MATEO DE PRADO EN EL MONASTERIO DE CONXO

Abstract

In view of the recent attribution of the sculpture of St. Andrew in the monastery of Conxo, in Santiago de Compostela, to the great sculptor José Ferreiro, it is argued in this article that the images and of St. Joseph are a century earlier and, on the basis of existing documentary data and a formal and stylistic analysis of both sculptures, that they are the work of Mateo de Prado, a pupil of Gregario Femández who worked in Compostela in the second third of the 17th century. They are therefore perfect representatives of the Baroque world and in no way neoclassical.