Alonzo Cano
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Alonso Cano
(born March 19, 1601, Granada, Spaindied Sept. 3, 1667, Granada) Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect. He studied in Sevilla with Francisco Pacheco and was active as court painter in Madrid (163844). Despite a violent temperament, Cano produced serene and elegant religious paintings and sculpture. He worked for much of his career in Granada, where he designed the facade of the Granada Cathedral (1667), one of the masterpieces of Spanish Baroque architecture. He is often called the Spanish Michelangelo for the diversity of his talents.
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Alonso Cano
(bapt Granada, 19 March 1601; d Granada, 3 Sept 1667). Spanish painter, sculptor and architect. He was an artist of rare versatility in 17th-century Spain, although his architectural work was not extensive. While he is also known for his drawings, only about 60 of these are definitely attributable to him, despite the many extant sketches with the name 'Cano' carelessly added by later hands. Unlike most of his Spanish contemporaries, such as Zurbar?n or Vel?zquez, whose artistic styles did not outlive them, Cano's artistic legacy is measured in part by the number of artists who trained in his workshop and went on to become important masters in their own right: the painters Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Juan de Sevilla (1643-95) and, more distantly, Jos? Risue?o, and the sculptors Pedro de Mena and Jos? de Mora, who began by following Cano's models and then continued to produce polychrome sculpture in a distinctive style typical of Granada.
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Alonso Cano
(1601–67)
Spanish painter and architect. During the 1620s he assisted his father with the design of altar-pieces, but his west front of Granada Cathedral (from 1667) is stupendous, recalling arched Romanesque fronts (e.g. Lincoln Cathedral). Consisting of three huge arches, it does not employ the Orders, but rather species of pilasters, panels, and layers of planes.
Bibliography
- Kubler & Soria (1959)
- Rosenthal (1961)
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Alonso Cano
Cano, Alonso (älōn'sō kä'nō), 1601-67, Spanish baroque painter, sculptor, and architect. Cano studied under Pacheco and received painting and architecture commissions from King Philip IV. He was named chief architect of the cathedral at Granada. His architectural masterpiece is the design for the cathedral facade (1667), erected after his death. Cano executed both the sculpture and paintings for his monumental altarpieces and did independent religious pictures and portraits for the cathedral. Examples of his paintings are Descent into Limbo (Los Angeles County Mus.); Way to Calvary (Worcester Art Mus., Mass.); and Portrait of an Ecclesiastic (Hispanic Society of America, New York City). His sculptures, including statues of saints in Granada Cathedral, were executed with vigor and sensitivity.
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See study by H. E. Wethey (1955).
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Alonzo Cano
Alonzo Cano or Alonso Cano (19 March 1601 – 3 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect and sculptor born in Granada.[1] He learned architecture from his father, Miguel Cano;[1][2] painting in the academy of Juan del Castillo,[1] and from Francisco Pacheco the teacher of Velázquez; and sculpture from Juan Martínez Montañés. As a sculptor, his most famous works are the Madonna and Child in the church of Lebrija (also called Nebrija), and the colossal figures of San Pedro and San Pablo.[1][2]
He was made first royal architect, painter to Philip IV,[1][2] and instructor to the prince, Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias.[1] The King gave him the church preferment of a canon[1][2] of the Granada Cathedral (1652),[1] in order to take up a position as chief architect of the cathedral, where his main achievement in architecture was the façade, designed at the end of his life and erected to his design after his death.[citation needed]
He was notorious for his ungovernable temper; and it is said that once he risked his life by committing the then capital offence of dashing to pieces the statue of a saint, when in a rage with the purchaser who begrudged the price he demanded.[1] According to another story, he found his house robbed after coming home one evening, his wife murdered, and his Italian servant fled. Notwithstanding the presumption against the fugitive, the magistrates condemned Cano, because he was of a jealous temper. Upon this he fled to Valencia, but afterwards returned to Madrid, where he was put to the torture, which he endured without incriminating himself, and the king received him into favour.[3]
After the death of his wife he took Holy Orders[1] as a protection from farther prosecution, but still continued his professional pursuits. He died in 1676. In his last moments, when the priest held to him a crucifix, he told him to take it away; according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, this was because the priest gave the Sacrament to conversos.[1]
Works
- San Vicente Ferrer (praying)
- Virgin of the Olive Tree (1629)
- Inmaculada del Facistol (1655–1656) in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Granada.
- Virgen of Bethlehem
- Bust of Saint Paul
- Head of San Juan de Dios
- Annunciation
- Christ Bound to the Column in the church of the Convento del Stmo. Cristo de la Victoria de Serradilla (Cáceres).
- Entrance of the Cathedral of Granada
- Saint John the Baptist as a Youth 1634, in the Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio.
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References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Alonso Cano – Catholic Encyclopedia article
- ^ a b c d "Alonzo Cano", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Anonymous, "Alonso Cano" in Retratos de Españoles ilustres con un epítome de sus vidas, 1791.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
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