Brief Biography-Baltasar de Echave Orio, writer and painter, reached Mexico from Zumaya in the Basque Country, in 1573. He married Isabel de Ibía, daughter of the artist Francisco de Ibía, wo was referred to as Francisco of Zumaya, she is said to have tutored Baltasar. He had two sons, Baltasar and Manuel, who also became painters. His works were exclusively made up of religious subject and were in the style of Florentine Mannerism. He painted in several churches in Mexico, paintings in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City have been attributed to him. The artist Luis Juárez was one of his students. His most noted literary work was Discourses of the Antiquity of the Cantabrian Language.