Note 247 — Chapter XI · TOLEDO.
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Alonso de Covarrubias, Maestro Mayor from 1534 to 1536, mentions among his works the removal of most of the Retablos, which, he says, produced a “detestable effect.” For an account of the Retablo of the principal altar, and the names of the men who executed it, see Ponz, Viage de España, i. 65. It was designed in 1500. See also the Life of Juan de Borgoña, in Diccin., &c., de las Bellas Artes en España, vol. i. p. 163.