Joan Gasco. Juan Gascó, also known as Joan Gascó, Joan Gascon and Joan Navarro, was a painter from the kingdom of Navarra who was active in Catalonia during the 16th century.
There is no exact news of the date of his birth, which occurred in the city of Tafalla. His stay in Tudela and his possible friendship with Pedro Díaz de Oviedo are known, without documentary references, only for stylistic similarity has he been attributed the possibility that he worked alongside that master and even helped in the painting of the main altarpiece of the cathedral from Tudela.
José Gudiol Ricart was one of the historians who tried to attribute this collaboration to Gascó before his transfer to Catalonia. It is documented in the early sixteenth century established in Vich, where he set up a painting workshop, dedicated especially to the production of altarpieces.
In this workshop he was later helped by his eldest son Perot who accompanied his father in his work in the Vallés, and it already appears together with him, in a notarial deed from 1523 of the parish of Llissá de Munt as magister painters, civitatis Vicensis. The rest of his male children, in a total of four, were added to the paternal workshop, news obtained by the partition, declared by his father in his will, which must be made in equal parts of les mostres de paper et tot el arreu del offici equibus partibus »among his four sons Pere
There is no exact news of the date of his birth, which occurred in the city of Tafalla. His stay in Tudela and his possible friendship with Pedro Díaz de Oviedo are known, without documentary references, only for stylistic similarity has he been attributed the possibility that he worked alongside that master and even helped in the painting of the main altarpiece of the cathedral from Tudela.
José Gudiol Ricart was one of the historians who tried to attribute this collaboration to Gascó before his transfer to Catalonia. It is documented in the early sixteenth century established in Vich, where he set up a painting workshop, dedicated especially to the production of altarpieces.
In this workshop he was later helped by his eldest son Perot who accompanied his father in his work in the Vallés, and it already appears together with him, in a notarial deed from 1523 of the parish of Llissá de Munt as magister painters, civitatis Vicensis. The rest of his male children, in a total of four, were added to the paternal workshop, news obtained by the partition, declared by his father in his will, which must be made in equal parts of les mostres de paper et tot el arreu del offici equibus partibus »among his four sons Pere
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