Juan Correa de Vivar

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Juan Correa de Vivar (* around 1510 in Mascaraque , Toledo ; † 16th April 1566 in San Miguel, Toledo) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance .

Life

Juan Correa de Vivar was born in Mascaraque, the village where his father came from. His maternal family came from Portillo de Toledo . His grandfather Payo Correa was a councilor for the city of Toledo. The Vivars called themselves descendants of the national hero El Cid . Juan Correa de Vivar owned a large house and land in Mascaraque, to which he returned from time to time. He never got married. As his will shows, he was a religious man. He left his property for charity, for masses or to establish an eternal canon in the parish of Mascaraque, the first beneficiary of which was his nephew, Rodrigo de Vivar,

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Juan Correa de Vivar learned the profession of painter in the studio of Juan de Borgoña, the most important master of Toledan painting in the first decades of the 16th century , influenced by Italian painting as well as by the Spanish and Nordic schools.

He began his first important work in the 1530s . The first paintings that can be ascribed to him are the altarpieces of the Poor Clares convent in Griñón (Madrid). In this decade we can see a small altarpiece for the parish of Mora (Toledo) and the altarpiece of the Nativity for the Guidando Monastery ( El Tiemblo , Ávila), in which we discover the great influence of Juan de Borgoña on the composition. The two paintings acquired by the Louvre in 2010 - The Nativity and The Visitation - are early works that were influenced by Juan de Borgoña.

However, he gradually moved away from his master's style to approach Mannerism , as can be seen on the altarpiece for the Church of Meco (Madrid). In 1540 he painted works for the community of San Martín de Valdeiglesias (Madrid), the church of Santiago del Arrabal, the church of San Nicolás in Toledo and the altarpiece by Herrera del Duque, where he had his first contact with Luis de Morales .

The influence of Raphael is more noticeable in the 1550s with more monumental figures. He made the altarpiece for the chapel of the Virgen del Sagrario in the Cathedral of Toledo .

In the last ten years of his life we ​​find the influence of Luis de Morales and the mannerism of Alonso Berruguete and Juan de Villoldo. He created a variety of works for the Cathedral of Teruel , and paintings such as the Crucifixion in the Santa Catalina Chapel of the Church of El Salvador in Toledo, the altarpiece of the Church of Almorox (Toledo), altarpieces of the nuns of San Pablo de Toledo, from Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) and Villaseca de la Sagra (Toledo). His works hang in the most famous museums in the world, such as the Louvre in Paris or the Museo del Prado Madrid. One of his most interesting works hangs in the Assumption Cathedral in Leslau, Poland: "The Crucifixion" (1565).

Juan Correa de Vivar died on April 16, 1566 in Toledo in the municipality of San Miguel, and was buried in Mascaraque.

  • Juan Correa de Vivar

    Louvre Museum: La visitación

  • Adoración de los pastores

  • Martirio de San Andres

  • Descendimiento de la Cruz

  • Prado Museum, Madrid: Prophet Isaias,

  • Prado Museum, Madrid: Prophet David,

  • Prado Museum, Madrid: Santo Domingo de Guzmán

  • Prado Museum, Madrid, Anunciación

    Prado Museum, Madrid

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juan Correa de Vivar | Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ Correa de Vivar, Juan - Museo Nacional del Prado. Retrieved August 15, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Sights. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Correa de Vivar, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Mascaraque , Toledo
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1566
Place of death San Miguel, Toledo