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Paolo [Pablo] da [de; di] San Leocadio
(b Reggio Emilia, 10 Sept 1447; d Valencia, c. 1520). Italian painter, active in Spain. He was trained in the school of Padua-Ferrara, where among others he was influenced by Andrea Mantegna, Cosimo Tura and Francesco del Cossa. In 1472 he accompanied Cardinal Rodrigo Lenzuoli-Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI in 1492, to Valencia. The Renaissance style that Paolo introduced to Valencia was very influential, and he was greatly admired by his Spanish contemporaries. In 1472 he was contracted with the Neapolitan Francesco Pagano ( fl 1471–89) to paint the frescoes of the high altar of Valencia Cathedral with themes devoted to the Life of the Virgin, the earliest examples of Renaissance painting in Spain (destr. except for a trial fragment: Birth of Christ and Adoration of the Shepherds, 1472–6; in situ). This work, and the famous Virgen del Caballero de Montesa (1473–6; Madrid, Prado) attributed to Paolo, reflects a complete assimilation of painting all’antica conceived in the Padua-Ferrara style. The Vitruvian organization of these compositions and their rational and intelligent use of space and of gradations of light and colour are further evidence that he introduced new Italian pictorial concepts to Spain.
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