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Title

Tomb of the Constables

Author

Bigarny, Philippe

Langrés (Borgoña), ca. 1475 - Toledo, 1543

Bigarny, Philippe [workshop of]

Langrés (Borgoña), ca. 1475 - Toledo, 1543

Date
d. 1525
Century
First half of the XVIth c.
Dimensions
2 x 1,50 m
Technique
Sculpture
Support
Carrara Marble, Jasper
Inscriptions

At the end of the tomb of sir Pedro Fernández de Velasco, by the feet of the sculpture, there is a plaque with the following inscription: "Aquí yace el muy ilustre señor don Pedro Fernández de Velasco, condestable de Castilla, Señor del Estado y Gran Casa de Velasco, hijo de Don Pedro Hernández de Velasco y de Doña Beatriz Manrique, condes de Haro. Murió de setenta y siete años. Anno de mil quatrocientos y noventa y dos. Siendo solo visrey destos Reinos por los Reyes Católicos". ["Here lies the most illustrious Lord Don Pedro Fernández de Velasco, Constable of Castile, Lord of the State and the Great House of Velasco, son of Don Pedro Hernández de Velasco and Doña Beatriz Manrique, Counts of Haro. He passed at the age of seventy-seven in the year fourteen hundred and ninety-two. He was the sole viceroy of these Kingdoms for the Catholic Monarchs".]

The tomb of Lady Mencía de Mendoza follows the same structure, her laudative plaque states the following: "Aquí yace la muy Ilustre Sennora Donna Mencía de Mendoza, condesa de Haro, muger del condestable don Pedro Hernández de Velasco, hija de Don Iñigo López de Mendoza y Donna Catalina de Figueroa, Marqueses de Santillana. Murió de setenta y nueva años. Anno de mil y quinientos". ["Here lies the most illustrious Lady Donna Mencía de Mendoza, Countess of Haro, wife of Constable Don Pedro Hernández de Velasco, daughter of Don Iñigo López de Mendoza and Donna Catalina de Figueroa, Marquis of Santillana. She passed at the age of seventy-nine in the year fifteen hundred".]

Observations

Bigarny signed the contract in 1525. In 1532, the Constable requested for the tomb to be made of Genoa marble, although later on they changed it to Carrara marble. (Río de la Hoz 2001, p. 230).

Bibliography