(Joigny?, France 1507 ca. – Valladolid 1577)

Juan de Juni was a Burgundian artist and one of the most important Spanish Renaissance sculptors. We know almost nothing about his education and early works, only upon his arrival in León around 1533. His beginnings are documented in several Castilian cities, until he established himself in Valladolid, in the early 1540s. Juan de Juni was a great sculptor, who used stone, wood, alabaster, or baked clay; his pieces have a powerful dramatic and expressive sense, very theatrical, according a special attention to gesture and to the treatment of heavy robes. His figures acquire a monumental conception, composing dynamic foreshortenings, anguished and twisted in a Laocoön style and superbly finished and with a particular treatment of detail. It is precisely because of this emotive intensity, characteristic Burgundian art, as well as the artist’s interest in the Michelangelesque tradition, that his works captivates and entrances viewers today.

Learn more at these sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcjip4s2e0
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Juni
https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/14354/juan-de-juni