(b Granada, 1656; d Madrid, 1692). Spanish painter. He trained with his father, the painter Miguel Jer?nimo Cieza (d 1677), in Granada, specializing in decorative paintings in tempera, which included scenes with buildings. He also painted ephemeral constructions, especially those connected with the Corpus Christi festivities in Granada. His skill in this type of work was such that he was summoned to Madrid to serve at court, where he was employed as theatre decorator for the dramatic productions staged in the Palacio del Buen Retiro. He was named Painter to the King in 1689. His designs for this theatrical work do not survive. Among his extant works are some paintings with architectural backgrounds in Granada, the best-known being the series of landscapes with religious figures in the church of S Jer?nimo and the signed Expulsion of the Money-changers from the Temple (Granada, Pal. Carlos V). The technical quality of these works is very modest. Several paintings of architectural perspectives in the Palacio del Arzobispo, Granada, were destroyed in a fire in the early 1980s.
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