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• His apprenticeship was in Seville in which the painter was formed was the
richest and most populated city in Spain, as well as the most cosmopolitan
and open of the Empire. He had a monopoly of trade with America and had
an important colony of Flemish and Italian merchants. It was also an
ecclesiastical seat of great importance and had great painters.