Juan Fernández Navarrete
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Juan Fernández Navarrete | |
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Born | 1526 |
Died | 28 March 1579 | (aged 52–53)
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Renaissance |
Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526 – 28 March 1579), or "de Navarrete", called El Mudo (The Mute), was a Spanish Mannerist painter, born at Logroño.
Biography
An illness in infancy deprived Navarrete of his hearing, which affected his ability to learn to speak. At a very early age he began to express his wants by sketching objects with a piece of
According to most accounts he was for a considerable time the pupil and assistant of
The most celebrated of the works he produced there are a "
He executed many other altar-pieces, all characterized by boldness and freedom in design, and by the rich warm colouring which has acquired for him the surname of "the Spanish Titian." He died at the age of 52–53 in Toledo.
References
- ^ Trevor-Roper, Hugh; Princes and Artists, Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Courts 1517-1633, Thames & Hudson, London, 1976, pp. 62-68
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Navarrete, Juan Fernandez". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 282.
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