Benito Manuel Agüero

Benito Manuel Agüero, Landscape with Aeneas leaving Carthage.

Vista del Campillo, oil on canvas (55 x 198 cm.), El Escorial, now deposited at the Museo del Prado.

Benito Manuel Agüero (1624–1668) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Madrid as a landscape and battle painter.

Career

Agüero was born in Burgos and was trained under Alonso Cano. Agüero's work included landscapes and representations of mythology and religion. He also contributed to the Buen Retiro and Aranjuez palace decorations.

He was a favorite of the King Philip IV. He was a pupil of Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. He died in Madrid.

Further reading

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 9.
• Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. p. 6.
• Aterido Fernández, Ángel, Corpus Alonso Cano: documentos y textos, Madrid, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, 2002, ISBN 978-84-369-3494-6 p. 249.
• Fernández García, Matías, Parroquia madrileña de San Sebastián. Algunos personajes de su archivo, Madrid, 1995, ISBN 978-84-87943-39-3, p. 133.
• Barrio Moya, José Luis, El platero palentino Melchor de Astudillo, tasador de las joyas y objetos de plata de doña Bernardina Hurtado y Valdivieso (1665), PITTM, 80, Palencia, 2009, pp. 493–502, p. 495.
• Palomino, Antonio (1988). El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones. ISBN 978-84-03-88005-4.
• Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). Baroque Painting in Spain 1600–1750. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN 978-84-376-0994-2.
• Urrea, Jesús y otros (1995). Painters During the Reign of Philip IV (Pintores del reinado de Felipe IV). Madrid : Museo del Prado. ISBN 978-84-606-2078-5.

External links

• Benito Manuel Agüero at the Museo del Prado. (in Spanish)