Miguel Xim?nez

( fl Saragossa, 1462; d 1505). Spanish painter. He was of Castilian origin and worked in Aragon during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. His workshop in Saragossa was inherited by his son Juan, who was also a painter and a follower. Between 1482 and 1496 Miguel Xim?nez collaborated with the painter Mart?n Bernart of Saragossa on a series of altarpieces, notably the high altar retable (1485; Saragossa, Mus. Prov. B.A.) from the church at Blesa (Teruel), which depicts the Legend of the True Cross. In his independent works, the altarpiece (Madrid, Prado) for S Mar?a, Ejea de los Caballeros (Saragossa), that of the Virgin of Villaverde in the church at Luna (Saragossa) and that of St Martin of Tours for S Pablo, Saragossa (Saragossa, Mus. Prov. B.A.), a development is noticeable from a Gothic style of Netherlandish and German origin, influenced by Rogier van der Weyden and Martin Schongauer, to the more naturalistic language of the Renaissance, with experiments in perspective and modelling.

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