La obra de los entalladores afincados en Barrado Francisco Ventura y José Manuel de la Incera Velasco

The article examines the work of the woodcarvers based in Barrado, Francisco Ventura and José Manuel de la Incera Velasco, altarpiece masters in the Vera de Plasencia, and expands their biography and corpus. It documents their participation in altarpieces in the region, especially those of Navaconcejo, Jarandilla, Barrado, Jaraíz de la Vera and Jerte, revealing the continuity of an active workshop during the eighteenth century. The core of the study is the analysis of the main altarpiece of San Miguel in Jaraíz de la Vera, a Baroque-rococo structure organised with a predella, a body of three bays and an attic adapted to the apse. It discusses the panels with medallions showing the Devil and Saint Michael, the tabernacle with the Heavenly Jerusalem, the niche with the Virgin of los Remedios and the attic presided over by Saint Michael the Archangel, together with black-shafted columns covered with gilded vegetal ornament. Archival documents date the contract to 1750, for 7,500 reales, its execution between 1750 and 1752, and the gilding carried out in 1767-1768 by the gilder Alonso Recuero. The article concludes that these altarpieces mark the transition from Baroque to Rococo in the area and underline relevance of the Barrado workshop.