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Juan de Valdés Leal (4 May 1622 – 15 October 1690) was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era. Career. Valdés was born in Seville in 1622. He became a ...
Finis Gloriae Mundi is an oil painting made by Juan de Valdés Leal between 1670 and 1672, and along with In Ictu Oculi, both were commissioned by Miguel Mañara to be placed below the choir of the church in the Hospital de la Claridad in Seville. Its dimensions are 220 x 216 cm finishing in an arc on the top.
Luisa Rafaela de Valdés Morales (1654 – after 1685), known as Luisa de Morales and Maria Luisa Morales, was a Spanish painter and engraver, and daughter and disciple of Juan de Valdés Leal. The current (2022) exhibition of her father's work at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville shows her completing some of his sculptures by adding finely ...
in ictu oculi, a vanitas by Juan de Valdés Leal for the Hospital de la Caridad (Seville).. The phrase in ictu oculi is a Latin expression meaning "in the blink of an eye". One source is from the Bible, in 1 Corinthians 15:52: "In momento, in ictu oculi, in novissima tuba", translated in the KJV as "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:" [1] where the Latin is itself a ...
An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects is a book written by the Spanish painter Antonio Palomino and dedicated to the biographies of the most eminent artists who worked in Spain during the so-called Siglo de Oro, the golden age of Spanish art.
Bust of Mañara by José Lafita in the Hospital Miguel Mañara reading the Rule of the Hermandad de la Caridad (1681), painting by Juan de Valdés Leal, also in the Hospital Mañara's sword over an old treasure-chest and chair in the hospital's council chamber Mañara's death mask
Juan de Valdés Leal, Finis gloriae mundi (1672). Seville, Hospital de la Caridad. Sic transit gloria mundi is a Latin phrase that means "thus passes the glory of the world". In idiomatic contexts, the phrase has been used to mean "fame is fleeting".
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