Francisco Venegas Biography
(fl 1578; d ?1594). Spanish painter, goldsmith and wood-carver, active in Portugal. According to da Costa, he was first trained as a goldsmith. He was apprenticed in Seville in the workshop of Luis de Vargas (1506-68), studying the early Roman Mannerists and being especially influenced by the work of Perino del Vaga, who had taught Vargas in Rome and Naples. It is not known exactly when Venegas went to Portugal, though it was before the annexation of the Portuguese crown in 1580, as his elegant drawing of the Last Judgement (Lisbon, Mus. N.A. Ant.) is dedicated to King Henry, which must date it to c. 1578. This drawing, in an agitated Mannerist style, contains figures that are mainly copies after Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel. It is not known whether Venegas ever visited Rome or if the drawing derives from his studies in Vargas’s studio.
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