Abstract EN:

Among those french sculptors rushing to spain during the first part of the xvith century, etienne jamet, born in orleans (1515), becomes esteban jamete, and is to be remarked for three main reasons: -contemporaneous of juan de juni, apprentice of felipe vigarny, two other french artists, he differs from them by the continuity of his classical style and an hispanism limited to profuseness and thickness of the ornament, far from either pathos or coldness, and always included in rigorous architectural frames; - inspired by humanists, his sculptures constitute most of the time programmes where classical symbolism take a large part, and are dealt with in an italian spirit; - suspected of lutheranism, he is arrested by the inquisition in 1557, and the manuscript of his trial porvide us notably with his itinerary though spain, divided in ten years travelling from old castile to andalusia, then twenty years of relative isolation in cuenca, where he died in 1565. -his most important works are in the salvador church of ubeda and in the cathedral of cuenca.