Word: marqu
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...artist, there were lesser prelates, rich merchants and prosperous scholars who became his patrons. He got commissions for altarpieces in funerary chapels and seminary churches, and for portraits of rich patrons. By 1585 he had signed a lease for a 24-room apartment in the palace of the Marqués de Villena and had established a flourishing business. At times, things were so good that he employed a whole workshop of subsidiary artisans who turned out frames and smaller duplicates of his larger works. He even had an orchestra play for his dining. At other times, he fell...