Annals of the artists of Spain

📘 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ... Interian de Ayala; Pictor Christianas Eruditas; p. 195. Hand-book; p. 637. 8E DE AL QUE SEA MAS BLEN HECHOR. Y A EL Y A D MARIA DE LA CALZADO SU MT7GER 8E LES DE EST A 8EPDLTCRA. FUE A DAR CUENTA A DIOS ANO DE 1660. AYUDESELE A PAGAR EL ALCANCE ROGANDO A DIOS POR EL. One of bis most pleasing pictures, says Bosarte,1 was the Holy Family in the church of San Benito; a well composed and well coloured work, bearing the signature, "Didacus Diaz, Pictor, 1621," which is probably identical with that now in the Museum at Valladolid.8 Felipe Gil de Mena was born at Valladolid in 1600, and studied painting under Vanderhamen8 at Madrid, whence he returned with sufficient skill to open a school of design, which obtained much credit in his native city. He possessed a large collection of drawings, prints, and models, valued at his death, in 1674, at 3,000 ducats. For the Franciscan convent he painted, in 1644, a number of pictures on the life of the patron saint, of which Cean Bermudez considered a large composition, representing a feast, as the best. Some of these are now in the Museum at Valladolid, and one records how St. Francis and St. Dominic, after a meeting on religious affairs, for lack of bodily provender, refreshed themselves with prayer, and how ministering angels thereupon appeared, laden with a celestial banquet.4 His most celebrated and curious work was a representation of a great auto-de-fe held at Valladolid, and painted for the Inquisition as a memorial of one of its triumphs. Bosarte1 thought his drawing superior to his colouring, but that there was little in his pictures to arrest the eye. His portraits of the good painter Diaz and his wife partake of the style of Pantoja.2 1 Viage; p. 147. » Chap, viii., p. 555. s Compendio Historioo;...