CAYETANO DE ACOSTA (Lisboa, 1709 - Sevilla, 1778)

Immaculate Conception Carved, gilded and polychromed wood with eyes in vitreous paste With pedestal: 125 x 56 x 42 cm It has faults._x000D_. _x000D_. Cayetano Acosta can be considered one of the most characteristic altarpiece architects and sculptors of the third quarter of the 18th century in Seville. With him, the architecture of altarpieces in the Andalusian capital reached its peak, leaving countless works throughout the archbishopric. According to several studies and documentation of the time, the Portuguese was already in Seville since 1750. _x000D_. _x000D_. His traces are characterized by a great dynamic richness in the constructive elements, but mainly by the lavish decoration of rockery that covers the whole device (as it happens in the pedestal of the sculpture that concerns us) and by the so outstanding intervention that the sculpture has in the composition. Of his innumerable works, the altar-pieces of the church of the convent of Santa Rosalia and those of the Collegiate Church of the Saviour, in Seville, are worthy of mention, which suffice to qualify in a high degree the aesthetic criterion of this architect-sculptor. _x000D_. It is to be suspected that Acosta did many works as yet unidentified as the one we are concerned with, since he was in Seville for thirty years and enjoyed the necessary prestige to carry out numerous commissions, both ecclesiastical and private. _x000D_.