Francisco Caro

For the Mayor of Pichilemu, see Francisco Caro Rodríguez.
Francis of Assisi in the Portiuncula with donors Antonio Contreras and Maria Amezqueta, 1659, now at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Francisco Caro (1627 – 1667) was a Spanish Baroque painter.

Life

Caro was the son of Francisco Lopez Caro, and was born at Seville in 1627. He received his initial artistic education from his father, but later went to Madrid, where he studied under of Alonso Cano. According to Antonio Palomino his most important l works were the Life of the Virgin, in the chapel of San Isidoro in the church of St. Andrew, and the celebrated Porciuncula, for the church of San Francisco at Segovia,[1] now in the collection of the Prado in Madrid.[2]

He died at Madrid in 1667.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Bryan,1886-9
  2. ↑ "Galería online". Museo Nacional del Prado. Retrieved 16 December 2013. The Prado uses the title San Francisco de Asís en la Porciúncula, con los donantes Antonio Contreras y María Amezquita.

This article incorporates text from the article "CARO, Francisco" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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