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

Francis of Assisi in the Portiuncula with donors Antonio Contreras and Maria Amezqueta, 1659, now at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Life edit

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 edit

  1. ^ a b Bryan 1886
  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.

Attribution:

  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Caro, Francisco". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.