Calle Juan de Juanes

Vicente Juan Masip, known as Juan de Juanes, dominated Valencian painting in the sixteenth century. Born around 1503, he learned the craft in his father’s workshop and, after the altarpiece of Segorbe cathedral in 1531, became the most sought-after artist in his region. He painted almost always religious subjects: Virgins with the Child, holy families and, above all, an Immaculate Conception that set a model copied for generations. His best-known panel, The Last Supper, hangs today in the Prado Museum. He died in 1579 in Bocairent, while working on a church altarpiece. The calle Juan de Juanes runs barely 125 metres in the Adelfas neighbourhood, at the south-eastern edge of the Retiro district. No record survives of why this Valencian painter was chosen here.