Nineteenth century Mexican painter Jose Salome Pina was born in 1830. He trained at San Carlos Academy with Pelegrà Clave. Pina continued his art education in Paris after winning a scholarship, and later in Rome, becoming a renowned painter of religious works. He returned to Mexico and taught at San Carlos Academy, training, among others, German Gedovius and Diego Rivera. Inevitably his work fell out of favor as religious art gave way to socially conscious, perhaps even political, art. Jose Salome Pina died in 1909. Today Pina is revered as one of Mexico's greatest artists. One of his most well known and loved works is "Samson and Delilah" pictured below.
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