(b Murcia, 1580; d Valencia, Jan 19, 1645). Spanish painter. He is one of the most interesting artists of his day. His father, Jaime Orrente, was a merchant from Marseille, his mother, Isabel Jumilla, from Murcia. By 1600 Orrente was active in Toledo, where he was commissioned to paint a retable (untraced). In 1607 and again in 1611 he was in Murcia, and a journey to Italy recorded by Jusepe Martínez and Palomino must have taken place between those years. It seems certain that he visited Venice and met Leandro Bassano (see Bassano, Leandro), who deeply influenced his style; later Orrente became known as the ‘Spanish Bassano’. His paintings also show traces of Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto—from the former his taste for complex and sumptuous theatrical effects, seen in the Adoration of the Magi (c. 1626–32; Toledo Cathedral), and from the latter his taste for daring foreshortening and stormy cloud-racked skies. Sometimes echoes of Titian are evident, and on occasion he copied Titian literally, as in ...