Benito Manuel Agüero

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

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.

Agüero was born in Burgos. He was a favorite of the King Philip IV.[1] He was a pupil of Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. He died in Madrid.

References

1. Boni, Page 8

Further reading

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 9.CS1 maint: location (link)
• 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)