José Rodeiro’s Ransoming of Frederick 8’ x 24’ oil-on-wood, 1992 (Property of Walkersville High School (MD)).

Picasso believed that Paolo Uccello’s grand manner masterpiece The Battle of San Romano was the greatest art work hanging in the Louvre, Paris; this belief is evident in Picasso’s Guernica. Along with a mere handful of postmodern painters: Judy Baca, Carlo Maria Mariani, and Malcolm Morley, José Rodeiro has consistently and bravely tried to revive the grand manner in the late-20th and 21st Century.