Benito Manuel Agüero
Benito Manuel Agüero, Landscape with Aeneas leaving Carthage.
Vista del Campillo, oil on canvas (55 x 198 cm.), El Escorial, now deposited at the Museo del Prado.
Benito Manuel Agüero (1624–1668) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Madrid as a landscape and battle painter.
Agüero was born in Burgos. He was a favorite of the King Philip IV.[1] He was a pupil of Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. He died in Madrid.
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Further reading
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 9.
- Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. pp. page 6.
- Aterido Fernández, Ángel, Corpus Alonso Cano: documentos y textos, Madrid, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, 2002, ISBN 9788436934946 p. 249.
- Fernández García, Matías, Parroquia madrileña de San Sebastián. Algunos personajes de su archivo, Madrid, 1995, ISBN 84-87943-39-X, p. 133.
- Barrio Moya, José Luis, El platero palentino Melchor de Astudillo, tasador de las joyas y objetos de plata de doña Bernardina Hurtado y Valdivieso (1665), PITTM, 80, Palencia, 2009, pp. 493-502, p. 495.
- Palomino, Antonio (1988). El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones. ISBN 84-03-88005-7.
- Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). Baroque Painting in Spain 1600-1750. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN 84-376-0994-1.
- Urrea, Jesús y otros (1995). Painters During the Reign of Philip IV (Pintores del reinado de Felipe IV). Madrid : Museo del Prado. ISBN 84-606-2078-6.
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