Cristóbal García Salmerón
San Juan Evangelista (142 x 107cm.) Museo del Prado.
Cristóbal García Salmerón (1603–1666) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.[1]
Born in Cuenca, he was a pupil of Pedro Orrente, and painted history and animal paintings. One of his best works is a Nativity in the church of St. Francis at Cuenca. He was employed by Philip IV to paint a bullfight, held in honour of the birthday of Carlos II of Spain. He died at Madrid in 1666. His brother, Francisco (1608–1632), also a pupil of Orrente, followed his brother's career. Francisco painted in the church of S. Francisco at Cuenca a Burial of Christ. 1632.
Works:
- La Aparición de la Virgen a San Julián[2]
- San Juan Evangelista
References
- ↑ Pérez Sánchez, Benito Navarrete Prieto El Greco: apostolados Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza 2002 Page 168 "Among his followers we find Cristóbal García Salmerón (1603-1666). This artist from Cuenca made various Apostolates, probably following Orrente and always being loyal to the series of prints which represented the Apostles with their ..."
- ↑ Alberto Ferreiro The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia 2011 Page 209 "[See no. 2615] N. A. “La Aparición de la Virgen a San Julián, Cristóbal García Salmerón, 1600–1649—Catedral de Málaga.” Hispania Gothorum, p. 576.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 441.
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