thumb|179px|Alonso Cano, (Portraits of Illustrious Spanish), 1791

Alonso Cano Almansa (19 March 16013 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.

Biography

thumb|180px|Saint John the Evangelist's Vision of Jerusalem

He learned architecture from his father, Miguel Cano;

He was made first royal architect, painter to Philip IV, and instructor to the prince, Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias. The King gave him the church preferment of a canon of the Granada Cathedral (1652),

He was notorious for his ungovernable temper; and it is said that once he risked his life by committing the then capital offence of dashing to pieces the statue of a saint, when in a rage with the purchaser who begrudged the price he demanded.

After the death of his wife he took Holy Orders According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the dying Cano refused the Sacrament from a priest who gave it to conversos.

  • The Death of Saint Francis. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
  • The Christ Crucified (c.1646) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Works by Cano in the Prado Museum in Madrid include:

  • The Crucifixion
  • Saint Anthony of Padua
  • The Crucified Christ appears to Saint Teresa
  • A king of Spain
  • Two kings of Spain
  • The Miracle of the Well
  • Saint Bernard and the Virgin
  • The Virgin and Child
  • The Dead Christ supported by an Angel

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File:20090211 NP Inmaculada.jpg|Immaculate Conception, c. 1618–20, attributed to Velázquez or Cano

File:Cano - San Juan.jpg|Saint John and the Poisoned Chalice, c. 1635–37

File:Alonso Cano - Cristo y la Samaritana - Google Art Project.jpg|Cristo y la Samaritana, Christ and the Samaritan woman, 1640

File:Alonso Cano - Cristo recogiendo las vestiduras - Google Art Project.jpg|Christ Gathering his Robes, 1646

File:Alonso Cano - Cristo crucificado - Google Art Project.jpg| Cristo crucificado, Christ on the cross, 1646

File:Alonso Cano - Christ and Two Followers on the Road to Emmaus - Walters 372770.jpg|Christ and Two Followers on the Road to Emmaus, between 1635 and 1650

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File:Alonso Cano 003.jpg|Ideal portrait of a Spanish King, 1643

File:Alonso Cano - St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching - Google Art Project.jpg|St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching, c. 1644–45

(Castres) Alonso Cano - L'Annonciation - Musée Goya.jpg| The Annunciation, c.1655 Goya Museum.

(Castres) Alonso Cano - Le Mariage de la Vierge - Musée Goya.jpg|The Marriage of the Virgin, c.1655 Goya Museum.

File:San Bernardo y la Virgen, de Alonso Cano.jpg|Saint Bernard, c. 1656–60

File:Visión de San Antonio de Padua.jpg|Antony of Padua, 1660–62

File:Inmaculadaalonsocano.jpg|Immaculate Conception

File:Valladolid museo escultura San Juan Bautista Alonso Cano ni.JPG|Saint John the Baptist

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  • Paintings of Alonso Cano on Insecula
  • Scholarly articles about Alonso Cano both in web and PDF at the Spanish Old Masters Gallery
  • Alonso Cano on Artcyclopedia
  • Jusepe de Ribera, 1591–1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Alonso Cano (see index)

References