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Vergara, Nicolas de
sculptor, painter, and architect; d. 1606.
A son and pupil of Nicolas de Vergara, a painter and sculptor. In 1573 he succeeded his father as sculptor and painter of the cathedral of Toledo (Spain). He made the fine bronze and iron lateral lecterns of the choir, and designed the new Sagrario, or chapel of he Host, which was finished by Monegro. In 1575 he designed the church of the Bernardine nuns at Toledo, and in 1595 a chapel for the relics of the Jeronymites of Guadalupe (Spain).
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