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Miranda, Juan Carreno de

Miranda, Juan Carreno de Eugenia Martinez Valleji, called La Monstrua oil painting on canvas
Eugenia Martinez Valleji, called La Monstrua
Painting ID::  32284
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Miranda, Juan Carreno de Eugenia Martinez Valleji, called La Monstrua oil painting on canvas



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  Miranda, Juan Carreno de
  Spanish, 1614-1685 was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Born in Avil's in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de Las Cuevas and Bartolom Roman. He came to the notice of Velezquez for his work in the cloister of Doña Maria de Aragen and in the church of El Rosario. In 1658 Carreño was hired as an assistant on a royal commission to paint frescoes in the Alcezar palace, now the Royal Palace of Madrid. In 1671, upon the death of Sebastian de Herrera, he was appointed court painter to the queen (pintor de cemara) and began to paint primarily portraits. He refused to be knighted in the order of Santiago, saying Painting needs no honors, it can give them to the whole world. He is mainly recalled as a painter of portraits. His main pupils were Mateo Cerezo, Cabezalero, Donoso, Ledesma y Sotomayor. He died in Madrid. Noble by descent, he had an understanding of the workings and psychology of the royal court as no painter before him making, his portraits of the Spanish royal family in an unprecedented documentary fashion
  Eugenia Martinez Valleji, called La Monstrua
  Oil on canvas, 165 x 107 cm

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