Francisco Venegas (painter)

He was a student of Luis de Vargas, and spent a period in Rome, where he could observe the Italian Mannerist art of the time, as the works of Bartholomeus Spranger and Hans Speckaert.

All that survives of this endeavor is one preparatory drawing, which is stored in the Office of the National Museum of Ancient Art.

An important work of Venegas still remaining in the original location is the altarpiece of the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz (Church of Our Lady of Light) in Lisbon.

The paintings are placed in a large wooden altarpiece in Mannerist style, in the chancel of the church built by Jérôme de Rouen between 1575 and 1590.

Another important work of Venegas is the illusionist painting the wooden ceiling of the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon, a large composition that combines classic architecture with many sham medallions with religious images.