Biography

This artist is known as the Master of the Eleven Thousand Virgins because of his painting *Saint Ursula with the Eleven Thousand Virgins* (Prado Museum, Madrid). He was active in the province of Segovia between 1490 and 1500, where other works are also documented, such asThe Coronation of the Virgin, The Imposition of the Chasuble on Saint Ildefonsus, andThe Assumption of the Virgin (Prado Museum, Madrid). His style has been linked to the Master of the Parral (Rodríguez, 1962; Silva, 2004), who also worked in the province of Segovia and whose most characteristic work is Saint Jerome in His Scriptorium (Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid). Among the defining characteristics of the Master of the Eleven Thousand Virgins is the expressive quality of his works, an element most evident in the eyes (Post, 1933; Ricart, 1955; Lafuente Ferrari, 1965; Camón Aznar, 1966).

Bibliography

• CAMÓN AZNAR, José (1966): Pintura medieval española (Summa Artis, vol. XXII), Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, p. 632.
• CRUZADA VILAAMIL, Gregorio (1865): Catálogo provisional historial y razonado del Museo Nacional de Pinturas, Imprenta de Manuel Galiano, Madrid.
• GUDIOL RICART, José (1955): Pintura gótica (Ars Hispaniae, vol. IX), Editorial Plus-Ultra, Madrid, p. 352.
• LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique (1965): El Prado. Del Románico al Greco, Aguilar, Madrid, p. 99.
• POST, Chandler Rathfon (1933): A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 4 (The Hispano-Flemish Style in North-Western Spain), nº 2, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), pp. 451-456.
• RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ, Rosario (1962): "La pintura segoviana en los siglos XV y XVI", vol. 14, nº 43, Estudios Segovianos, pp. 391-408.
• SILVA MAROTO, Pilar (2004): "San Jerónimo en el scriptorium", en Grandes maestros del Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Fundación Lázaro Galdiano y Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, La Coruña, pp. 90-91.