Andrés Marzo

Frontispiece of the book by Juan Bautista Valda, solemn feasts, celebrated by Valencia, to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, Valencia, 1663. Engraved engraving, 190 x 130 mm, signed "Apud Villagrasa / A. March invenit // J. Caudí f. An. 1663.

Andrés Marzo (documented in 1663) was an active Baroque Spanish painter in Valencia.

Cean Bermudez, following Orellana, says disciple of Ribalta, although many years separate the death of the master of the only signed work of March, the drawing - recorded by José Caudí - for the frontispiece of solemn feasts , celebrated by Valencia, to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, a treatise written by Juan Bautista Valda and printed by Jerónimo Villagrasa in Valencia, 1663, with the description of the celebrations celebrated on December 8, 1661 in honor of the bull Sollicitudo omnium With two distinctly different registers, in the earthly space the pope appears giving the bull to the ambassador of Spain, Luis Crespí de Borja, in the presence of King Felipe himself IV and the six jurors of the city.The composition, of which there are two preparatory drawings in the Museum of the Prado and in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, reproduced a stamp to previous and more complete distributed during the festive celebrations.

A San Antonio de Padua is also documented in the church of Santa Catalina, already mentioned by Ceán in the name of March, although it was once assigned to Ribalta, and another canvas of the same subject in the parish of Santa Cruz, in addition of an oil of San Pascual Bailón that belonged to the painter Jose Camarón, although none of it seems to have been conserved. Notes Bibliography

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