Route through the Plateresque altarpieces in the east of the province of Leon - SAHAGÚN - Church of San Tirso. Chapel of the Brotherhood of Jesús Nazareno and Patronage of San José
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Chapel of the Brotherhood of Jesús Nazareno and Patronage of San José.
Baroque masonry dating from around 1730, the altarpiece located at the head of the chapel incorporates eight Renaissance bas-reliefs from the one that Dona Isabel de Quiñones had commissioned in 1545 from the image maker Juan de Angés and the carver Guillén Doncel for the family chapel that she had in the convent of Santa María de Trianos. The busts of the Evangelists, in the form of medallions, are located in the side streets of the predella and the main body, but the greatest prominence is dominated by the reliefs of the Holy Burial of the central street of the bank, The Prayer in the Garden and Jesus with the cross on the sides of the main body and the Descent from the attic, which were inspired by engravings from northern Europe such as those made by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden. Restored in 2003.
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