Francisco López
Illustration — San Juan Bautista, oil on canvas, 107 x 86 cm, Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Museum. Francisco López (1554 in Colmenar de Oreja near Madrid - 1629) was a Spanish painter and engraver. He was a pupil of Bartolommeo Carducci, whom he assisted in 1595 in painting for the church of San Felipe el Real at Madrid, destroyed by fire in 1718.
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Francisco López
Francisco López · [2] · Public domain
- Born
- 1554 · Colmenar de Oreja.
- Died
- 1629 · Madrid.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- painter · engraver
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — San Juan Bautista, oil on canvas, 107 x 86 cm, Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Museum. Francisco López (1554 in Colmenar de Oreja near Madrid - 1629) was a Spanish painter and engraver. He was a pupil of Bartolommeo Carducci, whom he assisted in 1595 in painting for the church of San Felipe el Real at Madrid, destroyed by fire in 1718.
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He was appointed painter in ordinary to King Philip III of Spain. In 1603, he painted a series of paintings representing the victories of Charles V in the King's dressing-room at the Pardo Palace. He also etched the third, sixth, and seventh plates for Vincenzo Carducci's Dialogues on Painting. He also painted Saint John the Baptist (107 x 86 cm) which is now at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
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1554
Francisco López was born in 1554 at Colmenar de Oreja.
1629
Francisco López died in 1629 at Madrid.
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