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Estevan [Esteban], Martín

(b late 16th century; d 17th century). Spanish sculptor. He was almost certainly Aragonese and was known as Maestro Estevan. His sole documented work is the altarpiece he made in 1607 for the church of the Asunción de Nuestra Señora in the medieval Cistercian monastery in Rueda, near Escatrón. The work was executed in the Plateresque style, which had by then fallen out of use, since artistic taste was turning towards the Baroque, and so it marked out the artist as a traditionalist. In collaboration with Domingo Borunda, who seems to have been a stonemason, Estevan carved it as a magnificent work of white alabaster. Around 1940 the altarpiece was dismantled and transferred to the parish church of Escatrón; it must have been then that the reliefs of the plinth were lost, the ornaments of flowers, fruit and angels alone remaining. In the principal niche Estevan represented the Immaculate Conception, and in the pediment was the Coronation of the Virgin. The large reliefs on either side represented, on the left, the Annunciation and the Visitation, and on the right, the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi.

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