San Diego Museum of Art
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The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine arts museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. The San Diego Museum of Art opened as The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed its name to the San Diego Museum of Art in 1978. The official Balboa Park website calls the San Diego Museum of Art "the region's oldest and largest art museum". Nearly half a million people visit the museum each year.
Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, The Arrest of Christ, c. 1515, oil on panel
Juan Sánchez Cotán, 1602, Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
Simon Vouet, c. 1635, Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy
Juan Sánchez Cotán
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Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes and bodegones were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy.
Sánchez Cotán painted several Catholic works for the Carthusians, like The Carthusians Building the First Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas; after 1603, Granada Charterhouse.
Sánchez Cotán utilized motifs of Tenebrism in several of his religious works, such as The Virgin Waking the Child; 1603–27, 110 × 84 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada.