Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola

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Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola y Guzmán

Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola y Guzmán (born January 7, 1632 in Madrid , † May 24, 1684 in Seville ) was a Spanish bishop. He was Archbishop of Valencia from 1667 to 1668, Santiago de Compostela from 1668 and Seville from 1668 to 1684.

Life

Spínola was a grandson of the Spanish general Ambrosio Spinola (1571-1630) and a son of Diego Mexía Felípez de Guzmán , 1 ° marqués de Leganés. The Cardinal Agustin Spinola Basadone (1597-1649), from 1645 to 1649 also Archbishop of Seville, was his uncle.

Spínola was Bishop of Oviedo from 1665 to 1667 and became Archbishop of Valencia in 1667 , Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela in 1668 and Archbishop of Seville in the same year , which he remained until his death in 1684.

In 1637 he commissioned the Spanish painter Juan de Valdés Leal (1622–1694) to create a series of scenes from the life of his namesake, St. Ambrosius of Milan , painting for his private chapel in the archbishop's palace in Seville. During the war on the Iberian Peninsula , the French Marshal Soult took his headquarters in the palace in 1810 . The pictures disappeared and were considered lost until five of them reappeared on the New York art market in 1960 - two more appeared at an auction in Paris in 1981 .

Four of these paintings ( San Ambrosio nombrado gobernador de Milán, San Ambrosio consagrado obispo de Milán, San Ambrosio negando al emperador Teodosio la entrada al templo and San Ambrosio graduate al emperador Teodosio ) were acquired by the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and are on display there today .

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predecessor Office successor
Bernardo Caballero Paredes Bishop of Oviedo
1665–1667
Diego Sarmiento de Valladares
Martín López de Ontiveros Archbishop of Valencia
1667–1668
Luis Alfonso de los Cameros
Fernando Andrade Sotomayor Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
1668
Pedro Carrillo y Acuña
Antonio Paiño Seville Archbishop of Seville
1668–1684
Jaime de Palafox y Cardona