San Bartolome. Circle Of Felipe Bigarny. De Burgos School (spain). First Third XVIth Century.

San Bartolome. Burgos. First third of the 16th century. It is a piece that is difficult to attribute to a particular master. It must have been part of an altarpiece bench or else be attached to a flat niche, as evidenced by the flat shape of the backrest and its shallow depth. Normally in Spanish altarpiece carvings that go into niches, the back is not carved because they were not going to be seen, but the sides are carved, so they retain the impression of a round shape if viewed from the side. Only the back remained excavated. On the other hand, this sculpture is strictly speaking a high relief, both because of the few measurements of its depth, and because of the aforementioned flatness of the back. The sculpture has archaic elements in the 16th century, both because of the way the head is resolved, with an elongated face and serpentine beard, and because of the summary of the size of its folding. There are bigarnist memories, added to a superficial assimilation of certain elements of siloesque aesthetics. Therefore, I consider it to be a Burgos work from the first third of the 16th century, by an unknown master from the circle of Felipe Bigarny. It must be taken into account that very little is known about the secondary masters of the hearth of Burgos at the time, which makes it difficult to link him to a specific sculptor.