Vicente Carducho (1570/78–1638)

• Vincenzio Carduccio, sometimes Vicencio or Vicente Carducho.
• Was an Italian painter who spent his career in Spain.
• He was born in Florence and was trained as a painter by his brother Bartolomeo Carduccio, whom he followed to Madrid as a boy.

• He initially painted some works at Valladolid and helped his brother paint the Escorial for Philip II of Spain.

• He returned to the court of Philip III in Madrid in 1606 and helped decorate the recently rebuilt Palacio del Pardo.

• While at work his brother died, and Vicente took his place.

• He was employed for four years by the monks of the Chartreuse of el Paular to decorate their monastery with 54 canvases of historical figures in the great cloister.

• 27 represent the life of St. Bruno, and 27 are of martyrs.

• He worked a great deal for the subsequent monarch, Philip IV of Spain.

• Among his pupils were Juan Rizi, Pedro de Obregón, Vela, Francisco Collantes.

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