Diego Polo the Elder (1560–1600) was a Spanish painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

period. He was born in

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, but studied at

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, under Patricio Caxes, and practiced history. There are some of his works in el Escorial, and in the palace at

, in which city he died. He painted a series of imagined portraits of the Visigothic kings and a ''St. Jerome chastised by an Angel for taking too much pleasure in reading Cicero'', and a ''Penitent Magdalene''. Polo's nephew, also named Diego Polo, was also a painter.

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* 1560 births 1600 deaths People from Burgos 16th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Renaissance painters {{Spain-painter-stub