Praying sculpture of Juana de Zúñiga, widow of Hernán Cortés

Praying statue of Juana de Zúñiga, widow of Hernán Cortes, 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 this widowed Marquise of the Valley of Oaxaca and her descendants and, by her testamentary will, the patron of the House of Alcalá de los Gazules, became the pantheon of this widowed Marquise of the Valley of Oaxaca and her descendants and, by her testamentary will, 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.