Vicente Giner

Castelló de la Plana 1636 - Rome 1681

By: Alfonso Pérez Sánchez

This Valencian painter who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century specialised in architectural perspectives. He is known to have been in Rome in 1680, where, with other Spanish artists, he petitioned King Charles II of Spain to establish a Spanish Academy in Rome. He appears to have developed his style directly in the studio of Viviano Codazzi, an Italian specialist in the same genre. His painting is characterised by fantastic architectures, created with a meticulous level of draughtsmanship.