Francisco Caro
Illustration — Francis of Assisi in the Portiuncula with donors Antonio Contreras and Maria Amezqueta, 1659, now at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Francisco Caro (1627 – 1667) was a Spanish Baroque painter.
Francisco Caro
Francisco Caro · Public domain
- Born
- 1627 · Seville.
- Died
- 1667
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Spanish
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Francisco Caro. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q5483239 · wikipedia · Francisco Caro
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
The documentary record
Statements marked “Documentary record” are set in the article beside the passage they confirm. Each is read from the authority records of the institutions named here; select “Prove” to see the record it was read from, where in that record, and when.
Institutions cited
Getty Union List of Artist Names
Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
Life
Caro was the son of Francisco Lopez Caro, and was born at Seville in 1627. He received his initial artistic education from his father, but later went to Madrid, where he studied under of Alonso Cano. According to Antonio Palomino his most important l works were the Life of the Virgin, in the chapel of San Isidoro in the church of St. Andrew, and the celebrated Porciuncula, for the church of San Francisco at Segovia, now in the collection of the Prado in Madrid. He died at Madrid in 1667.
Documentary record
Francisco Caro (1627 – 1667) was a painter. Both events are recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
La obra representa a los tres miembros de la Santísima Trinidad cristiana.
Attributed to Francisco Caro
Figura de muchacho, dibujo de Francisco Caro, s.f., conservado en el Gabinete de dibujos y grabados de la Galería Uffizi (Florencia). Carbón sobre papel crudo; verso ennegrecido para calcar el dibujo
Francisco Caro · Navarrete Prieto, Benito [dir] (2016): «I segni nel tempo: dibujos españoles de los Uffizi», Fundación Mapfre, p. 248
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Francisco Caro, revision 1366087397 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Museo Nacional del Prado. Galería online.
- 2.Bryan, 1886
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Francisco BayeuArtist
- Francisco BoresArtist
- Francisco CamiloArtist
- Francisco Cárdenas MartínezArtist
- Francisco Coronel NavarroArtist
- Francisco CorzasArtist
- Francisco de PalaciosArtist
- Francisco de Paula Van HalenArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Francisco Caro?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.