Pedro de Mena y Medrano

de Menas Mater Dolorosa at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid .

Pedro de Mena , and Pedro de Mena (* around 1628 in Granada , † 13. October 1688 in Málaga ) one was Spanish sculptor of the Baroque .

Mena y Medrano, whose exact date of birth is unknown, but whose baptismal certificate is dated August 20, 1628, completed training as a sculptor with Alonso Cano , head of the Sevillian sculpture school , in the mid-1650s . From 1658 he worked in the Spanish city of Málaga, where in four years he created 40 wooden reliefs on the choir stalls of the cathedral ( Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica de la Encarnación ), which are perceived as very realistic and at the same time characterized by deep religiousness. Other well-known works by Mena y Medrano are a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi from 1663, which can be seen in the Cathedral of Toledo , and Saint Mary Magdalene in the Museo Nacional de Excultura in Valladolid .

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Brockhaus Kunst, 2001, p. 745.
City Guide Málaga ( Memento of April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Meyers Lexikon Online ( Memento from December 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME	Mena y Medrano, Pedro de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mena, Pedro de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized August 20, 1628
PLACE OF BIRTH	Granada
DATE OF DEATH	October 13, 1688
Place of death	Málaga