Juan Carreño de Miranda

Juan Carreño de Miranda
File:Carreño Miranda.jpg Statue of Juan Carreño de Miranda, in Avilés
Born	Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-03-25)25 March 1614 Avilés, Spain
Died	Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Known for	Painting

Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

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.

Gallery of work

• Works of Juan Carreño de Miranda
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  Carlos II el hechizado

• Claudia Felicitas of Austria.jpg

  Claudia Felicitas of Austria

• Juan Carreño de Miranda - The Assumption of the Virgin - Google Art Project.jpg

  The Assumption of the Virgin

• Carreno de Miranda Pastrana.jpg

  Portrait of the Duke of Pastrana (1649-1693)

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  Carlos II of Spain

• Miranda Potyomkin.jpg

  Portrait of Russian ambassador Pyotr Potemkin, 1681-1682

• Juan CARREÑO DE MIRANDA - Queen Mariana de Austria as a Widow.JPG

  Queen Mariana of Austria

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  Maria Theresa of Spain

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  Inés de Zúñiga, Countess of Monterrey

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia article
• ARTEHISTORIA
• 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)