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Francisco Pacheco

1564 - 1644

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Francisco Pérez del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644), known by his pseudonym Francisco Pacheco, was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Alonso Cano and Diego Velázquez, as well as the latter's father-in-law. His textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, published posthumously, is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He is described by some as the "Vasari of Seville": vocal and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francisco Pacheco is the 497th most popular painter (up from 629th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Spain (up from 564th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Spanish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Francisco Pacheco ranks 497 out of 2,023. Before him are Matthäus Merian, Grant Wood, Guo Xi, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Eugène Atget, and Arman. After him are Parrhasius, Leonor Fini, Carlo Dolci, John La Farge, Anselm Feuerbach, and Jan Lievens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Francisco Pacheco ranks 8. Before him are William Shakespeare, William Adams, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Christopher Marlowe, Paulo Miki, and David Fabricius. After him are Hans Leo Hassler, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Federico Borromeo, Joos de Momper, and Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara. Among people deceased in 1644, Francisco Pacheco ranks 8. Before him are Elisabeth of France, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Chongzhen Emperor, Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Cecilia Renata of Austria, and Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena. After him are Bernardo Strozzi, Agostino Tassi, Guru Hargobind, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Georg Marcgrave, and Geoffrey Keating.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Pacheco ranks 435 out of 3,355. Before him are Leander of Seville (534), Sisebut (565), Miguel Induráin (1964), Ordoño III of León (926), Juan, Count of Montizón (1822), and Bermudo II of León (953). After him are Juan de Grijalva (1480), Luisa de Guzmán (1613), Sebastián de Belalcázar (1480), Antonio Cañizares Llovera (1945), Egica (610), and Anne Hidalgo (1959).

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Among PAINTERS In Spain

Among painters born in Spain, Francisco Pacheco ranks 12. Before him are Francisco de Zurbarán (1598), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617), Juan Gris (1887), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), Antoni Tàpies (1923), and Enrique Simonet (1866). After him are Remedios Varo (1908), Marià Fortuny (1838), Santiago Rusiñol (1861), Josefa de Óbidos (1630), Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531), and Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560).

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