(b Caparroso, Navarre, 1584; d Caparroso, 1653). Spanish sculptor. He was the leading sculptor of the early Baroque period in the Navarre, Rioja and the Basque region, where his activity over a wide area was based on his workshop at Cabredo (Navarre). His art is characterized by a certain dry realism within forms derived from the classicism of Juan de Ancheta, whose pupil Pedro González de San Pedro was Vazcardo’s father-in-law and with whom Vazcardo collaborated. The progressive dryness of his models recalls the work of Gregorio Fernández in the angularity of his draperies, which he could have learnt from works by Fernández in the Basque country, or from one of his followers such as Pedro Jiménez, with whom he collaborated in 1624 on the high altar and four side altars in the parish church of Oyón (Álava).