Miguel Verdiguier and Jesus Nazarene of Luques Hospital Chapel altarpiece, Córdoba. Comments for it's history

Abstract

From the abundant list of active foreigners artists in Spain between mid eighteen century and the first decades of nineteen century excels, in the field of Western Andalusia, the French Miguel Verdiguier (1706-1796), sculptor, great master of the baroque of Italian orientation who founded in 1753 the Painting and Sculpture Academy of Marseilles. Years later he appears in Cordova, working for his cathedral chapter and works of the bishopric, with orders in some localities of the province, Luque case, for whose church of the Jesus Nazareno´s Hospital designed in 1776 the altarpiece that presides over its main altar. The documentation consulted in the Hospital´s patronal archive confirms the authorship and other pieces of date in reference to his work.