Francisco Llamas

Francisco Llamas (active 1700) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, active in Madrid.

He was a pupil of Luca Giordano. On the ceilings of the halls which separate the two cloisters of the College of Monks in El Escorial, he represented The Trinity, The Creation, Chief Doctors of the Church, Chief Philosophers, The Sciences, The Virtues, The Elements, and several other subjects. He also decorated the Cathedral of Ávila, and the Hermitage of our Lady of Prado, near Talavera de la Reina.

References

Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). ‘‘Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical’‘ (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 66.CS1 maint: location (link)

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