Juan Carreño de Miranda
Paintings
Ines de Zuniga Countess of Monterrey
Eugenia Martinez Vallejo nude. Bacchus
The Assumption of the Virgin
The Penitent Magdalene
Eugenia Martinez Vallejo clothed
The Feast of Herod
Duke of Pastrana
Saint Sebastian
Peter Ivanovich Potemkin the Russian Ambassador to Spain
Saint Sebastian
Victory of St. James the Apostle on the Moors
Drawings
Study sheet with Marie representations
Two apostlesJuan Carreno de Miranda
Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Born in Avilés in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de Las Cuevas and Bartolomé Román. He came to the notice of Velázquez for his work in the cloister of Doña María de Aragón and in the church of El Rosario. In 1658 Carreño was hired as an assistant on a royal commission to paint frescoes in the Alcázar of Madrid, which was destroyed in a fire in 1734. In 1671, upon the death of Sebastian de Herrera, he was appointed court painter to the queen (pintor de cámara) and began to paint primarily portraits. He refused to be knighted in the order of Santiago, saying Painting needs no honors, it can give them to the whole world. He is mainly recalled as a painter of portraits. His main pupils were Mateo Cerezo, Cabezalero, Donoso, Ledesma y Sotomayor. He died in Madrid.
Noble by descent, he had an understanding of the workings and psychology of the royal court as no painter before him, making his portraits of the Spanish royal family in an unprecedented documentary fashion. Most of his work are portraits of the royal family and court, though there are some altarpieces, early works commissioned mainly by the church.
External links
Catholic Encyclopedia article
ARTEHISTORIA
Juan Carreño de Miranda on artcyclopedia
Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on de Miranda (see index)
Velázquez , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on de Miranda (see index)
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