Antonio Castrejon (1625–1690) was a Spanish painter.
Life
Castrejon was born at Madrid in 1625. He was a pupil of
Francisco Fernandez
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Meaning of the name Francisco
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Commu ...
, and possessed more facility in colouring than skill in drawing. His best works are of small dimensions, but he sometimes painted large
altar-pieces, as the ''Martyrdom of Santa Lucia'', in the church of
San Felipe el Real at Madrid, which was destroyed by fire in 1718. He painted figures in the architectural pieces of
Roque Ponce and of
Josef Garcia, and groups within the flower-garlands of
Gabriel de la Corte. He died at Madrid in 1690.
References
Sources
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Antonio Palomino
Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of ''El Museo pictórico y escala óptica'', which contains a large amount of important biographical mate ...
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*Allende-Salazar, Juan, ''José Antolínez, pintor madrileño'', Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, vol. XXIII, Madrid, 1915.
*Agulló Cobo, Mercedes (1981). ''Más noticias sobre pintores madrileños de los siglos XVI al XVIII.'' Madrid: Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Madrid. .
*Gutiérrez Pastor, Ismael, ''Antonio de Castrejón como retratista y otras obras de su hijo Baltasar'', Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, (UAM), vol. III, 1991, p. 101-108.
*Salvador Prieto, Ma. Socorro, ''Una Inmaculada de Antonio Castrejón, pintor del siglo XVII'', ''V Jornadas de Arte'' (''5th Arts Journal''). ''Velázquez and the Art of his Time'', CSIC, editorial Alpuerto, Madrid, 1991, , p. 289-294
Attribution:
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1625 births
1690 deaths
Painters from Madrid
17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
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