Bartolomé González y Serrano: A Master of Royal Portraiture Bartolomé González y Serrano (1564–1627) stands as a pivotal figure in the Spanish Baroque artistic landscape, renowned primarily for his prolific output of royal portraits—a genre that solidified his reputation as one of the era’s foremost artists and cemented his legacy within the annals of art history. His work embodies the stylistic convergence of Renaissance court tradit…