The Spanish painter Juan Pantoja de la Cruz

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Two masterpieces of the Spanish painter Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (1553 - 1608) can be seen here and in one painting he represented Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566 - 1633) and in the other the Archduke of Austria, Albrecht VII (1559 - 1621) from the House of Habsburg. The artist was born in the city of Valladolid and already at a young age he discovered his passion for art and decided to go to Madrid to study art, but much about his early life is unknown and it is assumed that he did an apprenticeship with the painter Alonso Sánchez Coello and after his death, had taken over the workshop and he had already made a name for himself as an artist that even the Spanish royal family became aware of him and decided to promote him and even appoint him a court painter. It was King Philip II from the Habsburg dynasty who decided to bring him to court and here he created numerous portraits of the royal family and the creation of portraits was one of his main works and he also created some still lifes and developed a own style of which other artists such as Diego Velazquez were inspired. During his life, he also dealt a lot with other well-known painters such as Titian and even decided to restore destroyed works of some famous painters and he also dealt a lot with mythological themes and integrated these influences into his paintings and his most famous characteristic properties include the authentic light effects and shades and his works look extremely realistic and he was a great master in representing geometric shapes.

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