Vasco de la Zarza, a preeminent sculptor from Avila, made this alabaster tomb of the bishop and scholar Alonso Fernández de Madrigal, nicknamed El Tostado. It is located in the back of Avila Cathedral. It is one of the finest examples of Spanish Renaissance funerary sculpture
Collection: Images
Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe., 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe.
Chronology: XVI
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate
Resource type: Image
Format: Alabaster
Source: Catedral de Ávila
Language: Spanish
Date: c. 1520-1524
Owner: Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez (Modernalia)
Copyright: Public domain
Abstract: Power elites, Cultural history
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