Juan Ribalta
Illustration — Saint Jerome Juan Ribalta (1597 – October 1628) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. His father, Francisco Ribalta, was a famous painter, active in the style of Caravaggio. Some sources said he was born in Madrid and later moved to Valencia.
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Juan Ribalta
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- Spain
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- painter
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- religious
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- Baroque painting
- Teachers
- Francesc Ribalta
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Saint Jerome Juan Ribalta (1597 – October 1628) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. His father, Francisco Ribalta, was a famous painter, active in the style of Caravaggio. Some sources said he was born in Madrid and later moved to Valencia.
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His mother Inés Pelayo died in 1601. Juan's works and style are similar to that of his father. He later painted Saint Sebastian at the Valencia Cathedral in 1616, later the small Adoration of the Shepherds (now at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao) and St. Peter, he also painted portraits including the poet Gaspar de Aguilar.
Training under Francesc Ribalta is recorded. The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are religious. The authority associates the name with Baroque painting. Work by Juan Ribalta is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.
• St. Sebastian (1616), Valencia Cathedral • The Adoration of the Shepherds, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao • St. Peter (around 1625), oil on panel, 167 x 123 cm, Museo de Pellas Artes de Valencia. • St. John • Portrait of the poet Gaspar de Aguilar, oil on panel 65 x 49 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia • St. Jerome, oil on panel, Museum of Arts of Catalonia, Barcelona
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- 1.Palomino, pág. 142.
- 2.Pérez Sánchez, pág. 151.
- 3.Cherry, Peter, La adoración de los pastores, Bilbao museoa.
- 4.Benito Domenech, Fernando y Vallés Borrás, Vicent Joan, «Un proceso a Francisco Ribalta en 1618», en Boletín de la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando nº 69 (1989), pp. 143-168.
- 5.Benito Domenech, pág. 217.
- 6.Benito Domenech, pág. 216.
- 7.Benito Domenech, pág. 218.
- 8.Kowal, pág. 114.
- 9.Pérez Sánchez, pág. 152.
- 10.Kowal, pág. 116. La autoría por Juan de los evangelistas del Prado, procedentes quizá de la predela de un retablo, es defendida también por Benito Domenech, pág. 242, y Pérez Sánchez, pág. 152.
- 11.Benito Domenech, pág. 246. Para Kowal, pág. 118, el San Pedro sería «quizá la imagen más brillante del estilo ribaltesco» e indudablemente de Juan, a quien asigna también su pareja, el San Pablo de la puerta restante.
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