Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina

1459–1537 · Northern Renaissance

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, born in Almedina, Spain in c. 1475 and died in Valencia, Kingdom of Spain in 1536, was a Spanish painter. He was one of the most important early Renaissance painters in Spain. Of supposed morisco origin, he travelled to Italy to study fine art, and in the process became familiar with the work of Leonardo da Vinci. After returning to Spain, he collaborated with Hernando de los Llanos on many works.

11 paintings

• Ecce Homo (1515)
• Annunciation (1550)
• Head of Christ (1506)
• Head of Christ (ca. 1506)
• Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John (c. 1505)
• Saint Cosmas (1510)
• Christ presents the Redeemed from Limbo to the Virgin (1510)
• Saint Onuphrius (1520)
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1520)
• Saint Anne, the Virgin, Saint Elisabeth, Saint John and the Child Jesus (1528)
• The Eucharistic Christ (1550)