Biography

The Maestro de Mambrillas is named after the altarpiece he made in the provincial church of Mambrillas de Lara (Burgos). Post (1947) considered that he knew the Italian style of the early Cinquecento, as well as the works of Jan Mostaert, Bernart van Orley and the Mannerists of Antwerp. His works are notable for the special attention he devotes to landscape and drapery; moreover, his anatomies are irregular and his canon mannerist. Post (1947) attributed numerous paintings to this artist, however, today many of them have been questioned. Among his works are Crucifixion with donor (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid) and the Altarpiece of the Church of Mambrillas de Lara (Burgos).

Bibliography

• POST, Chandler Rathfon (1947): A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 9 (The Beginning of the Renaissance in Castile and Leon), nº 1, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), pp. 626-629.