Patricio Caxés
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Patricio Caxés, Caxesi, or Caxete, (died 1612) was an Italian painter who primarily lived and worked in Spain. His exact date of birth is not known. Caxés was a native of
Arezzo Arezzo ( , ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in Italy and the capital of the Province of Arezzo, province of the same name located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about southeast of Florence at an elevation of Above mean sea level, above sea level. As of 2 ...
. It is not known by whom he was instructed, but he became an artist of sufficient celebrity to be invited to Spain by Philip II, who employed him in the palaces of Madrid. He was commanded to paint the gallery of the queen in the Palace of the Pardo, on which occasion he made choice of the very inappropriate subject of the 'Chastity of Joseph.' It was destroyed with many other valuable works of art in the burning of that palace. Caxés translated into Spanish
Vignola Vignola (; Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese: ; Bolognese dialect, Bolognese: ) is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna), Italy. Its economy is based on agriculture, especially fruit farming, but there are also mecha ...
's 'Five Orders of Architecture,' for which he engraved the frontispiece and plates. Caxés, after serving Philip II and Philip III during forty-four years, died at Madrid in extreme poverty, at an advanced age, in 1612. The king being informed of the state of destitution in which he had left his widow and eight children, munificently assigned to them five-pence a day for one year. One of his sons
Eugenio Caxés Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Biography He was born into a Florentine family in Madrid, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father ...
became a painter who also worked for Philip III.


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* Year of birth unknown 1612 deaths Artists from Arezzo 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Grand Duchy of Tuscany people Expatriates in Spain {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub