# POLO, Bernardo [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Profession: painter - School: Spanish ## Biography Spanish painter, active in Zaragoza, the capital of Aragón, during the third quarter of the 17th century. According to the contemporary biographer Antonio Palomino, he had a 'very special skill' for painting flowers. The unknown painter of a corpus of over forty still-lifes by the same hand, named as 'Pseudo-Hiepes' on account of the paintings' stylistic affinities with the work of the Valencian still-life painter Tomás Hiepes, was identified with Bernardo Polo. ## Related artworks - [Still-Life]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()