Artist
Francisco Pacheco
Kingdom of Granada, 1564–1644
Francisco Pacheco was a Kingdom of Granada Early Baroque Italian painter. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Museo del Prado, most of them oil paintings. Francisco Pacheco was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
Francisco Pérez del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644), known by his pseudonym Francisco Pacheco, was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Alonso Cano and Diego Velázquez, as well as the latter's father-in-law. His textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, published posthumously, is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain.
He is described by some as the "Vasari of Seville": vocal and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions.
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