Romulo Cincinato

La circuncisión (German: The Circumcision ) from 1573, originally for a Jesuit church altar in Cuenca, is kept in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando .

Rómulo Cincinato (* 1502 (?) In Florence , † 1593 in Madrid ) was an Italian Renaissance painter of Mannerism who worked in Spain.

Cincinato was a follower of the Florentine Francesco Salviati and was brought to the Spanish court of Philip II in 1557 by Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens , at the time the Spanish ambassador to the Holy See . In Spain he worked for the crown at the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial , for the Roman Catholic Church and between 1578 and 1580 for the influential Castilian noble family de Mendoza (in the Palacio del Infantado , Guadalajara ).

His two sons, Diego Rómulo Cincinato and Francisco, also became painters. Diego painted a. a. for Fernando Afán de Ribera , the third Duke of Alcalá.

literature

• Ibáñez Martínez, Pedro Miguel: Rómulo Cincinato y el retablo mayor de la iglesia de los jesuitas de Cuenca , Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, vol. 1 of 1991, no. 72, pp. 435-448; online (Spanish).
• Rodríguez Rebollo, Ángel: Adiciones al catálogo del pintor Rómulo Cincinato , Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Vol. -2 of 2001, No. 92-93, pp. 67-80; online (Spanish).
• Andreina Griseri:  CINCINNATO (Cincinato, Chinchinato, Sinsinato), Romolo (Rómulo Florentin). In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 25:  Chinzer – Cirni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1981.

Web links

Commons : Romulo Cincinnato  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cincinnato, Romolo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved September 19, 2014.