Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder

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Virgin of the Fevers, Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Seville.

Juan Bautista Vázquez el Viejo (1510 in

Castile and Leon – 12 June 1588 in Llerena, province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
) was a Spanish sculptor.

Biography

Born in

Santa María la Blanca, and the church of Almonacid de Zorita (province of Guadalajara
), among others.

In 1558, Francisca Blázquez, widow of sculptor Isidro de Villoldo, brought him back to Ávila to complete the figures of the main altarpiece of the Charterhouse of Seville, which Villodo had left unfinished at his death. In 1561 he moved to Seville to complete the altarpiece. He settled there, putting together an important studio with collaborators including his brother-in-law and carver Juan de Oviedo the Elder, Miguel de Adán, Gaspar del Águila, and Jerónimo Hernández.

This studio would play a major role in establishing and consolidating the

Cathedral of Seville, as well as the Church of Saint Mary in Carmona
(1563), the decoration of the
Medina Sidonia (1575); he also sculpted the Virgin of the Fevers (Spanish
: Virgen de las Fiebres) in Seville's Church of Saint Mary Magdalene.

He married three times: to Andrea Hernández, sister of Juan de Oviedo the Elder; to María de Bonilla, daughter of the Sevillian painter Juan de Zamora; and to Isabel de Valdés. He died in Llerena (province of Badajoz). His work was continued by his son Juan Bautista Vázquez the Younger.

References

  • Jane Turner (Editor). Grove Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.).
    ISBN 1-884446-00-0
  • José Hernández Díaz. Andrés de Ocampo.
    ISBN 978-84-505-6092-3
  • Jesús Miguel Palomero Páramo. El retablo sevillano del Renacimiento: Análisis y evolución (1560–1629).
    ISBN 84-500-8806-2
  1. ^ Édouard, Sylvène. "Argo, la galera real de Don Juan de Austria en Lepanto" [Argo, Don John of Austria's Royal Galley at Lepanto] (PDF). RS (in European Spanish). Translated by Real Rodríguez, Cecilia. Patrimonio Nacional: 8, 21. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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