This Jusepe Leonardo canvas celebrates the Dutch-occupied fort of Jülich capitulating to the siege led by the Spanish under Ambrosio Spinola. The troubled painter saw his petition to be the official court painter denied in 1638; ten years later he died in a sanitarium in Zaragoza.
The Surrender of Jülich, c.1635, Oil on CanvasJusepe Leonardo Spanish (1601 - 1653) |
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This Jusepe Leonardo canvas celebrates the Dutch-occupied fort of Jülich capitulating to the siege led by the Spanish under Ambrosio Spinola. The troubled painter saw his petition to be the official court painter denied in 1638; ten years later he died in a sanitarium in Zaragoza. |
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