In Mexico, the tradition of producing devotional paintings is particularly strong.

The Ayacucho Region is known for its retablos, or devotional paintings.

And it is with devotional painting that this thematically ordered show begins.

A fourth of the generally accepted works are devotional paintings, which were painted during his early career.

In this cast-off body, nothing of the respectful representation found in devotional paintings remains.

He was the pupil of Francisco Ribalta, and painted devotional paintings.

He mainly produced devotional paintings for churches in Cordoba.

But alongside it they will find something quite different in a small devotional painting of the "Pieta."

Prints tended to be religious; they were more affordable to most people than devotional paintings, and often illustrated religious books.

The portrait of "Charlotte" might have been taken from a Flemish devotional painting.