In the history of art, Alonso Sánchez Coello is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Alonso Sánchez Coello as Spanish artist (1531-1588).
Alonso Sánchez Coello was born at Benifairó de les Valls in 1531. His recorded nationality is Crown of Aragon.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is spanish renaissance.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Crown of Aragon shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Alonso Sánchez Coello died in 1588, aged 57. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Spanish Renaissance
