New data for the biography of Juan de Ochoa, cordovan stonework master of the 16th Century

Abstract

Juan de Ochoa Méndez was a prominent Cordovan architect who worked in the second half of the 16^th Century. His style and particular constructive language fall within the Spanish classicist current of the late 1500s, according to the “maniera italiana”, which refined the Renaissance tradition and set the foundations for the future baroque style during the first years of the 17^th Century. His prolific professional career at the service of the main religious and civil institutions of Córdoba at the time, has recently been reconstructed thanks to the numerous references and documentary data extracted from the main Cordovan archives and particularly the Historical-Provincial Archive.