Spanish painter. He worked in Madrid where he lived around the parish of San Sebastián, the Madrid “neighbourhood of artists.” He worked in the late- Mannerist style practiced at the court in the first decades of the seventeenth century.
Sisera was a cruel Canaanite leader who ruled the Israelites for twenty years. Barak defeated his nine hundred charioteers by a surprise Israelite attack. Sisera escaped and sought refuge in the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite. She gave the terrified Canaanite sanctuary. When he fell asleep, she drove a tent peg into his brain. The act fulfilled the prediction of Debora, prophetess and Israelite leader, who foresaw that a woman would slay Sisera.
