ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the tomb monument of Don Pedro lvarez de Toledo, younger brother of the Duke of Alba and Spanish viceroy of the Regno di Napoli from 1532. The iconography and patronage of Spanish tomb monuments are today topics of vital interest among historians and art historians. Historians of sculpture have lately done path-breaking work on formal and iconographic aspects of Don Pedro's tomb. Don Pedro had, however, already commissioned a splendid tomb for himself and his wife that remains in Naples in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, a church built on Don Pedro's instructions in a strategic position overlooking the harbour and close to the Spanish Quarter. This handsome tomb has only lately drawn considerable scholarly attention. If the chapter pause to reflect on how modern scholarship has acquired its knowledge of early modern funeral monuments, broadly speaking it has added little to the analysis of English antiquary John Weever's Ancient funerall monuments, published in 1631.
