Alonso Kano, a Spanish painter, sculptor, architect, draftsman, studied painting in Seville in F. Paceco’s studio, and sculpture in the studio of H. Martinez Montanes. In 1637, after a duel with one of the Seville artists, Cano fled to Madrid. There, using the support of Velasquez and the patronage of the first minister of the court of Olivares, Cano became a teacher of drawing Crown Prince Baltasar Carlos, but in 1644, a suspect in the murder of his wife, was forced to leave Madrid.
In 1651, Kano went to his native Granada, took the priest’s degree and eventually became the chief cathedral master. Shortly before his death, he performed one of the most original architectural projects in Spain in the XVII century. – the main facade of the cathedral in Granada. Cano’s paintings are considered a less independent field of his creativity than architecture and sculpture, but her calm, restrained lyric character, lack of strenuous drama and soft plasticity of forms, exquisitely-natural coloring attract the viewer.
Throughout his creative career, Kano sought the ideal of sublime feminine beauty, which embodied in the image of the Mother of God, giving him special features and character. In “The Vision of St. Anthony of the Virgin Mary with the Child” Mary appeared in the form of a powerful Celestial Queen. Other famous works: “The Virgin with the Child”. 1630-1640. Prado, Madrid; “Dont touch me”. 1648. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
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