Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the
Baroque period.
Biography
He was born into a
Florentine family in
Madrid
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, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father,
Patricio, was a disciple of
Alessandro Allori and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador
Luis de Requesens. Caxés painted in the royal palaces of King
Philip II of Spain. He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for the
Escorial
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, who died in a fall from a scaffold.
Caxés was commissioned by the administration of
King Philip III to decorate the room for royal audiences in Madrid, where he painted a ''
Judgment of Solomon
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'' 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
Vincenzio Carduccio (in Spanish, sometimes ''Vicencio'' or Vicente Carducho; 1576 or 1578–1638) was an Italian painter who spent his career in Spain.
Biography
He was born in Florence, and was trained as a painter by his brother B ...
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
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'' (now lost). Among his pupils are
Luis Fernández
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and the barrister Valpuesta.
He opposed a fee proposed to extend the ''alcabala'' to painters.
The
Prado Museum owns an ensemble of paintings and drawings by Caxés, and also at the
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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another religious work ''Embrace at the Golden Gate''
can be seen''.''
References
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1574 births
1634 deaths
Artists from Madrid
16th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish Baroque painters