(b Lucena, Córdoba, 6 Feb 1669; d Priego, Córdoba, 30 June 1725). Spanish architect. He was one of the leading Baroque architects active in southern Spain in the early 18th century. His use of decoration earned him criticism as a ‘heretic’ by Neo-classical writers (e.g. Llanguno y Amirola). He started as an ensamblador, a carver of wooden retables, such as that of the high altar of S Lorenzo, Córdoba (1696). He was practising as an architect almost simultaneously, however: his first attributed work is the camarín—a small chapel behind the altar for the display of the sacrament—in the church of La Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga (begun 1693). The octagonal walls and vault are covered with foliated stucco decoration; in a crypt beneath is the rectangular burial chamber of the counts of Buenavista, with groin vaults supported by four central columns. The sacristy (1703) of Córdoba Cathedral, also octagonal but with a dome, has a more modest and architectonic version of the same decoration, which became influential in Andalusia.

• Hurtado Izquierdo, Francisco
  • collaboration
    • Sánchez de Rueda, Teodosio
    • Spain, §IV, 3(ii): Sculpture, c 1600–c 1750: High Baroque and Rococo
  • groups and movements
    • Churrigueresque
  • works
    • Duque Cornejo, Pedro
    • Frame, §VIII, 5(ii): Spanish Baroque: Development
    • Granada, §I, 3: History and urban development, c 1600 and after
    • Málaga, §1: History and urban development
    • Paular, el
    • Spain, §II, 3: Architecture, c 1600–c 1750