Nicolás Factor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nicolás Factor (29 June 1520-23 December 1583) (blessed) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period.

Born in Valencia. His father a poor tailor. He entered the Franciscan monastery on 30 November 1537. He painted devotional images. Pope Pius VI declared him blessed in 1786,

[edit] References

• Ceán Bermúdez, Agustín (1800). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Diccionario Histórico de los mas Ilustres Profesores de las Bellas Artes en España (Tomo Segundo D-J). Imprenta de la viuda de Ibarra, Madrid ; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, page 73.