Luis de Morales
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Luis de Morales (1510? - May 9, 1586) was a Spanish religious painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura.
Most of his work was of religious subject, and the topics of the infance of Christ and the Passion can be widely seen in is paintings. Influenced by Raphael Sanzio and the Lombard school of Leonardo, he was called by his contemporains "The Divine Morales", because of his skill and the shocking realism of his paintings, and because of the spirituality transmited by all his work.
[edit] Outstanding works
- La Virgen del Pajarito (Virgin of the Bird) (1546), kept in the church of San Agustín, in Madrid.
- La Piedad (Pietà) (1560), kept in Badajoz Cathedral.
- San Juan de Ribera (1564), in the Prado Museum, Madrid.
- Ecce Homo, in the Hispanic Society of America.
- La Piedad (Pietà), in the Prado Museum.
- Virgen de la leche (Breastfeeding Virgin), at Prado Museum.
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