Pedro de Camprobín Passano (1605, Almagro - 22 July 1674,

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) was a Spanish

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painter who specialized in

still-life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, ...

s; primarily flowers.

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His father, Pedro, was a silversmith and his mother, Juana (née Passano) was descended from the Peroli brothers; painters from

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who had worked on the

fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

es at the . At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to Luis Tristán in

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. He does not appear on the official record again until 1630, when he passed the exam for the painter's guild in Seville. It is presumed that he completed his training in Madrid with

Juan van der Hamen Juan van der Hamen y (Gómez de) León (baptized 8 April 1596 – 28 March 1631) was a Spanish painter, a master of still life paintings, also called bodegón, bodegones. Prolific and versatile, he painted allegories, landscapes, and large-scal ...

, due to comparable stylistic elements in his early works.Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). ''Pintura barroca en España 1600-1750''. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. From 1632 to 1634, he created the "Magdalena Repentant" at the , which is the only religious work he is known to have produced. The figures show the influence of

Francisco de Zurbarán Francisco de Zurbarán ( , ; baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanis ...

, but his still-life sensibility is displayed in the items arranged on a table, in the style of a "

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". He married and had two daughters, but was already a widower when he made out his will in 1670. Ten years earlier, he and other notable artists, such as

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and Francisco Herrera, had participated in the creation of the "Academia de dibujo de Sevilla" (drawing academy), in which he collaborated until his death. Although he painted a wide variety of still lifes, his true specialty was floral arrangements; always presented in bowls or vases, with a casual look, and occasionally accompanied by living creatures, such as butterflies. Some have architectural perspectives; in the style of contemporary Italian models. He has been credited with the painting, "Death and the Knight", at the Hospital de la Caridad; an attribution based on the arrangement and symbolic value of numerous everyday objects.

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Spanish bodegón painters Spanish Baroque painters Painters from Seville 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 1605 births 1674 deaths {{Spain-painter-stub

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