(1580-1624)
Spanish painter trained by El Greco in 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 and Tintoretto-like palette, Tristan injected a greater sense of naturalism into his images. His works include the main retable for the Church of Yepes (1616), the altarpiece he created for the Jeronymite Convent in Toledo (1620), now dispersed in various museums around the world, and the Adoration of the Shepherds, part of the retable of Santa Clara (1623; Toledo; Museo de Santa Cruz).
Historical dictionary of Renaissance art. Lilian H. Zirpolo. 2008.