Alonso Vázquez (1565 – c. 1608)
• Was a Spanish sculptor and painter.
• Vázquez was born in Ronda.
• Learned painting in the school of Arfian at Seville.
• He passed through the usual apprenticeship "sargas" (inexpensive paintings on rough canvas) leading to frescoes and oils on wood panels.
• He painted a series of canvases on the Life of St. Raymond, for the cloister of the friars of the Order of Mercy.
• He was also one of the artists chosen by the city of Seville to paint the great catafalque erected in the Cathedral at the time of public mourning for the death of Philip II.
• Vázquez traveled to Mexico in 1603 as part of the retinue of the viceroy of New Spain Juan de Mendoza y Luna.
• In the five years preceding his death in 1608,
Vázquez provided key works for the development of the Mexican viceregal school.
