Bajorrelieve sepulcral

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Beautiful bronze bas-relief that remembers Don Francisco Duarte de Mendicosa, a Navarrese military man assigned to Seville as General Provisioner of the Armadas and Armies, and his wife, Mrs. Catalina de Alcocer. In Renaissance style, it presents late medieval details, characteristic of Burgundian funerary art, which brings its authorship close to an artist from that origin. Founder together with his wife of the Convent of the Mínimos de la Victoria, in Triana, at his death, in 1554, received burial in it, as afterwards Mrs. Catalina. In 1840, after the convent's desamortization, the relief was transferred to the Church of the Annunciation. He wears the wife tightly bound brial and the knight elegant armor; on the breastplate, just like in the heraldic shield, the double-headed eagle of the House of Austria stands out. The heads of the spouses rest on pillows and their feet on expressive lions