Pedro De Rubiales

Place: Alburquerque

Biography:

Pedro de Rubiales, also known as Pedro Roviale, was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Alburquerque, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, and was active in Naples, Italy from circa 1548 to 1556. He is known for his collaboration with Giorgio Vasari on frescos for the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the Sala del Fregio in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. He also painted an altarpiece in Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome of the Conversion of St Paul (1545). In Naples, he painted the principal works of a Dead Christ, with the Virgin Mary and St. John in the chapel of the Courts of Justice; and the Descent from the Cross painted for the chapel in the Castel Capuano, where he also painted panels in the ceiling. He is also known for a number of easel paintings, also of religious subjects.