Juan Francés

Juan Francés was a sculptor and a lawyer who lived between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the initiator of a Toledo school of rejería, named by the authors as the greatest teacher of iron weapons in Spain. Despite his surname he must have been French, and he was one of the oldest and most eminent teachers of Castile. History

He developed most of his activity in Toledo, being named master of rexas of the cathedral church of the city, destiny of many of his works, emphasizing among them the one that realized in 1494 for the Old Tabernacle, the one of the chapel of Mozarab in 1524 or the chapel of San Martin, among others.

Another of his works was the bars of the chapel and choir of the cathedral of El Burgo de Osma (1505), the chapel of the cathedral of San Justo and Pastor of Alcalá de Henares, as well as in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela or in the cathedral of the Magdalena of Getafe.

Also attributed the bars of the choir, front and sides of the main chapel of the cathedral of Avila, as well as its pulpits; the gate that separates the chapel of Santiago from that of the Assumption of the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Siguenza, where the chapels of the Annunciation, Santa Librada, San Pedro and Santa Catalina are also attributed to it; and finally the fence of the presbytery of the convent of San Juan de la Penitencia de Toledo.

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