|
Espinosa, Jerónimo Jacinto
(b Cocentaina, Alicante, bapt 20 July 1600; d Valencia, 1667). Spanish painter. He was the son of Jerónimo Roderiguez de Espinosa (1562–1638), a modest painter of Valladolid who in 1596 was established in Cocentaina and from 1612 in Valencia. He probably began his training in his father’s studio and by 1616 was a member of the Colegio de Pintores of Valencia. His earliest known work is the large Ransomed Christ (1623; Valencia, priv. col., see Pérez Sánchez, pl. 5), which depicts the miraculous ransoming of a statue of Christ that had been captured by Algerian pirates; its naturalism and tenebrist lighting are characteristic of his style, as is its sense of composition and colour, which is similar to that of his contemporaries Francisco and Juan Ribalta.
|
|
There are more than 45,000 articles in The Grove Dictionary of Art.
To access the rest of this article, including the bibliography, subscribe to
www.groveart.com.
To find out more about this subject, click on a related article below and
subscribe to www.groveart.com
|
