Paolo de San Leocadio

1445 – 1520

Italian painter. He worked in Spain, for much of the time in Valencia, and was considerably influenced by the Spanish taste for Netherlandish painting. In the 1450s or 1460 he moved to Ferrara, where he was influenced by local painters such as Bono da Ferrara and Ercole de' Roberti. In 1472 he sailed from Ostia to Valencia, as part of the entourage of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, the future pope Alexander VI. He painted, in 1506, in cooperation with Francesco Pagano (active 1471-1506), the doors of the high altar of the cathedral of Valencia, with subjects from the Life of the Virgin. His other works include a Virgin of the Grace in the church of San Miguel at Enguera (province of Valencia), a St. Michael in the Diocesan Museum, Valencia, the Virgin of the Knight of Montesa in the Museo del Prado, Madrid and the Holy Conversation in the National Gallery, London.

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