Diego Polo the Elder (1560 - 1600) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere He was born in Burgos, but studied at Madrid, under Patricio Caxes, and praticed history. History Early man of Neanderthal occupied sites around Burgos as early as 800000 years ago Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. There are some of his works in el Escorial, and in the palace at Madrid, in which city he died. El Escorial is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery royal palace museum and school Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. 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.
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 305.