Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina
Illustration — Saint Catherine of Alexandria, oil on canvas, c. 1510, in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Fernando (or Hernando) Yáñez de la Almedina, born in Almedina, Spain in c. 1475 and died after 1537, was a Spanish painter.
Also recorded as Fernando Yanez de la Almedina · Ferdinando Yanes · Hernando Spagnolo · Ferrando de Almedina
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Purchase, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund Gift, and Bequest of George D. Pratt, by exchange, 2014 · Public domain (CC0, Met Open Access)
- Born
- 1459 · Almedina.
- Died
- 1537 · Valencia.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- Renaissance
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Saint Catherine of Alexandria, oil on canvas, c. 1510, in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Fernando (or Hernando) Yáñez de la Almedina, born in Almedina, Spain in c. 1475 and died after 1537, was a Spanish painter.
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He was one of the most important early Renaissance painters in Spain. After returning to Spain, he collaborated with Hernando de los Llanos on many works.
• The Virgin with Child and Little (Infant) Saint John [the Baptist] (1505), held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC • Head of Christ (1506), held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art • Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1510), oil on canvas, held by the Museo del Prado.
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1459
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina was born in 1459 at Almedina.
1537
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina died in 1537 at Valencia.
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Almedina.
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scholarly publication
- CHAPTER VII. FERNANDO YÄNEZ DE LA ALMEDINA AND FERNANDO DE LLANOS, The Valencian School in the Early Renaissance, 1953
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1953
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q776171: Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina
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- “Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Bibliography (in Spanish)
• Pedro Miguel Ibáñez Martínez, Fernando Yáñez de Almedina (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, 1 January 1999) • Museo Nacional del Prado, "Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina"
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- 1.Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina. Museo Nacional del Prado.
- 2.Ibáñez Martínez, Pedro Miguel. Fernando Yáñez de Almedina (la incógnita Yáñez). Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 1999. 978-84-8427-022-5.
- 3.Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow, A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art, page 117.
- 4.An Overview of Leonardo's Career and Projects until c. 1500, edited by Claire J. Farago, page 108.
- 5.Richard B. Wernham, The New Cambridge Modern History, page 169.
- 6.Wikimedia Commons, Head of Christ, accessed on 7 August 2026
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scholarly publication
CHAPTER VII. FERNANDO YÄNEZ DE LA ALMEDINA AND FERNANDO DE LLANOS, The Valencian School in the Early Renaissance, 1953Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q776171: Fernando Yáñez de la AlmedinaWikimedia Foundation
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The authorities additionally record the headings Fernando Yanez de la Almedina, Ferdinando Yanes, Hernando Spagnolo, Ferrando de Almedina and Hernando Yáñez. His recorded language was Spanish.
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Museo del Prado, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museu de Belles Arts de València and Museu del Patriarca
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