ALMONACID, Sebastián de
(b. ca. 1460, Torrijos, d. 1526, ?)

Tomb of Martin Vázquez (detail)

1490s
Marble
Cathedral, Sigüenza

Almonacid is thought to have carved the tomb of Martin Vázquez de Arce in Sigüenza cathedral. The idealized realism of the effigy is one of the supreme achievements of Spanish plastic art.