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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.
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Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas or La familia de Felipe IV, 1656, oil on canvas, 310 × 276 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Juan de Valdés Leal: In ictu oculi, one of the Four last things of Man, 1672, oil on canvas, 220 × 216 cm, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville. Spanish Baroque painting refers to the style of painting which developed in Spain ...
Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.
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]
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.
Las vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes españoles, que con sus heroycas obras, han ilustrado la nacion (Spanish version, published in London in 1742) An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects , tr. (by U. Price) from the Musæum pictorium (English version, 1739)
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.