Juarez, Luis (1585c.-1639) - The Prayer in the Garden (National Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico)
Oil on canvas; 188.5 x 161.5 cm.
Mexican family of painters. Luis Juarez (b c. 1585; d Mexico City, c. 1638) painted in the Mannerist style of the Spanish painters settled in Mexico, such as Baltasar de Echave Orio and Alonso Vazquez, although his figures are softer than those of his teachers. He began working in the first decade of the 17th century. His signed St Teresa (Guadalajara, Mus. Guadalajara) dates from that time and his St Anthony of Padua and the Ascension (both Quer?taro, Mus. Reg.) from 1610. In 1611 he was commissioned to make the triumphal arch for the reception of the Viceroy of New Spain, Fray Garc?a Guerra. During the 1620s he painted the retables in the church of Jesus Maria, Mexico City, and in S Agustine, Puebla. The finest of his numerous religious works are the Annunciation, the Agony in the Garden, the Visitation, the Archangel Michael and St Raphael (all Mexico City, Pin. Virreinal); the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine and the Virgin Bestowing the Chasuble on St Ildefonso (both Mexico City, Mus. N. A.); and the Education of the Virgin and the Ascension.
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Juarez, Luis (1585c.-1639) - The Prayer in the Garden (National Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico)
Oil on canvas; 188.5 x 161.5 cm.
Mexican family of painters. Luis Juarez (b c. 1585; d Mexico City, c. 1638) painted in the Mannerist style of the Spanish painters settled in Mexico, such as Baltasar de Echave Orio and Alonso Vazquez, although his figures are softer than those of his teachers. He began working in the first decade of the 17th century. His signed St Teresa (Guadalajara, Mus. Guadalajara) dates from that time and his St Anthony of Padua and the Ascension (both Quer?taro, Mus. Reg.) from 1610. In 1611 he was commissioned to make the triumphal arch for the reception of the Viceroy of New Spain, Fray Garc?a Guerra. During the 1620s he painted the retables in the church of Jesus Maria, Mexico City, and in S Agustine, Puebla. The finest of his numerous religious works are the Annunciation, the Agony in the Garden, the Visitation, the Archangel Michael and St Raphael (all Mexico City, Pin. Virreinal); the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine and the Virgin Bestowing the Chasuble on St Ildefonso (both Mexico City, Mus. N. A.); and the Education of the Virgin and the Ascension.
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