Juan de Badajoz el Viejo

Juan de Badajoz "el Viejo" was a Spanish Renaissance sculptor, a native of Badajoz, an engraver and architect, who died in 1522.

It is known that in 1498 he worked in León. He was appointed master of the cathedral of this city where he directed the works of the bookstore, built on the north side of the temple to house the great library of the illustrated and humanist bishop Alonso de Valdivieso (from 1486 to 1500). In addition to the direction of the said library, where still resorted to Gothic reminiscences, directed in the same cathedral the construction of the New Doors of the facades and other points of the building. It was known to surround a team of good carvers and carpenters.

Fray Juan de Cusanza (aka Juan de León) ordered the overthrow of the Romanesque chapel of the basilica of San Isidoro de León to build the current one, whose works began in 1513 by Juan de Badajoz.

At his death his son, Juan de Badajoz "El Mozo" succeeded him in many of the works he had commissioned. Bibliography

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