Route through the Plateresque altarpieces in the east of the province of Leon - JOARA - Church of San Andrés
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Altarpiece from the second quarter of the 16th century made up of three sections and seven streets, the outer ones, which house bulk images of the evangelists with their corresponding symbol of the Tetramorph, smaller in size. The first of the bodies, raised on a plinth decorated with busts and panels of grotesques, contains in its central street a tabernacle whose door is adorned with a relief of the Resurrection, while the central street of the second and third bodies houses the images round bundle of Saint Andrew and The Coronation of the Virgin, respectively. In the side streets different brush stories are incorporated about the hagiography and martyrdom of the titular saint, Saint Andrew, and the Passion of Christ, works by the painter Cristóbal de Colmenares, who, according to a contract dated 1541, also gilded the masonry.
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St. Andrew's ChurchMore informationAltarpiece from the second quarter of the 16th century composed of three sections and seven streets, the exterior ones housing bulk images of the evangelists with their corresponding smaller symbol of...
