Route through the Plateresque altarpieces in the east of the province of Leon - CISTIERNA - Church of Christ the King
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This Renaissance altarpiece, from the Vera Cruz de Valderas church and elaborated during the second third of the 16th century, is made up of a golden, polychrome masonry richly decorated with grotesques and candelieri motifs. Through a succession of pilasters and entablatures, the complex is organized into four bodies of three streets. Only the central street of the second body houses an image of the Virgin with the Child, while the rest are occupied by pictorial tables in which, on a group of six apostles that make up the lower floor, episodes of the cycles of the Childhood of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, as well as a group of three tables on the upper floor with images of the Passion.
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Church of Christ the KingMore informationThis Renaissance altarpiece, from the church of Vera Cruz de Valderas and made during the second third of the 16th century, is composed of gilded, polychrome masonry and richly decorated with grotesques...
