biography
pronunciation:
[seelohay ]
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| lived:
| (1495–1563)
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| biography:
| Castilian sculptor. He exercised a decisive influence in the change of direction of the sculpture of Burgos during the first third of the 16th-c. The son of Gil de Siloé, he acquired the primary rudiments of his art in Burgos and, while still a young man, he went to Italy (c.1517). On his return to Burgos his style, although inspired by Italian art, became typically Spanish by contact with the land of Castile. In 1519 he undertook to build the tomb of Don Luis de Acuña. During 1519–23 he finished the Golden Staircase of the Cathedral of Burgos. In 1523 he began his phase of collaboration with Vigamy on the reredos of St Peter in the Chapel of Condestable, and a little later the two of them designed the main reredos of the same Chapel. Other works include Saint Casilda (1524), the Holy Family with the infant Saint John (Valladolid), and the Scourging of Christ (Cathedral of Burgos). In 1528 he moved to the city of Granada in order to work on the main Chapel of San Jerónimo. |
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