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Villoldo, Isidro
(b ?Avila, c. 1500; d Seville, before 26 May 1556). Spanish sculptor. His activity was centred on Ávila, where he established a personal Mannerist style, influenced by Alonso Berruguete, but tempered by an excellent technique and with an additional Italian influence. In 1538 Villoldo was paid for a model of the choir-stalls for Avila Cathedral and in 1544 he helped to complete them. In 1539 he was described as an ‘oficial’ of Berruguete in connection with work on the choir in Toledo Cathedral, where he also worked in 1543. Between 1546 and 1549 he carved the alabaster retable, dedicated to S Segundo, in the crossing of Ávila Cathedral. The alabaster retable in the sacristy of the same cathedral, on which he collaborated (1551–5) with Juan de Frias, has a fine Flagellation group on the central panel and a high relief of the Ecce homo framed by curtains. In 1553 Villoldo signed a contract with the Carthusian monastery of the Cuevas, Seville, for statues on their retable, which were only partly executed (fragments in situ). The value of the retable in wood of St Antolin, in Ávila Cathedral, was assessed in 1557, after his death.
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