Juan Fernández Navarrete
Visual Artist
1526 – 1579
Who was Juan Fernández Navarrete?
Juan Fernández Navarrete, or "de Navarrete", called El Mudo, was a Spanish Mannerist painter, born at Logroño.
An illness in infancy deprived Navarrete of his hearing, which affected his ability to learn to speak. At a very early age he began to express his wants by sketching objects with a piece of charcoal. He received his first instructions in art from Fray Vicente de Santo Domingo, a Hieronymite monk at Estella, and also with Becerra. He visited Naples, Rome, Florence and Milan. Pellegrino Tibaldi met him in Rome in 1550.
According to most accounts he was for a considerable time the pupil and assistant of Titian at Venice. In 1568 Philip II of Spain summoned him to Madrid with the title of king's painter and a salary, and employed him to execute pictures for the Escorial. During the 1560s and 1570s the huge monastery-palace of El Escorial was still under construction and Philip II was experiencing difficulties in finding good artists for the many large paintings required to decorate it. Titian was very old, and died in 1576, and Tintoretto, Veronese and Anthonis Mor all refused to come to Spain. Philip had to rely on the lesser talent of Navarrete, whose gravedad y decoro the king approved. For eleven years until his death Navarrete worked largely on El Escorial.
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- Born
- 1526
Logroño - Also known as
- Juan Fernandez Navarrete
- Nationality
- Spain
- Died
- Mar 28, 1579
Toledo
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on July 23, 2013
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