Praying sculpture of Catalina Cortés, daughter of Hernán Cortés.

1575

Praying statue of Catalina Cortés, daughter of Hernán Cortes and Juana de Zúñiga, carved in 1575 for the main chapel of the convent of Madre de Dios in Seville which, from 1570, by capitulation with the Dominican community, became the pantheon of the marquise widow of the Valley of Oaxaca and her descendants, became the pantheon of the widowed Marquise of the Valley of Oaxaca and her descendants and, by the will of the aforementioned Marquise, the patronage of the House of Alcalá de los Gazules, of which her daughter, Juana Cortés Ramirez de Arellano, wife of the 2nd Duke of Alcalá, was to be the first patroness.

TECHNIQUE

Sculpting

MATERIA

Marble

DIMENSIONS

Height: 122.00cm; Width: 75.00cm; Depth: 110.00cm

LOCATION

Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas