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Francisco Camilo:
Spanish painter (b. 1615, Madrid, d. 1673, Madrid)
was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born at Bassano del Grappa near Venice, the eldest son of Jacopo Bassano and grandson of Francesco da Ponte the Elder. He studied with his father and worked in the Bassano family workshop along with his three brothers, including Giambattista and Girolamo. He moved to Venice where he ran the branch of the family business, and where he was employed to paint a series of historical pictures in the Doge's Palace, but prone to hypochondria and other ailments, committed suicide by throwing self-defenestration soon after his father's death in 1592.
Adoration of the Magi
83 x 119 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao This painting of intense colours shows Italian, particularly Venetian influences. The composition follows the example of Paolo Veronese's paintings of the same subject, painted one century earlier. This probably can be partly explained by the Italian origin of the artist
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