Cristobal de villalpando biography of albert

Painter from New Spain

For other uses, see Villalpando (disambiguation).

Cristóbal de Villalpando (ca.

This painting, by the famous artist Cristóbal de Villalpando from about , is well-known for its subject.

In Santo Domingo we got into the sacristy where there is a major work by Christóbal de Villalpando, an artist I wrote of in my last Missive.

Born in Mexico City around mid-century, Cristóbal de Villalpando may have begun his career in the workshop of Baltasar de Echave Rioja (–).

This paper considers the relationship between traditional prints, painted copies and photography in the reproduction of art, including the development of.

Buy by Cristobal de (workshop of) Villalpando as fine art print.

1649 – 20 August 1714) was a BaroqueCriollo artist from New Spain, arts administrator and captain of the guard. He painted prolifically and produced many Baroque works now displayed in several Mexican cathedrals, including the cathedrals in Querétaro and Mexico City, as well as a depiction of the Zócalo (main square) in Mexico City, showing the damage of the 1692 riot to the viceregal palace three years earlier.^{[1][2]: 160–163}

Life

Born in Mexico City to the influential Villalpando family, Cristóbal assumed duties in the local militia as an ensign, as well as painting with Baltasar de Echave Rioja (Echave the Younger) in the Echave workshop.^[3] In 1669, he married María de Mendoza and they had four children.

He received several religious art commissions, both in Mexico City and in Puebla. Other p