Luis de Morales

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Madonna and Child, by Luis de Morales. Prado Museum.
Madonna and Child, by Luis de Morales. Prado Museum.

Luis de Morales (1510? - May 9, 1586) was a Spanish painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura. Most of his work was of religious subjects, including many representations of the Madonna and Child and the Passion.

Influenced by Raphael Sanzio and the Lombard school of Leonardo, he was called by his contemporaries "The Divine Morales", because of his skill and the shocking realism of his paintings, and because of the spirituality transmitted by all his work.

[edit] Selected 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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