# Choir-stalls

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MENA, Pedro de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Cedarwood

## Commentary

Pedro de Mena was the most outstanding personality of the school of Seville. He was active in Granada but settled in Málaga in 1658 to create the choir-stalls of the cathedral. They are perhaps the most original works of Spanish sculpture. He finished the job started 28 years earlier by sculptor Jaén Luis Ortiz de Varga.

## Related artworks

- [Choir-stalls \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-detail-r12fb076bc45f08>)
- [Choir-stalls \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-detail-r23775c15e659da>)
- [Choir-stalls \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/choir-stalls-detail-r926721f4cae1e6>)
- [Infant Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/infant-christ-r110c86810e1243>)
- [Penitent Magdalene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/penitent-magdalene-r15ee43a34e4dbf>)
- [St Francis of Assisi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/st-francis-of-assisi-r564b11506fa44c>)
- [St Peter of Alcántara](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/st-peter-of-alcntara-r4d0d973a32bc45>)
- [The Virgin of Solitude](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mena-pedro-de-r80bff7f6e16770/the-virgin-of-solitude-rd541c7da4eadc4>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)