La traza de los antiguos retablos mayores clasicistas de dos iglesias parroquiales de Lalín: Santiago de Catasós y San Xoán de Vilanova

Abstract

The sculptor Juan de Villoldo, presumably linked to an active family of artists in Castille in the last third of the 16_th Century, undertook the construction of the high altarpieces of the parish churches of Santiago de Catasós and San Xoán de Vilanova in 1586, situated in Lalin (Pontevedra). In order to do this he uses a design requested by the parishioners of the first curacy. The plan shows the elevation of an altarpiece that brings together most of the typical features of the classicist trend. Through it, there is evidence of his lack of skill at drawing and of his failure to adapt to new aesthetic tendencies, since he uses architectural elements (such as the balaustrade-style column) that had fallen into disuse in the last decades of the aforementioned century.