Juan Sánchez Cotán (June 25, 1560 – September 8, 1627) was a Spanish Baroque painter , a pioneer of realism in Spain . His still lifes and bodegones were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy.
16-632: Juan Sánchez or Sanchez may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627), Spanish Baroque painter Juan Félix Sánchez (1900–1997), Andean folk artist Juan Sánchez Peláez (1922–2003), Venezuelan poet Juan Sanchez (artist) , (born 1954), American painter Juan Ramón Sánchez (actor) (1957–2008), Spanish actor Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez , character from Highlander Politics and law [ edit ] Juan Sánchez Ramírez (1762–1811), Dominican soldier and politician (for whom Sánchez Ramírez Province
32-517: A dark background. This orchestration of still life in direct sunlight against impenetrable darkness is the hallmark of early Spanish still life painting. Each form is scrutinized with such intensity that the pictures take on a mystical quality, and the reality of things is intensified to a degree that no other seventeenth-century painter would surpass. Norman Bryson describes Sánchez Cotán's spare representations as abstemious images and links his work to his later monastic life. They are supposed to express
48-528: A few are extant. Their severe naturalism has little in common with the artistic style then prevalent. Sánchez Cotán established the prototype of the Spanish still life depicting pantry items, called a bodegón , composed mainly of vegetables. Characteristically, he depicts a few simple fruits or vegetables, some of which hang from a fine string at different levels while others sit on a ledge or window. The forms stand out with an almost geometric clarity against
64-437: A monastic denial of worldly pleasure and richness: "Absent from Cotán's work is any conception of nourishment as involving the conviviality of the meal .... What replaces their interest as sustenance is their interest as mathematical form." His fruits and vegetables are arranged in beautiful ballet like compositions. The Carthusians are vegetarian , but many of his works contain game birds. He depicted few artifacts other than
80-525: A receptive audience among the educated intellectuals of Toledo society. Sánchez Cotán executed his notable still lifes around the beginning of the seventeenth century, before the end of his secular life. On August 10, 1603, Sánchez Cotán, then in his forties, closed up his workshop at Toledo to renounce the world and enter the Carthusian monastery Santa Maria de El Paular . He continued his career painting religious works with singular mysticism. In 1612 he
96-534: A saint. He died in 1627 in Granada . Sánchez Cotán stylistically falls within the school of El Escorial , with Venetian influence, and his works can be placed in the transition from Mannerism to Baroque . He was an early pioneer of Tenebrism at the beginning of the golden age of Spanish painting. Although his religious paintings have a primitive sensitivity and a peaceful rhythm, Cotán's high stature in art history rests exclusively on his still lifes, of which only
112-507: A settlement in the Municipality of Bayamón, Puerto Rico Dr. Juan Sanchez Acevedo Coliseum , Puerto Rican stadium See also [ edit ] Juan Carlos Sánchez (disambiguation) Juan Boza Sánchez (1941–1991), gay Afro-Cuban-American artist Juan Carlos (footballer, born 1987) (born 1987), Spanish footballer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
128-921: Is documented to have painted at least nine still life paintings. Seven of them are recognized, of which four are in museums and three in private collections; whereabouts of the other two remain unknown, and it is not known if they have survived. Juan Carlos S%C3%A1nchez (disambiguation) (Redirected from Juan Carlos Sánchez (disambiguation) ) Juan Carlos Sánchez may refer to: Juan Carlos Sánchez (footballer, born 1956) , Bolivian football striker Juan Carlos Sánchez (rapist) (born 1980), Colombian serial rapist and technologist Juan Carlos Sánchez (footballer, born 1985) , Bolivian football defender Juan Carlos Sánchez (footballer, born 1987) , Spanish football goalkeeper Juan Carlos Sánchez Jr. (born 1991), Mexican boxer See also [ edit ] Juan Sánchez (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
144-1558: Is named) Juan Manuel Sánchez, Duke of Almodóvar del Río (1850–1906), Spanish noble and politician Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo (born 1952), Spanish politician Juan Ramon Sánchez (born 1955), U.S. federal judge Sports [ edit ] Association football (soccer) [ edit ] Juan Ramón Sánchez (born 1952), Salvadoran footballer and football manager Juan Carlos Sánchez (born 1956), Bolivian football striker Juan Sánchez (footballer, born 1972) , Spanish footballer Juan Carlos Sánchez (footballer, born 1985) (born 1985), Bolivian footballer Juan Sánchez Sotelo (born 1987), Argentine footballer Juan Sánchez Miño (born 1990), Argentine footballer Juan Sánchez (soccer, born 1997) , American soccer player Juan Sánchez (footballer, born 1998) , Mexican footballer Juan Pablo Sánchez (born 2003), American soccer player Other sports [ edit ] Juan Sánchez (cyclist) (born 1938), Spanish Olympic cyclist Juan Manuel Sánchez (born 1962), Spanish sprint canoeist Juan Ignacio Sánchez (born 1977), Argentine basketball player Juan Carlos Sánchez Jr. (born 1991), Mexican boxer Others [ edit ] Juan Sánchez Duque de Estrada (1581–1641), Spanish bishop Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón (1913–2006), Mexican businessman, ideologue Juan Sánchez Muliterno (born 1948), Spanish professor Juan Sánchez Vidal (born 1958), Spanish model aircraft collector Other uses [ edit ] Juan Sánchez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico ,
160-534: The Escorial. In spite of his retreat from the world, Cotán's influence remained strong. His concern with the relationships among objects and with achieving the illusion of reality through the use of light and shadow was a major influence on the work of later Spanish painters such as Juan van der Hamen , Felipe Ramírez , the brothers Vincenzo and Bartolomeo Carducci and, notably, Francisco de Zurbarán . Sánchez Cotán ended his days universally loved and regarded as
176-657: The cloister of the Granada Monastery. These depict the foundation of the order of St. Bruno, and the prosecution of the monks in England by the Protestants . Although the painter's religious works have an archaic air, they also reveal a keen interest in the treatment of light and volume, and in some respects are comparable with certain works by the Italian Luca Cambiaso , whom Cotán knew at
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224-455: The strings from which vegetables and fruits dangle, this being the common means in the seventeenth century of preventing food and vegetables from rotting. Even if the objects are arranged so that they seem close enough to touch, they are nevertheless distanced. For all the realism with which they are depicted, the isolation of each object, heightened further by the black background, lends them a monumental, almost sculptural gravity. Sánchez Cotán
240-537: Was born in the town of Orgaz , near Toledo, Spain . He was a friend and perhaps pupil of Blas de Prado , an artist famous for his still lifes whose mannerist style with touches of realism the disciple developed further. Cotán began by painting altarpieces and religious works. For approximately twenty years, patronized by the city's aristocracy, he pursued a successful career as an artist in Toledo painting religious scenes, portraits and still lifes. These paintings found
256-501: Was sent to the Granada Charterhouse ; he decided to become a monk, and in the following year he entered the Carthusian monastery at Granada as a lay brother. The reasons for this are not clear, though such action was not unusual then. Cotán was a prolific religious painter whose work, carried out exclusively for his monastery, reached its peak about 1617 in the cycle of eight great narrative paintings that he painted for
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