Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (1600-1667) was a Spanish
Baroque painter. His father was the painter
Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa, who had relocated to that area and gotten married there in 1596. He was the third child, of six. His family returned to Valencia in 1612.[1]
Life and work
He began his artistic training in his father's workshop, where he produced a precocious painting pf
John the Baptist, showing the influence of
Francesc Ribalta. At the age of seventeen he enrolled in the newly created Colegio de Pintores, In 1622, he married Jerònima de Castro, the daughter of a local merchant. The following year, he began a long series of commissions; many of them portraits of the nobility.
In his later years, he was heavily influenced by the works of
Pedro Orrente, especially in his religious compositions. Ribalta's influence continued to be apparent, however.
Many of his most notable works were depictions of the
Virgin and Child, including an "Our Lady of the Rosary" at the
Basilica of Our Virgin of the Homeless [
es] and the "Virgin and Child on a Throne with Angels", now in the
Museo del Prado. Portraits of individual saints were another popular subject. All of his works are signed and dated, making it easy to trace his creative development.
Retrato del padre Jerónimo Mos (Portrait of Father Jerónimo Mos) (205 x 112 cm.), Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.
Visión de San Ignacio (Vision of St. Ignatius), (1621), 425 x 298 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.[2]
Retrato de don Felipe Vives de Cañamás y Mompalau, (1634), 207 x 130, Kingston Lacy, colección Bankes
Muerte de San Luis Beltrán (Death of San Luis Beltrán) (1653), 384 x 227 cm., Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.
Milagros de San Luis Beltrán (1655), Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia (315 x 221 cm.)
Última Cena (Last Supper) (1657), 315 x 221 cm, Santa María church, Morella
Virgen con el Niño
Aparición de la Virgen al venerable Jerónimo Calmell (Apparition of the Virgin by the Venerable Jerónimo Calmell) (1660), 168 x 136 cm, private collection.[3]
Aparición de la Virgen a San Pedro Nolasco (Apparition of the Virgin at San Pedro Nolasco) (315 x 270 cm.), firmado y fechado en 1661, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia
Aparición de San Pedro y San Pablo a Constantino (Apparition of Saints Peter and Paul at Constantine) (245 x 314 cm.), Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.
Benito Doménech, Fernando (1987). Los Ribalta y la pintura valenciana de su tiempo. Madrid : Museo del Prado,
ISBN84-505-6705-X.
Benito Doménech, Fernando, et alii (1996). Cinco siglos de pintura valenciana. Obras del Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia. Madrid : Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Fundación Central Hispano,
ISBN84-920722-6-1.
Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (2000). Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (1600-1667). Valencia: Museo de Bellas Artes.
ISBN84-482-2563-5.
García Mahíques (1995). «Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa y la iconografía de San Ignacio en la Casa Profesa de Valencia». Archivo Español de Arte (Spanish Arts Archive) LXVIII (271). p. 271-282