Mateo Cerezo, sometimes referred to as The Younger (19 April 1637,
Burgos
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Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence o ...
– 29 June 1666,
Madrid
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) was a Spanish
Baroque
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painter; known primarily for religious works and
still-life
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s.
Life and works
His father was the painter, Mateo Cerezo Muñoz (c.1610-1670, sometimes referred to as The Elder), and Isabel Delgado, the daughter of a well-known goldsmith.
[José Buendía & Ismael Gutiérrez Pastor: ''Vida y obra del pintor Mateo Cerezo (1637-1666)''. Burgos: Diputación Provincial de Burgos, 1986 ] After receiving his initial training from his father, he went to Madrid, where he studied with
Juan Carreño de Miranda
Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
Born in Avilés in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, a ...
, becoming one his most promising students. He was also employed in Carreño's workshops.
His style was influenced by
Antonio de Pereda
Antonio de Pereda y Salgado ( – January 30, 1678) was a Spanish Baroque-era painter, best known for his still lifes.
Biography
Pereda was born in Valladolid, the eldest of three brothers from an artistic family. His father, mother and two b ...
, Carreño and
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( , ; late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contempora ...
.
[Alonso E. Pérez Sánchez: ''Pintura barroca en España 1600-1750''. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra, 1992 ] He also appears to have been familiar with
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...
,
Veronese and
Correggio, whose works he could have seen in the Royal collections. He was active in
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence o ...
,
Valladolid
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and
Valencia
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, as well as Madrid. His works ranged from altarpieces to small devotional paintings.
His final work was a "
Last Supper
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" for the
refectory
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of the
Order of Augustinian Recollects
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History
The Order was founded in ...
, which is known only from a print by
José del Castillo, made in 1778. It was looted during the
Peninsular War
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, and passed through several hands before disappearing during the
Spanish Civil War
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.
He was married in 1664, and died two years later, as the result of an unspecified serious illness. Despite his early death, he left a relatively large body of works; many of which may be seen at the
Museo del Prado
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.
Selected works
* ''Ecce Homo'', 1650,
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
* ''Assumption of Mary'' (''Asunción de María''), c. 1650,
Museo del Prado
The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from th ...
, Madrid.
* ''Desposorios místicos de Santa Catalina'',
Palencia Cathedral.
* ''The Assumption of Our Lady'' (''La Asunción de Nuestra Señora''),
San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián
* ''Magdalena penitente'', c.1661,
Rijksmuseum
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, Ámsterdam.
* ''Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata'', 1663,
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
* ''Boda mística de Santa Catalina''. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
* ''Bodegón de cocina''. Museo del Prado, Madrid
* ''Una pobre alma ante el tribunal'', Museo del Prado, Madrid.
References
Further reading
*Elias Tormo, ''Mateo Cerezo'', Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología (Spanish Art and Archaeological Archives). 3. 1927, pgs. 113 ff., 245 ff.
*
Antonio Palomino, ''
An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects'', 1724, first English translation, 1739, p. 89
*Juan Ruiz Carcedo, ''Maestros del arte burgalés'' (''Masters of Burgalese Art''). Burgos, 1997, p. 193-203
External links
Scholarly articlesin English about Mateo Cerezo, el Joven. Attributed to both in web an
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Spanish Old Masters Gallery
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1637 births
1666 deaths
Spanish Baroque painters