Fray juan bautista maino biography
Friar Juan Bautista Maíno, or Mayno (October , Pastrana – 1 April , Madrid) was a Spanish Baroque painter....
Biography
Juan Bautista Maino (or Mayno), Spanish painter. He was born in Pastrana (Guadalajara), the son of a Milanese father and Portuguese mother, who was in the service of the princess of Eboli.
There is a tradition that he was a pupil of El Greco in Toledo, but there is no suggestion of this in Maino's clear and firm style, which was formed in Italy c.
Biography.
1600-10. Knowledge of Maino's stay in Italy is based on the brief mention of a seventeenth-century writer, who refers to him as a disciple of Annibale Carracci and friend of Guido Reni, which, if accurate, would date his Roman sojourn to the first five or six years of the century.
Around 1608 or 1609, Maino had returned to his native town, where he painted a Trinity for a lateral altar in the church of the Franciscanas Concepcionistas, a work that lends credibility to his putative friendship with Guido Reni.
By March 1611, Maino had moved to Toledo and was working for the cathedral, restoring a fresco in the cloister.
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