Ecce Homo & La Muerte - Gil de Ronza (1480-1534)

Flemish sculptor Gil de Ronza at Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid
"He worked in Spain around 1498 in the city of Toledo. Between 1503 and 1506, his collaboration is known in the choir stalls of the Zamora cathedral, work that he carried out in the workshop of Juan de Bruxelles. Later he was required in Salamanca but finally settled in Zamora where he recorded his activity in the sculptural groups for the funerary chapel of Dean Diego Velázquez de Cepeda, in the convent of San Francisco. Of these groups, the Ecce Homo, a Recumbent and an original sculpture called Death, preserved in the National Museum of Sculpture (Valladolid), are currently known."
La Muerte : "This sculpture belongs to the ambitious sculptural group commissioned to the Flemish artist Gil de Ronza for a funeral chapel in the monastery of San Francisco in Zamora. It depicts the existence, in the late 16th century, of a vision of death marked by fear, a sense of the macabre and the awareness of human misery, and is represented by a decomposing human body. Covered with a shroud and holding aloft the trumpet of Judgement Day, it illustrates the moment of the Resurrection of the dead." https://www.cultura.gob.es/mnescultura/en/colecciones/escultura-espanola/la-muerte.html