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Samaniego y Jaramillo, Manuel
(b San Blas, Quito, c. 1767; d Quito, 1824). Ecuadorian painter. He was a pupil of his relative Bernardo Rodríguez, with whom he painted the frescoes depicting scenes of the Life of Christ on the tympanum of the central nave of Quito Cathedral. He subsequently painted the large canvas of the Death of the Virgin in the canons’ choir of the same cathedral. Other religious paintings include the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi and the Last Supper. His favourite themes, such as the Immaculate Conception, are depicted with the Holy Trinity and in settings full of cherubs and little angels. Samaniego y Jaramillo’s style is characterized by his use of shades of blue, which give a feeling of transparency to his passages of landscape as well as a sense of harmony and serenity to the paintings as a whole. These effects are, however, subordinated to the realism of his scenes and to the careful depiction of the figures. He also painted miniatures in oil and portraits of leading contemporary figures.
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