Antolinez y Sarabia
Francisco Antolinez y Sarabia
1644-1700
Francisco Antolínez y Sarabia, the nephew of the better known artist Jose Antolínez, was born in Seville in 1644 and died in Madrid in 1700. Throughout his life he was both an artist and a lawyer, without greatly distinguishing himself in either profession. In 1660 he entered the Academy of Seville, where he was probably Murillo's pupil. According to Beruete, he may have also studied under Yriarte. From 1672-76 Antolinez lived in Madrid, the residence of his uncle, returning to Seville after the latter's death in 1676. Preferring to work on a small scale, he is best known for his landscapes and portrait miniatures. Several of his paintings are in the Prado and in Seville. Antolínez, with many other masters of the School of Seville, specialized in the Spanish genre of Paisaje de la Sagrada Escritura: usually a horizontal, rustic Bible scene, decorative in feeling, its religious content subordinated to an arcadian setting. These freely-brushed, romantically rendered scenes owed much to Bolognese and Netherlandish art of the earlier seventeenth century and to the Bassano tradition as brought to Spain by Orrente. The Seville artists reduced Murillo's much larger paintings of similar subjects to a smaller, more domestic scale. However, Murillo may himself have been influenced by the spontaneous, small-scale works of his lesser, younger colleagues. Palomino described the artist as producing these paintings in series of six, eight, or ten, but larger than K484.
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