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The Triumph of the Cross
Creator
Eugenio Cajés (Caxés)Spanish Artist · 1574–1634
All works by this person →Eugenio Cajés learned to paint from his father, a Tuscan painter who had worked in Spain since 1567. As a youth, he visited Italy with his father and must have received training in Florence, since his drawing style owes much to Tuscan artistic models. His earliest commissions were collaborations with his father. Cajés began working for Philip III in 1608, becoming painter to the king in 1612. For
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- about 1613–1634
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash with red chalk over black chalk
- Culture
- Spanish
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ec6459c0-71e4-4dd7-aa20-b0c60c465122
From the Getty Museum record
The steep perspective of the cross and the suggestion of heaven's spatial infinity indicate that Eugenio Cajés probably made this square drawing as a preparatory study for a ceiling painting, probably in a chapel dedicated to the cross. In his late work, Cajés characteristically employed these graceful figures, these rhythmically flowing forms, and this chiaroscuro effect in brush and wash. His convincing illusionism in rendering the cross required extensive knowledge of perspective, which he may have gained from his study of Italian architecture.
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