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Fernández cit., p. 158. This is the earliest ostensorium to 2003, p. 477, fig. 496. The Villaveta altarpiece (1609–1613)
which Fernández contributed. The altarpiece, designed by has an ostensorium with reliefs and statues by Fernández, in
the architect Francisco de Mora, had canvases by Vicente which two sculptures depicting Moses and Aaron are
Carducho and sculptures by Pompei Leoni. The entire located on the second tier.
project was commissioned in 1605 by Juan de Muniátegui,
who reserved the right to produce the ostensorium, ‘...in 13 A. BUSTAMANTE GARCÍA, ‘Gregorio Fernández en Tudela
accordance with the sculpture and size depicted in our de Duero (Valladolid)’, in Boletín del Seminario de Estudios
sketch’, as he wrote in the margin of the contract. The de Arte y Arqueología, XL–XLI, 1975, pp. 672–674.
Museo Nacional de Escultura of Valladolid houses many of
the surviving elements from this altarpiece, of which Urrea 14 E. GARCÍA CHICO, Documentos para la historia del arte en
Fernández has identified four figurines of the Virtues, which Castilla Escultores, Valladolid 1941, pp. 127–132.
he has attributed to Gregorio Fernández. The tabernacle
door, which is carved with a relief of the Salvator Mundi, 15 MARTÍN GONZÁLEZ, ‘Un tabernáculo de Gregorio
has been attributed to Fernández by Martín González. Fernández’ cit., p. 517 and note 6. A manuscript, written in
1702 by Don Ildefonso Francés Gil, parish priest of
11 MARTÍN GONZÁLEZ, El escultor Gregorio Fernández cit., Villaverta, notes the 1626 acquisition date for the work
p. 159, no. 107a. when it was purchased by the Carmelites and is cited in A.
E. PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ, ‘Noticias sobre obras de arte en un
12 See also the documentary references of the altarpiece and pueblo burgalés’, in Revista de la Universidad Complutense,
its analysis in MARTÍN GONZÁLEZ, El escultor Gregorio XXI, no. 83, Madrid 1972.
Fernández cit., pp. 96–100 and sheets 46–52; M. ANGEL
MARCOS VILLÁN and A. MARÍA FRAILE GÓMEz, Catálogo 16 On other works by Gregorio Fernández for the
monumental de la Provincia de Valladolid. Tomo XVIII. Carmelitas friars of Burgos, see also the catalogue of the
Antiguo Partido Judicial de Medina del Campo, Valladolid exhibition Gregorio Fernández 1576–1636 cit., p. 100.
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