Ildefonso Altarpiece [SEP] creator
Ildefonso Altarpiece
The Ildefonso Altarpiece is a triptych painting by Peter Paul Rubens, dating to between 1630 and 1631. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.
It is named after the central panel, which shows Saint Ildefonsus's vision of the Virgin Mary, in which she gave him a "casula". On the side panels are Isabella Clara Eugenia and Albert VII, regents of the Spanish Netherlands, with their patron saints Albert and Elisabeth of Hungary. Albert had founded the Ildefonso Brotherhood in the church of
Miguel Cano
Miguel Cano Pacheco was a Spanish baroque architect and sculptor born in Almodóvar del Campo, father and first master of Alonso Cano, renowned joiner of altarpieces. The reputation of his work and the accumulation of orders motivated that he was moving from the mancheguian city to Granada, with all his family, two months before his son Alonso was born.
Works.
- 1601 Altarpiece of "San Ildefonso" (Granada) Parish.
- 1628 Altarpiece of "Nuestra Señora de la Oliva" (Lebrija)