TRISTAN, LUIS

(1580-1624)

Spanish painter trained byEl Grecoin Toledo. Tristan is documented in El Greco's studio in 1603, and he is known to have been in Italy from 1606 to 1613 where he catered to some of the same clients as his master. Though his style is clearly indebted to El Greco's elongated forms andTintoretto-like palette, Tristan injected a greater sense of naturalism into his images. His works include the main retable for the Church of Yepes (1616), thealtarpiecehe created for the Jeronymite Convent in Toledo (1620), now dispersed in various museums around the world, and theAdoration of the Shepherds, part of the retable of Santa Clara (1623; Toledo; Museo de Santa Cruz).