- Gaspar Becerra
Gaspar Becerra (1520-1570) was a Spanish painter and sculptor.
He was born at
Baeza inAndalusia . He studied atRome , it is said underMichelangelo , and assistedVasari in painting the hall of thePalazzo della Cancelleria . He also contributed to the anatomical plates ofJuan Valverde de Amusco 's "Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano" (Rome, 1556). After his return to Spain he was extensively employed by Philip II, and decorated many of the rooms in the palace atMadrid withfresco es. 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 atMadrid in 1563, and played a prominent part in the establishment of the fine arts in 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. AlsoBartolomé del Rio Bernuís at Toledo in 1607-27,Francisco López at Madrid, andJerónimo Vázquez at Valladolid.External links
* [http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?submit-button=search&search-form=artist_record.html&_IXARTIST_=11030 Anatomical drawings by Becerra] , from the
Royal Academy of Arts
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/valverde_bio.html Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine.] Selected pages scanned from Juan Valverde de Amusco's "Anatomia del corpo humano". (Rome, 1560).References
*1911
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