- Alonso Vázquez
Alonso Vázquez (1565 -c. 1608) was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the
Renaissance period.Vázquez was born in
Ronda , and learned painting in the school ofArfian atSeville . He passed through the usual apprenticeship of painting "sargas" and at length painted frescoes and oil-pictures. For the Cathedral and the convents of St. Francis and St. Paul, he painted a variety of works, no longer extant. He painted a series of canvases on the "life of St. Raymond", for the cloister of the friars of the order of Mercy.Vazquez was one of the artists chosen by the city of
Seville to paint the greatcatafalque erected in the Cathedral, at the time of public mourning for the death of Philip II. He died either in Sevilleor in Mexico, probably about the middle of the reign of Philip III.References
*cite book| first=William| last=Stirling-Maxwell| year=1848| title="Annals of the Artists of Spain" (Volume II) | editor = | pages= page 374| publisher=John Ollivier, publisher,|location=59 Pall Mall St., London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized June 22, 2007 |id= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dtADAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=stirling+maxwell+annals+spain| authorlink= [http://www.artnet.com/artist/672190/alonso-vazquez.html]
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