Diego de la Cruz (c. 1460-1500)

• Was a Spanish painter who may have been of Flemish origin.
• He was active in Burgos and the neighboring region.
• He was long forgotten, until being rediscovered in 1966, thanks to a study by José Gudiol, who proposed that he was born in Flanders around 1460 and arrived in Spain before the first group of Flemish painters arrived.
• His artistic personality is largely defined by two works: Cristo de Varón de Dolores entre la Virgen y San Juan, at the Museo del Prado; and the Estigmatización de San Francisco de Asís at the Iglesia de San Esteban de Burgos (1487-1489).
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