Eugenio Caxés was a Spanish

Spain

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

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 period.

He was born into a Florentine

Florence

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 family in Madrid

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, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father, Patricio

Patricio Caxés

Patricio Caxés, Caxesi, or Caxete, was a native of Arezzo. It is not known by whom he was instructed, but he became an artist of sufficient celebrity to be invited to Spain by Philip II, who employed bim in the palaces of Madrid...

, was a disciple of Alessandro Allori

Alessandro Allori

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 and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador Luis de Requesens. Caxés painted in the royal palaces of King Philip II of Spain

Philip II of Spain

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. He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for the Escorial, who died in a fall from a scaffold.

Caxés was commissioned by the administration of King Philip III

Philip III of Spain

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 to decorate the room for royal audiences in Madrid, where he painted a Judgement of Solomon in the vault. He was appointed Painter to the King in August 1612. Most of his works were completed in Madrid. Along with Vincenzo Carducci

Vincenzo Carducci

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 he painted the chapel of Our Lady del Sagrario in Toledo

Toledo, Spain

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, and the canvases of the Retablo Mayor del Monasterio de Guadalupe. He was awarded 11,000 reales for a large historical canvas on the History of Agamemnon

Agamemnon

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(now lost). Among his pupils are Luis Fernandez

Luis Fernández

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and the barrister Valpuesta.

He was the editor of a biography of Spanish painters, called the Abecedario Pittorico. He opposed a fee proposed to extend the alcabala to painters.