Andr?s de la Concha

( fl 1568-1612; d Mexico, 1612). Spanish painter and architect, active in Mexico. In 1568 he went from Spain to Mexico, where he was commissioned to paint the principal retable of the church of the Dominican monastery, Yanhuitl?n, Oaxaca State, with the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple, the Descent from the Cross, the Resurrection, the Ascension, Pentecost, the Last Judgement, the Immaculate Conception, St Jerome, Mary Magdalene, St Luke and St Dominic (1570-75). These reflect his style as a Mannerist painter of the Seville school influenced particularly by Luis de Vargas.

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