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CESPEDES (in Ital. CEDASPE), PABLO DE (1538—1608)  , See also:Spanish poet, painter, sculptor and architect, was See also:born at See also:Cordova, and was educated at Alcals de Henares, where he studied See also:theology and See also:Oriental See also:languages . On leaving the university, he went to See also:Rome, where he became the See also:pupil and friend of Federigo See also:Zuccaro, under whose direction he studied particularly the See also:works of See also:Raphael and of See also:Michelangelo . In 156o, while yet in Rome, proceedings were taken against him by the See also:Inquisition at See also:Valladolid on See also:account of a See also:letter which, found among the papers of the See also:archbishop of See also:Toledo, had been written by See also:Cespedes during the preceding See also:year, and in which he had spoken with See also:great freedom against the See also:holy See also:office and the inquisitor-See also:general, Fernando de See also:Valdes . Cespedes remained in Rome at this See also:critical moment, and he appears sightly to have treated the See also:prosecution with derision . It is not known how he contrived to bring the proceedings to an end; he returned, however, to See also:Spain a little before 1577, and in that year was installed in a prebend of the See also:cathedral at Cordova, where he resided till his See also:death . Pablo de Cespedes has been called the most savant of Spanish artists . According to his friend Francisco See also:Pacheco, to whom posterity is indebted for the preservation of all of Cespedes's See also:verse that is extant, the school of See also:Seville owes to him its introduction to the practice of See also:chiaroscuro . He was a bold and correct draughtsman, a skilful anatomist, a See also:master of See also:colour and See also:composition; and the See also:influence he exerted to the See also:advantage of See also:early Spanish See also:art was considerable . Cristobal de See also:Vera, Juan de Pefialosa and Zambrano were among his pupils . His best picture is a Last Supper at Cordova, but there are See also:good examples of his See also:work at Seville and at See also:Madrid . Cespedes was author of several opuscules in See also:prose on subjects connected with his profession . Of his poem on The Art of See also:Painting enough was preserved by Pacheco to enable us to See also:form an See also:opinion of the whole .

It is esteemed the best didactic verse in Spanish; and it has been compared, not disadvantageously, with the Georgics . It is written in strong and sonorous octaves, in the majestic declamatory vein of Fernando See also:

Herrera, and is not altogether so dull and lifeless as is most didactic verse . It contains a glowing eulogy of Michelangelo, and some excellent See also:advice to See also:young painters, insisting particularly on hard work and on the study of nature . The few fragments yet remaining,. amounting in all to some six See also:hundred lines, were first printed by Pacheco in his See also:treatise Del See also:ark de la pintura, in 1649 .

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