Sebastián Herrera Barnuevo (1611 or 1619–1671) was a painter, architect, sculptor and etcher, who was born and died in
Madrid
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, Spain.
Life
His father, Antonio Herrera, was a sculptor; after being taught by his father, Sebastiano was taught by
Alonzo Cano
Alonso Cano Almansa or Alonzo Cano (19 March 16013 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.[Philip IV of Spain
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, among others in the nobility. He was held to be modest and deeply religious.
Works
His painting colors were brilliant and harmonized in the manner of
Titian
Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.
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, however his style was so close to Guido as to be sometimes indistinguishable. (''St. Barnabas'' was long believed to be by Guido.)
At the end of the 19th century, most of his paintings were in Madrid. His best are considered the "St. Barnabas" in
El Escorial
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, the ''Beatification of St. Augustine'' in the Chapel of the Augustinian Recollects and the ''Nativity'' in the
San Jerónimo el Real. Another of his paintings is ''Retrato de Carlos II niño con su madre la Reina Mariana de Austria'' (''Portrait of King Carlos II as a child, with his mother Queen Mariana of Austria'').
In 1991 a memorial plaque for Herrera was installed at
Plaza de Oriente
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, 3 in Madrid.
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External links
Sebastián Herrera Barnuevo on artcyclopedia
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17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
Spanish Baroque painters
1671 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
17th-century Spanish architects