Shine of Morals

Shine of Morals , born and died in Badajoz (v. 1510 - v. 1586), is a Spanish painter religious subjects, considered as the first great painter of the Spanish nation.

Its life and its work

One knows few things of his life. Its manner seems to be marked by the Italian school of Michel-Angel, Raphaël and Léonard de Vinci and, more particularly during its second time, by the Flemish school . It could have for Master a Flemish painter, Hernando Sturmio in Badajoz, or Pedro de Campaña has Seville. The king Philippe II, which affectionnait the Italian kind, made him only one order, but a pension granted to him when, towards the end of his life, the painter was stripped.

All its work was painted on wood. Its subjects of predilection are the Pietà , the Ecce Homo and the Vierges with the Child . Its meticulous realism, joined to the naked emotion which emerges from its characters while at the same time they find in prey with an extreme pain, touched much its contemporaries, which called it “ El Divino ”, divine Morales.

Shine of Morals had a son, Cristobal, also painter, like several pupils, among whom Juan Fernández, known as El Labrador. It had also many imitateurs, for the majority followers of the kind mannerist.

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