Alonso Cano

Alonso Cano Almansa (19 March 1601 3 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.

Biography

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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