ABSTRACT
The monument of Bishop Alonso Ribera de Madrigal, also known as “El Tostado”, in the Cathedral of Avila ranks among the outstanding tomb monuments of the first decades of the 16th century in Castile. The monument of Alonso de Madrigal in the Cathedral was erected on the outside of the capilla mayor along the ambulatory. The bishop’s monument was thought to have been finished in 1518, but the publication of documents by M. J. Ruiz-Ayucar in 1981 revealed that the tomb was already under way and even possibly finished in 1511. As such, his image follows closely the iconographical model of the “Autorbild”, showing the Bishop as a scholar at work. The commission for the new tomb monument came, as the documents show, from this chapter of the cathedral. In those years, from 1497 to 1514, Don Alonso Carillo de Albornoz was bishop of Avila.
