Title

Virgin Mary Praying

Author

Flugo, Giraldo de

?, ca 1512 - Cuenca, 1591

Gómez, Gonzalo

Cuenca, 1531 - Cuenca, before 1586

Typology

School

Date

Century

Technique

Support

Observations

25 September 1578: ‘eleven thousand two hundred and twenty maravedies paid to Giraldo de Flugo sculptor for the alabaster image of Our Lady that is in the choir’.
Libro de fábrica de la catedral de Cuenca (ACC, Libro de fábrica, 1548-1590, fols. 200, 201v.). (Rokiski 2010, p. 83).

3 June 1578: a payment is made to the painter Gonzalo Gómez for polychroming this sculpture. (Rokiski 2010, p. 83).

Located above the Presidential Chair of the Choir.

Bibliography

• M. L. Rokiski Lázaro (2010): Escultores del siglo XVI en Cuenca, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca, Cuenca, p. 83, il. 4-5.
• Pedro Miguel Ibáñez Martínez (1990): "El escultor Giraldo de Flugo", Boletín del Museo e Instituto "Camón Aznar", nº 42, p. 103.

Locations

• 1578: Cuenca Cathedral, Cuenca (Spain)