UNKNOWN MASTER, Spanish
(active around 1500 in Toledo)

Don Garcia da Osorio (detail)

1499-1505
Alabaster
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

This effigy of Don García de Osorio (d. after 1502) is a pendant to that of his wife, Doña María de Perea (d. 1499). Both effigies were originally placed in the church of San Pedro at Ocaña near Toledo in Spain, but they were removed when the church was declared structurally unsound in 1906. Don García holds a sword (some of which is now missing). He wears the shell of the Order of Santiago on his hat; the mantle of the Order is worn over his armour.