(b Seville, 14 Aug 1678; d Cordoba, 1757). Spanish sculptor. He was the grandson of Pedro Rold?n (see ROLD?N, (1)) and the leading Sevillian sculptor in the first half of the 18th century. He learnt the art of sculpture from his grandfather and painting and polychromy from his mother, Francisca Rold?n Villavicencio, Rold?n's daughter. Duque Cornejo was active as a draughtsman, designer of altarpieces and engraver of designs for use by goldsmiths as well as a sculptor in both wood and stone. One of his earliest commissions (1706-9) was a retable for the church of the Sagrario, Seville, with the architectural elements by Jer?nimo de Balb?s (destr. 1824; figure of St Clement, in situ). Balb?s used Duque Cornejo's design in 1717 for a retable in the Capilla de los Reyes, Mexico Cathedral.
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