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Juan Carreño de Miranda

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Ines de Zuniga Countess of Monterrey Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

Ines de Zuniga Countess of Monterrey

Eugenia Martinez Vallejo nude. Bacchus Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

Eugenia Martinez Vallejo nude. Bacchus

The Assumption of the Virgin Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

The Assumption of the Virgin

The Penitent Magdalene Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

The Penitent Magdalene

Eugenia Martinez Vallejo clothed Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

Eugenia Martinez Vallejo clothed

The Feast of Herod Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

The Feast of Herod

Duke of Pastrana Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

Duke of Pastrana

Saint Sebastian Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

Saint Sebastian

Peter Ivanovich Potemkin the Russian Ambassador to Spain Print by Juan Carreno de Miranda

Peter Ivanovich Potemkin the Russian Ambassador to Spain

Saint Sebastian Print by Attributed to Juan Carreno de Miranda

Saint Sebastian

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Portrait of a young man

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Victory of St. James the Apostle on the Moors

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Study sheet with Marie representations

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Two apostlesJuan Carreno de Miranda

Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Born in Avilés in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de Las Cuevas and Bartolomé Román. He came to the notice of Velázquez for his work in the cloister of Doña María de Aragón and in the church of El Rosario. In 1658 Carreño was hired as an assistant on a royal commission to paint frescoes in the Alcázar of Madrid, which was destroyed in a fire in 1734. In 1671, upon the death of Sebastian de Herrera, he was appointed court painter to the queen (pintor de cámara) and began to paint primarily portraits. He refused to be knighted in the order of Santiago, saying Painting needs no honors, it can give them to the whole world. He is mainly recalled as a painter of portraits. His main pupils were Mateo Cerezo, Cabezalero, Donoso, Ledesma y Sotomayor. He died in Madrid.

Noble by descent, he had an understanding of the workings and psychology of the royal court as no painter before him, making his portraits of the Spanish royal family in an unprecedented documentary fashion. Most of his work are portraits of the royal family and court, though there are some altarpieces, early works commissioned mainly by the church.

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Catholic Encyclopedia article
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Juan Carreño de Miranda on artcyclopedia
Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on de Miranda (see index)
Velázquez , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on de Miranda (see index)

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