El sepulcro de doña María Ruiz de Tosantosun conjunto de estilo gótico lineal tardío en la iglesia parroquial de Castilseco (La Rioja)

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Conservation carried out in 2008-10 in the parish church of San Julián of the small hamlet of Castilseco (La Rioja) brought to light an ensemble of Medieval wall paintings. On the ground of the epigraphy displayed on the wall paintings themselves and of the records from the now disappeared nearby Hieronymite monastery of San Miguel del Monte, it is possible identifying this ensemble, located in the south wall of the presbytery of the church, inside and around a pointed niche that once housed a burial, as the tomb of doña María Ruiz de Tosantos, who dictated her will in 1386 ordering her tomb to be fully painted. A close analysis of the wall paintings reveals that they are an outstanding example of the linear Gothic style in its last phase of development that can be attributed to an artist from Burgos, given the prominence of this city in this period and the features of the tomb, which can be related to specimens from Burgos.