Sánchez Cotán, Juan

Sánchez Cotán, Juan
(1561-1627)
   Spanish still-life painter from the region of Toledo who almost completely abandoned his career in 1603 when he entered the Carthusian Monastery of Granada as a lay brother. Sánchez Cotán's patrons included the aristocratic and learned citizens of Toledo. For this, scholars have read his works as studies in mathematical arrangements as well as recreations of ancient still lifes said to have been so masterfully rendered as to fool birds into pecking at the fruits depicted. Others have read his works as warnings against gluttony or as spiritual compositions comparable to the literary works of St. Theresa of Avila and other Spanish mystics of the period. One of his most often discussed works is the Still Life with Game Fowl, Fruit, and Vegetables (1602; Madrid, Prado), which, aside from its iconographic significance, presents the staple ingredients of Spanish cuisine, including cardoons, assorted roots, wild fowl, and lemons.

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