- Nicolás Factor
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Blessed Nicolás Factor Born 29 June 1520
23 December 1583Beatified 1786 Nicolás Factor (29 June 1520 – 23 December 1583) (blessed) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period.
He was born in the city of Valencia, the son of a poor tailor, and entered the Franciscan monastery on 30 November 1537. He painted devotional images. Pope Pius VI declared him blessed in 1786.
References
- Ceán Bermúdez, Agustín (1800). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Diccionario Histórico de los mas Ilustres Profesores de las Bellas Artes en España (Tomo Segundo D-J). Imprenta de la viuda de Ibarra, Madrid ; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. pp. page 73. http://books.google.com/books?id=wq0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7&dq=Diccionario+Historico+mas+ilustres+1800&as_brr=1.
Categories:- 1520 births
- 1583 deaths
- People from Valencia
- 16th-century Spanish people
- Spanish painters
- Spanish Renaissance painters
- Beatified people
- 16th-century venerated Christians
- Spanish painter stubs
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