| Maino,
Fray Juan Bautista (b. 1581, Pastrana, d. 1649, Madrid) |
| Juan Bautista Maino (or Mayno), Spanish painter. There is a tradition that he was a pupil of El Greco in Toledo, but there is no suggestion of this in Maino's clear and firm style, which was formed in Italy c. 1600-10. In about 1620 he moved from Toledo to Madrid, where he worked for Philip III and Philip IV (whose drawing master he had been) and was a friend of Velázquez. Maino was a Dominican priest as well as an artist, but although he painted religious works, he is most highly regarded for his portraits, outstanding among which is the formidably characterized Dominican Monk (Ashmolean, Oxford, c.1635). |