Spanish painter. He was active
in Salamanca, at that time an important city due to its double status as
episcopal see and university city, but he also worked in the regions of Leon and
Extremadura, in such cities as Toro, Zamora, Ciudad Rodrigo and Plasencia.
Nothing definite is known about his training, but his plastic concept of form
and his interest in spatial definition link him to 15th-century Flemish
painting, in particular to the style of Rogier van der Weyden and Dieric Bouts
the elder. The similarities between his art and that of the latter, who was
contemporary with him, point to a possible stay in the Low Countries, although
he may also have trained in the circle of Jorge Ingles. Nevertheless, he was an
artist of considerable individuality, defined by an excellent mastery of
technique and an inventive originality, by his interest in realism and by the
characterization of his figures, as well as by an expressiveness similar to that
found in the work of Konrad Witz. At times he achieved in his work a dramatic
intensity unrivalled in Spanish painting of the period.
Flagellation
c. 1506
Museo Diocesano, Salamanca
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Triptych of St Catherine
Provincial Fine Arts Museum, Salamanca
Madonna of the Catholic Kings
1490-95
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Epiphany
c. 1480
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Pieta
c. 1470
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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