Artist
Antonio Varas
Antonio Varas is an Early Baroque Italian artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Antonio Varas painted portraits in early-17th-century Spain. His brush captured the likeness of Don Luis de Góngora in oil around 1622. In a world where faces were carved by social rank, Varas’s work offers a quiet record of one man’s features. Tap to see the Portrait of Don Luis de Góngora—its sober palette and steady gaze feel like a doorway to the Spain of Cervantes and Velázquez.
Works by Antonio Varas
Collections represented
Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000…