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Pablo da San Leocadio or Paolo da Reggio (10 September 1447 – c. 1520) was an Italian painter from Reggio Emilia, who was mostly active in Spain.
Historia de los Frescos de la Catedral
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Pablo da San Leocadio or Paolo da Reggio (10 September 1447 – c. 1520) was an Italian painter from Reggio Emilia, who was mostly active in Spain.
Biography
In the 1450s or 1460 he moved to Ferrara, where he was influenced by local painters such as Bono da Ferrara andErcole de' Roberti
Ercole de' Roberti (c. 1451 – 1496), also known as Ercole Ferrarese or Ercole da Ferrara, was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance and the School of Ferrara. He was profiled in Vasari's ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, sculto ...
. In 1472 he sailed from Ostia to Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...
, for Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, the future Pope Alexander VI.
He painted, in 1506, in conjunction with Francesco Pagano, the doors of the high altar of the cathedral of Valencia, with subjects from the Life of the Virgin
The Life of the Virgin, showing narrative scenes from the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a common subject for pictorial cycles in Christian art, often complementing, or forming part of, a cycle on the Life of Christ. In both cases the ...
. His other works include a ''Virgin of the Grace'' in the church of San Miguel at Enguera
Enguera ( ca-valencia, Énguera) is a municipality in southwestern province of Valencia, Spain.
The local economy depends primarily on agriculture, and secondarily on industry and services. In recent years, agricultural crops, especially olives, ...
(province of Valencia
Valencia ( ca-valencia, València) is a province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community. Of the province's over 2.5 million people (2018), one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the au ...
), a ''St. Michael'' in the Diocesan Museum of Valencia, the ''Virgin of the Knight of Montesa'' in the Museo del Prado of Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
and the ''Holy Conversation'' in the National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...
, London.
See also
*Route of the Borgias
The Route of the Borgias is a cultural route, that includes sites associated with the Borja or ''Borgia'', located in their native Valencian Community, Spain. The marketing of the route was inaugurated in 2007.Source: ABCPaseo por la his ...
References
*Danilo Morini, Giovanni Pio Palazzi, Benedetto Morini – ''Un pittore reggiano in Spagna – Paolo da San Leocadio''; da ''Reggio Storia'' n° 114, Reggio Emilia 2007 *Ximo Company i Climent – ''Paolo da San Leocadio i els inicis de la pintura del Reinaixement a Espanya'', Gandia 2007. *Ximo Company, ''Il Rinascimento di Paolo da San Leocadio'', Palermo, Gruppo editoriale Kalos, 2009 Attribution: *External links
Historia de los Frescos de la Catedral
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