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Valdés was born in Seville in 1622. He became a painter, sculptor, and architect. By his twenties, he was studying under Antonio del Castillo in Córdoba.. Among his works are History of the Prophet Elias for the church of the Carmelites; Martyrdom of St. Andrew for the church of San Francesco in Córdoba; and Triumph of the Cross for la Caridad in Seville.
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 ...
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The genre began in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is a type of allegorical art representing a higher ideal. It was a sub-genre of painting heavily employed by Dutch painters during the Baroque period (c.1585–1730). [1] Spanish painters working at the end of the Spanish Golden Age also created vanitas paintings.
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.
Examples of the impact of Flemish painting on the Spanish still life can be found in the flower paintings by Juan de Arellano and the Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda and Valdés Leal. Jusepe de Ribera's The Clubfoot, a typical raw portrayal of human weakness by Spanish artists; 1642, oil on canvas, 164 × 92 cm, Louvre.
Vanitas (1646) by Philippe de Champaigne. Vanitas, also known as Allegory of Human Life or Still Life with a Skull, is an oil on panel painting attributed to Philippe de Champaigne, from 1646. It is held in the musée de Tessé , in Le Mans, which bought it at a public auction in 1884. [1] [2]
Cover page of Diálogo de la lengua.Manuscript in Biblioteca Nacional de España.. Diálogo de Lactancio y un Arcediano, also known as: Diálogo de las cosas ocurridas en Roma, ca. 1527, as well as Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón, ca. 1528, by Juan's brother: Alfonso de Valdés, are ascribed to Juan in the reprint, Dos Diálogos (in Spanish), 1850.