Gaspar Becerra (1520-1570) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. 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 Baeza in Andalusia. Baeza is a town of approximately 15000 in Andalusia, Spain, in the province of Jaén, perched on a cliff in the Loma de Baeza, a mountain range Andalusia (Andalucía is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in terms of land area He studied at Rome, it is said under Michelangelo, and assisted Vasari in painting the hall of the Palazzo della Cancelleria. 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 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime One of them by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all Giorgio Vasari ( 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter and Architect, who is today famous The Palazzo della Cancelleria (Italian for "Palace of the Chancellery" meaning the Papal Chancellery) is a palace in Rome, situated between the present He also contributed to the anatomical plates of Juan Valverde de Amusco's Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556). Juan Valverde de Amusco (or "de Hamusco" (c 1525 -? was born in the Kingdom of Leon in what is now Spain in about the year 1525 and studied After his return to Spain he was extensively employed by Philip II, and decorated many of the rooms in the palace at Madrid with frescoes. Philip II (Felipe II de España Filipe I ( May 21, 1527 &ndash September 13 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 until 1598 Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. Fresco (plural either frescos or frescoes) is any of several related Painting types done on Plaster on walls or He also painted altar-pieces for several of the churches, most of which have been destroyed. His fame as a sculptor almost surpassed that as a painter. His best work was a magnificent figure of the Virgin Mary, which was destroyed during the French war. He became court painter at Madrid in 1563, and played a prominent part in the establishment of the fine arts in Spain. Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain.
Among his pupils were Miguel Barboso (b. Consegra, 1538, d. 1590), who worked at Toledo in 1585, and. becoming painter to the king in 1589, painted some frescoes in the Escorial. Also Bartolomé del Rio Bernuís at Toledo in 1607-27, Francisco López at Madrid, and Jerónimo Vázquez at Valladolid. Francisco López or Francisco Lopez may refer to Francisco López (painter 16th century Spanish Renaissance painter Francisco López
External links
- Anatomical drawings by Becerra, from the Royal Academy of Arts
- Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine. Selected pages scanned from Juan Valverde de Amusco's Anatomia del corpo humano. This article refers to an art institution in London For other meanings of Royal Academy see Royal Academy (disambiguation. (Rome, 1560).
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
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