Juan de Nalda

Mass of Saint Gregory, oil on panel, 157 x 78 cm, Madrid, National Archaeological Museum. Juan de Nalda (active 1490-1510) was a Spanish painter in the Flemish style.

He was the son of an embroiderer active in Navarrete in La Rioja. In November 1493 documents record him in the studio of Jean Changenet, an Avignon-based French painter, who died late in 1494 or early in 1495. De Nalda's style shows heavy influence from the Avignon School of Provencal art, with its clear colours and simple volumes producing a calm atmosphere and composition.

Pilar Silva Maroto later attributed the Saint John the Baptist from the Visitation Altarpiece in Palencia Cathedral to de Nalda and the anonymous 'Master of the Visitation' on stylistic grounds as a commission from canon Juan de Ayllón, He also attributed a Saint Gregory of unknown provenance (in the Prado since 1926) to de Nalda.