FRANCISCO PACHECO

Francisco Pacheco del Ro

(Bap. 3 November 1564 27 November 1644)

Spanish painter who is most famous for painting

in the Mannerist and Early Baroque styles of art.
Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and
father-in-law of Diego Velzquez and Alonzo Cano
Famous for his textbook on painting that is an
important source for the study of 17th-century
practice in Spain
He is described by some as the "Vasari of
Seville": voluble and didactic about his theories
of painting and thoughts about painters,
conventional and uninspired in his executions

Early Life:

Francisco Pacheco was born in Sanlcar de

Barrameda in the Spanish province of
Cdiz.
Moving to Sevilla (Seville), Pacheco studied
painting under Luis Fernndez, learning
primarily by copying the work of Italian
Renaissance masters.
After visiting (1611) Madrid andToledo,
where he studied the work of El Greco, he
returned to Sevilla and opened an academy.

Career:

Pacheco's school emphasized the

academically correct representation of
religious subjects, not least because
he was the official censor of Seville's
Inquisition.
His own work reflects those
constraints; paintings such as the Last
Judgment and Martyrs of Granada.
Although Velzquez, a student in
Pacheco's school and his son-in-law, he
was uninfluenced by his father-in-laws

The Last Communion of Saint

Raymond Nonnatus (1611)
Oil on canvas, The Bowes Museum

TheLast Judgment
In the convent of Santa Isabel (1614)
Oil on Canvas, Musee Goya Museum

The Immaculate Conception (1621)

Oil on Canvas, Seville, Cathedral

Books:

Libro de los retratos (Book of Paintings) contained over seventy paintings with a small biography.
This work was kept safe in the Lzaro Galdiano Museum
and the Library in the Royal Palace in Madrid. It was later
published in 1884 by Jos Mara Asensio.
Arte de la pintura (Art of Painting) - completed in 1641
and published in 1649.
This book is still one of the best critical collections of
Spanish Baroque art.
Francisco Pachecos contribution to the academic
study of art is certainly still felt today as his work helps
define the dates of the many artistic movements around
during his time.

Interesting Fact:

The interesting thing abut Pacheco

was that almost all the paintings that
he drew were by oil on canvas.
It is a process of painting with
pigments that are bound with a
medium of drying oil.
Oil painting was widely used by Europe
during those times.

Conclusion:

Francisco Pacheco was a painter who was

the teacher of Diego Velzquez. He wrote
a book called Arte de la pintura, which
became very famous for knowing the
studies of 17th century practice in Spain.
It was surprising to find that he was
famous for writing a certain book rather
than being famous for his paintings even
when he was a painter. Also, he was a
teacher of a very famous painter.