Juan de Calderón

Juan de Calderón, a Spanish painter who has been cited in Lima documents (Peru) since 1649. He moved to Cuzco in 1657, when he was hired by the Convent of San Francisco de Cuzco to gild the altarpiece of the chapel of the medicines. In 1659 he collected as a gilder the image of Our Lady Conceived in the Monastery of Santa Clara de Cuzco.

In 1660 he was hired by the church of La Merced to gild the Altarpiece of Altarpiece. The canvases that are in this altarpiece are presumed to be of its authorship, especially the Christ collecting his vestments and the Ecce Homo; and in the Barboza collection there is a Christ, Source of Life, works in which one observes a work attached to the claroscurismo that remembers to the style of Zurbarán.

His works are characterized by wearing flower borders and his Christs remember those of Alonso Cano. Bibliography

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