he raised his family and worked for the rest of his life.
Of the various works in stone and wood church Ceán attributed in Madrid, the only one that remains is the statue of San Luis executed for the original cover of the local church (1716), moved to the foot of the Carmelite church after the demolition of the old temple, and the sculptures of the Calatravas altarpiece, which according to historian Antonio Bonet Correa must, however, be also attributed to the whole José Benito de Churriguera
José Benito de Churriguera (21 March 1665, in Madrid – 2 March 1725, in Madrid) was a Spanish architect, sculptor and urbanist of the late-Baroque or Rococo style. He was born in Madrid to a Catalan cabinetmaker, gilder and altarpiece joine ...
altarpiece.
Ceán also believed the sculptures of St. Joachim and St. Anne's old school of the Irish in the Calvary Street, statues that were given up for lost in 1936 but which would be incorporated into the National Sculpture Museum (Valladolid)
The National Museum of Sculpture () is an art museum in Valladolid, Spain, devoted to sculpture. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture.
It has an extensive sculptural collection ranging from th ...
from Artistic Recovery Service with attribution to Juan de Juni
Juan de Juni (Fr. Jean de Joigny; c. 1507–1577) was a French–Spanish sculptor, who also worked as a painter and architect.
Career
Juan de Juni was born in Joigny, France, but began working in Italy, where he was first employed. In 1533 ...
, is precisely the characteristic of this sculptor, which could also include some other work attributed as the sculptures of Saint Zacharias and Saint Elizabeth preserved in the church of the Venerable Third Order of Madrid.
External links and references
* Bonet Correa, Antonio, "The church altarpieces Calatravas Madrid" Spanish Art Archive, 1962, p. 21. * Cean Bermudez, John Augustine, Historical Dictionary of the most distinguished teachers of the Fine Arts in Spain, Madrid, 1800, vol. 2, p. 227. * Martín González, Juan José, Baroque Sculpture in Spain 1600/1770, Madrid, Chair, 1983, , p. 378-379. * Urrea Fernandez, Jesus, "A proposal for the sculptor Pablo González Velázquez 'BSAA (1977), p. 484. 1664 births 1727 deaths Spanish sculptors Spanish male sculptors {{Spain-sculptor-stub