Luis de Morales

Luis de Morales , c.1520-1586, Spanish mannerist painter. He lived and worked in Badajoz. Morales executed vivid portrayals of saints suffering and refined devotional images of the Virgin and Child. Influences of Leonardo da Vinci and of Netherlandish art may be seen in his delicate and precisely executed paintings. The Virgin with the Distaff, Holy Family, and Ecce Homo are at the Hispanic Society, New York City. Other examples of his work are in the Prado and in churches in Badajoz.

Morales, Luis de (d. c.1586). Spanish painter. He worked for most of his life in Badajoz, a town on the Portuguese border, and his style—formed away from the influence of the court or great religious and artistic centres such as Seville—is highly distinctive. His pictures are usually fairly small and he concentrated on devotional images such as the Mater Dolorosa or Ecce Homo, painted with intense spirituality. The piety of his work has earned him the nickname ‘El Divino’. His style owes something to Netherlandish art, but his misty modelling seems to derive more from Leonardo da Vinci.

Morales, Luis de (b ?Badajoz, ?c.1520; d Badajoz, c.1586). Spanish painter. He worked for most of his life in Badajoz, a town on the Portuguese border, and his style—formed away from the influence of the court or great religious and artistic centres such as Seville—is highly distinctive. His pictures are usually fairly small and he concentrated on devotional images such as the Mater Dolorosa or Ecce Homo, painted with intense spirituality. The piety of his work has earned him the nickname El Divino. His style owes something to Netherlandish art, but his misty modelling seems to derive more from Leonardo da Vinci. He is last documented in 1584 and Palomino says he died in about 1586, aged 67.