Juan de la Corte

1597–1660 · Baroque

Juan de la Corte, a Spanish painter of Flemish origin, who was born in Antwerp, Flanders in c. 1590. He was instructed by Velazquez, and painted portraits and history, but chiefly excelled in battle-pieces and perspective views. He also painted small pictures of subjects from sacred history. He was painter to King Phillip III, and was continued in that situation by his successor, King Philip IV. There are several of his pictures in the palace of Buen Retiro. He died at Madrid in 1660.

10 paintings

• Fiesta en la Plaza Mayor (1630)
• Fiesta Real en la Plaza Mayor (1623)
• Battle scene (Sack of Rome in 1527?) (1650)
• Battle (1643)
• The Rape of Helen by Juan de la Corte (1601)
• Aeneas flees the burning Troy with his family (1601)
• A naval battle scene between the Spaniards and Turks. (1650)
• Battle of Gascona and battery in a castle (1650)
• Aeneas and his family fleeing the burning city of Troy, with the Trojan horse in the background (1650)
• The Turks abandon the outskirts of Vienna in 1532 (1650)