Eugenio Caxés
Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
He was born into a
Escorial
, who died in a fall from a scaffold.
Caxés was commissioned by the administration of
Judgment of Solomon in the vault. He was appointed Painter to the King in August 1612. Most of his works were completed in Madrid. Along with Vincenzo Carducci he painted the chapel of Our Lady del Sagrario in Toledo, and the canvases of the Retablo Mayor del Monasterio de Guadalupe. He was awarded 11,000 reales for a large historical canvas on the History of Agamemnon (now lost). Among his pupils are Luis Fernández
and the barrister Valpuesta.
He opposed a fee proposed to extend the alcabala to painters.
The Prado Museum[1] owns an ensemble of paintings and drawings by Caxés, and also at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando another religious work Embrace at the Golden Gate[2] can be seen.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eugenio Cajés.
References
- ^ "Cajés, Eugenio - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
- ^ Fernando, Real Academia de BBAA de San. "Cajés, Eugenio - El abrazo en la Puerta Dorada". Academia Colecciones (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-22.
- Madrazo, Pedro de (1872). Catálogo Descriptivo e Histórico del Museo del Prado de Madrid (Parte Primera: Escuelas Italianas y Españolas). Calle del Duque de Osuna #3; Original from Oxford University, Digitized May 1, 2007: M. Rivadeneyra. pp. 381–382.
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