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Alonso Sánchez Coello (c. 1531 – 8 August 1588) was an Iberian portrait painter of the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance. He is mainly known for his portrait paintings executed in a style which combines the objectivity of the Flemish tradition with the sensuality of Venetian painting.
Alonso Sánchez Coello (born 1531/32, Benifayó, near Valencia, Spain—died August 8, 1588, Madrid) was a painter who was one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting.
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Alonso Sánchez Coello (Portuguese: Alonso Sanches Coelho 1531 – 8 August 1588) was a Spanish portrait painter, of Portuguese origin, of the Spanish Renaissance and one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting.
Sánchez Coello, Alonso. Benifairó del Valls, Valencia (Spain), 1531/32 - Madrid (Spain), 1588. At the age of ten, Alonso Sánchez Coello moved with his family to Portugal, where he began his first art studies.
Biography of SANCHEZ COELLO, Alonso (b. 1531, Beifayo, d. 1588, Madrid) in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)
Talented Spanish painter, portraitist, who worked at the court of king Philip II, Alonso sánchez Coello was born in the early 30-ies of the 16th century in Valencia. However, he spent his childhood in Portugal, where he was transported shortly after birth.
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Spanish painter of Portuguese parentage, principally a portraitist. He studied under Anthonis Mor in Flanders in the early 1550s and from 1559 worked at the court of Philip II of Spain (see Habsburg), becoming a personal favourite of the king, who was godfather to his two daughters.
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