Oil on board. Framed measurements: 175 x 122 cm, canvas measurements: 152 x 97 cm. Born in Almendralejo between 1502 and 1506, he studied alongside his father, the painter Juan de Vargas; He went to Italy very young, where, apparently, he spent most of his life and where he completed his training working in the circle of Raphael s immediate followers, among whom Perino del Vaga stands out. There he must have painted his youthful work, which has not yet been recognized, and wrote his diary in the Tuscan language to which the biographers refer and which unfortunately has not been preserved. Back in Seville, when he is about to turn 50, he works in the city and achieves great fame in his artistic circles; he died in that city in 1567, after having contributed to the renewal of Andalusian painting, by consolidating in the Sevillian school the Romanist forms introduced by the flamenco Pedro de Campaña. Francisco Pacheco, to whom his best profile is due, included in the Book of Portraits, transmitted a series of compliments about him that are not limited to the field of painting but concern the human field itself, highlighting, with fulfilled examples, his modesty and religiosity. Reference bibliography: "DE LA BANDA Y VARGAS, Antonio: Luis de Vargas"