Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra

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Adoration of the Shepherds by Antonio del Castillo

Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra (born July 10, 1616 in Córdoba ; † February 2, 1668 ibid) was a Spanish painter and sculptor of the Baroque as well as an architect and poet.

biography

Antonio del Castillo: The baby Jesus appears to St. Antonio

Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra learned painting first from his father Agustín del Castillo and after his death in 1626 from a painter of religious images by the name of Ignacio Aedo Calderón. He later learned in Seville from Francisco de Zurbarán and his uncle Juan del Castillo , who went down in art history as the teacher of the three great Andalusian painters Cano , Murillo and De Moya . In 1635 he returned to Cordoba. There he mainly painted religious frescoes and oil paintings. Many of his works can still be seen in church buildings in and around his hometown today.

literature

  • Juan Agustín Cean Bermúdez: Castillo y Saavedra (Antonio del) . In: Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores . tape 1 : A, B, C . Viuda de Ibarra, Madrid 1800, p. 289–293 ( books.google.de - incorrectly different life dates, year of birth 1603).
  • Johann Dominik Fiorillo : History of the drawing arts from their resurgence to the most recent times . tape 4 : Containing the history of Mahlerey in Spain . Johan Friedrich Röwer, Göttingen 1806, p. 198 ff . ( books.google.de - incorrectly different life dates, year of birth 1603).
  • Castillo y Saavedra, Antonio . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 170–171 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - (wrongly different life dates, year of birth 1603)
  • Katharina Pawelec: Castillo y Saavedra, Antonio . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , p. 245.

Web links

Commons : Antonio del Castillo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra wall writing on the house where he died in Calle Muñices 27, Córdoba (Spanish).
  2. ^ Castillo Saavedra, Antonio del Museo Nacional del Prado (Spanish).
  3. ^ Friedrich Müller: Juan del Castillo. In: The artists of all times and peoples. ( textlog.de ).
  4. ^ Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra (Spanish), entry in the Cordobapedia.
  5. ↑ Castillo, Antonio del ( Memento of March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
personal data
SURNAME Castillo y Saavedra, Antonio del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish painter and sculptor of the Baroque
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1668
Place of death Cordoba