(b Jerez de la Frontera, 1630; d Seville, 1723). Spanish silversmith. In 1674 he made the portable monstrance of S Miguel in his native city; its great height and complexity show his liking for ornamentation. Two years later he was approved as a master silversmith in Seville, and from 1677 he worked as the cathedral silversmith there. In 1686 he executed the sacristy of Morón de la Frontera, Seville, and in 1692 he completed the stationary monstrance in the church of La Magdalena in Seville. Cristobál Sánchez de la Rosa ( fl 1675; d 1707) had begun this monstrance in 1678, and Pina transformed the type of structure that had been made a century earlier by the Mannerist goldsmith Francisco de Alfaro ( fl 1574–1601) into a completely Baroque work. In 1695 he donated a sacristy to S Sepulcro de Jerusalén as an act of devotion, and in 1699 he donated a pax for the sanctuary of Aim-Karin (in situ). Pina’s most important project was the great silver and bronze urn (1690–1701 and 1717–19; in situ) that holds the body of St Ferdinand III of Castile (1199–1252) in the royal chapel of Seville Cathedral, executed in collaboration with Manuel Guerrero and Lorenzo Nicolás de Villalobos. He also executed the busts of St Lawrence and St Pius for the cathedral, as well as constructing the antependium of S Leandro (1717). His principal followers were José Caballero ( fl 1713) and Manuel Guerrero. The latter succeeded Pina as the Seville Cathedral silversmith.

• Pina, Juan Laureana de
  • Seville, §III: Centre of metalwork production
  • Spain, §IX, 1(iii): Gold and silver, c 1606–c 1700