- "Diego de Leyva" is also the name of a Spanish governor of Melilla. The following is a list of rulers during the history of Melilla as a Spanish Exclave: Governors 1497-1703 (unknown 1497-1556
Diego de Leyva (c. 1580 - 1637) was a Spanish painter. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. He was born at Ilaro in Old Castile. Ilaro is a Town in Ogun State, Nigeria. Ilaro is the headquarters of the Yewa South Local Old Castile ( Castilla la Vieja) is a historic region of Spain, which included territory that later corresponded to the provinces of politically Santander (now He is supposed to have spent his youth at Rome, and returned to Spain a painter, and settled at Burgos. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 History Early man of Neanderthal occupied sites around Burgos as early as 800000 years ago In 1628 he was commissioned by the Chapter of Burgos to paint the portraits of certain dignitaries for the chapel of St. Catalina in the cathedral, and for the chapel of the Virgin he painted a picture of the Presentation.
In 1613 he retired to the Carthusian monastery of Miradores, where in 1634 he took the final vows, and devoted himself to the performance of his duties, and the production of religious pictures, among which were fifteen large canvases on the life of Bruno of Cologne, eleven martyrdoms, ten pictures of saints of the Carthusian Order, a Crucifixion, and some pictures of the Virgin Mary. The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics. Saint Bruno of Cologne ( Cologne, c 1030 &ndash Squillace, 6 October, 1101) the founder of the Carthusian Order personally The term martyr ( Greek μάρτυς martys "witness" is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices their life (or personal freedom The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics. He died at Miradores.
References
- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: ‘‘Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical’‘ (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 52.