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Curial (or Curiel), Juan Alfonso

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a Neapolitan painter, was born in 1538, and was a pupil of Gio. Filippo Criscuolo; afterwards visited Rome, where he studied the works of Raphael. On his return to Naples he painted for the churches there. His masterpiece was a grand picture of The Crucifixion, in the Chiesa della Pieta. He died in 1610.