Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes and bodegones were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy.
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Brígida del Río, the Bearded Lady of Peñaranda; 1590, 102 × 61 cm, Prado Museum.
Sánchez Cotán painted several Catholic works for the Carthusians, like The Carthusians Building the First Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas; after 1603, Granada Charterhouse.
Sánchez Cotán utilized motifs of Tenebrism in several of his religious works, such as The Virgin Waking the Child; 1603-27, 110 × 84 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada.
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1560 to 1627 · aged 67
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