Eugenio Caxés

He was born into a Florentine family in Madrid, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete).

His father, Patricio, was a disciple of Alessandro Allori and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador Luis de Requesens.

He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for the Escorial, who died in a fall from a scaffold.

Caxés was commissioned by the administration of King Philip III to decorate the room for royal audiences in Madrid, where he painted a Judgment of Solomon in the vault.

The Prado Museum[1] owns an ensemble of paintings and drawings by Caxés, and also at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando another religious work Embrace at the Golden Gate[2] can be seen.