Pedro Roviale

Pedro Roviale (or de Rubiales etc) (c. 1511 - 1582)[1] was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period, active in Naples, Italy from circa 1548 to 1556.

It is now generally accepted that he was the same person as Francesco Ruviali who is recorded working in Rome around 1544 to 1546.

[3] According to Bernardo de' Dominici, the biographer of Neapolitan artists, he was a native of Spain, from Alburquerque, Badajoz, Extremadura,[4] but brought up in Naples.

He painted an altarpiece in Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome of the Conversion of St Paul (1545; still in situ).

[6] His principal works at Naples are a Dead Christ, with the Virgin Mary and St. John in the chapel of the Courts of Justice; and the Descent from the Cross painted for the chapel in the Castel Capuano, where he also painted panels in the ceiling.