Francisco Pacheco

Painting, Visual Artist

1564 – 1644

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Who was Francisco Pacheco?

Francisco Pacheco was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He is described by some as the Vasari of Seville: voluble and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions

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Born
Nov 3, 1564
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Nationality
  • Spain
Died
Nov 27, 1644
Seville

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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