José Claudio Antolinez was a Spanish

Spain

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

Career and personality

Antolinez was born and died in Madrid

Madrid

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. He received his early training at the studio of Francisco Rizi

Francisco Rizi

Francisco Rizi was a Spanish painter born at Madrid.He was the son of Antonio Rizi, a native of Bologna, who had accompanied Federico Zuccari into Spain....

.

His '"haughty character and sarcastic personality gained him many enemies among his contemporaries". Some note he played maddening jokes on his colleagues Claudio Coello

Claudio Coello

Claudio Coello was a Spanish Baroque painter. Influenced by many other artists, including Diego Velázquez who was also of Portuguese descent, Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century....

 and Cabezalero as well as Itizi, whom he called painter of wall ornaments, in allusion to the latter's decoration of the hall of comedies in the Palace of Buen Retiro

Parque del Buen Retiro

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; but also impelled likely by his jealousy at lacking the same skill. Antolinez also painted religious paintings.