page_title: Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca
section_title: Main Reredos
hierarchical_section_title: Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca / Art and Architecture / Main Reredos
caption_attribution_description: Español: Entre las mejores obras de José Benito de Churriguera (1692). La pintura El martirio de San Esteban es de Claudio Coello.
context_page_description: The Convento de San Esteban is a Dominican monastery situated in the Plaza del Concilio de Trento in the city of Salamanca.
context_section_description: The work of José de Churriguera, crowning the head of the church, has six large twisted columns, covered with decorative foliage. In the center is a tabernacle conceived as a pavilion, flanked by a pair of columns on each side, and between those of the two columns at the edges stand niches that harbour the sculptures of St. Dominic of Guzmán and St. Francis of Assis, attributed to the designer of the altarpiece.
  Centered above this is a painting by Claudio Coello whose theme is the martyrdom of St. Stephen.
  Everything is covered with gold and richly decorated, resulting in one of the most monumental Spanish baroque altarpieces.
caption: Main reredos of the monastery church, created in 1692 by José de Churriguera
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