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2 unusual facts about Domenico Fancelli


Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Quiñones

Later, his remains were transferred to the Catedral de Santa María de la Sede de Sevilla to a marble sepulcher made by Domenico Fancelli and commissioned by his brother, Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones.

Domenico Fancelli

His great influence on Spanish sculpture can be seen in the work of such artists as Vasco de la Zarza.


Bartolomé Ordóñez

Assuming this is correct, he would have grown up amidst the first flowering of the Spanish Renaissance, where such pioneers as Andrés de Nájera were working, under the influence of Gil de Siloé, who had studied in Italy, and Domenico Fancelli, who was from Italy.

Granadan school of sculpture

The tomb of the Catholic Monarchs was the work of Italian sculptor Domenico Fancelli; the tomb of Joanna of Castile and Philip I of Castile the work of Bartolomé Ordóñez; the great altarpiece was by Felipe Bigarny and pieces such as the Incarnation and the Entombment of Christ-now in the Museum-by Jacopo Torni of Florence.


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