- Eugenio Caxés
Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642) was a Spanish painter of the
Baroque period.He was born into a Florentine family in
Madrid , and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father, Patricio, was a disciple ofAlessandro Allori and was recruited to Spain by the ambassadorLuis de Requesens . Caxés painted in the royal palaces ofKing Felipe II . He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for theEscorial , who died in a fall from a scaffold.Caxés was commissioned by the administration of Felipe III to decorate the room for royal audiences, where he painted a "
Judgement of Solomon " in the vault. He was appointed Painter to the King in August 1612. He was prolific in Madrid. Along withVincenzo Carducci he painted the chapel of Our lady del Sagrario in Toledo, and the canvases of the Retablo Mayor del Monasterio de Guadalupe. He was awarded 11,000 "reales" for a large historical canvas on the "History ofAgamemnon " (now lost). Among his pupils areLuis Fernandez and the barrister Valpuesta.He was the editor of a biography of Spanish painters, called the "Abecedario Pittorico". He opposed a fee proposed to extend the "alcabala" to painters.
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