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Francisco Pacheco

1564 - 1644

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Francisco Pacheco del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644) was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Pacheco has received more than 99,327 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Francisco Pacheco is the 629th most popular painter (down from 550th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from Spain (down from 488th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Spanish Painter.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Francisco Pacheco ranks 629 out of 2,023. Before him are Tom Wesselmann, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Otto van Veen, Domenico Fetti, and John Frederick Kensett. After him are Nicolaes Maes, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Palma il Giovane, Lippo Memmi, Agnolo Gaddi, and Andreas Achenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Francisco Pacheco ranks 10. Before him are Christopher Marlowe, William Adams, Paulo Miki, David Fabricius, Ahmad Sirhindi, and Hans Leo Hassler. After him are Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Federico Borromeo, Joos de Momper, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, Hans Rottenhammer, and John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg. Among people deceased in 1644, Francisco Pacheco ranks 9. Before him are Elisabeth of France, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Cecilia Renata of Austria, Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Bernardo Strozzi, and Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena. After him are Agostino Tassi, Guru Hargobind, Georg Marcgrave, Luis Vélez de Guevara, and Geoffrey Keating.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Pacheco ranks 564 out of 3,355. Before him are Juan de Herrera (1530), Infanta Beatriz of Spain (1909), Jabir ibn Aflah (1100), Ordoño IV of León (926), Gaius Julius Vindex (25), and Infanta Eulalia of Spain (1864). After him are Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867), Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (912), Abraham Zacuto (1452), Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón (1727), Gundemar (600), and Lucio Urtubia (1931).

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Among PAINTERS In Spain

Among painters born in Spain, Francisco Pacheco ranks 14. Before him are Juan Gris (1887), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), Antoni Tàpies (1923), Enrique Simonet (1866), Marià Fortuny (1838), and Remedios Varo (1908). After him are Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531), Ignacio Zuloaga (1870), Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614), Santiago Rusiñol (1861), Francisco Herrera the Elder (1576), and Julio González (1876).

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