The Marriage Feast at Cana

The Gothic style and an essentially medieval, narative naturalism continued to characterize Castilian painting until well into the sixteenth century. This survival of archaic formulas is partially attributable to certain painters of foreign origin, for example, the Flemish painter known Juan de Flandes, who from 1496 was employed in the service of Isabella of Castile. Juan de Flandes remained essentially an expressionist painter beneath the virtuosity of his Flemish technique.