Juan Bautista Lázaro de Diego

Juan Bautista Lázaro de Diego (León, 1849[1] - Ciempozuelos, 1919)[2] was a Spanish architect,[3] born to jurist José Benito Lázaro and astorgana María de Diego Pinillos.[1] He was a disciple of Juan de Madrazo, a gothic revivalist in charge of León Cathedral's restoration,[3][4] a project in which Lázaro de Diego took part, specializing in stained glass workmanship.[3] He received a gold medal in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1897 and the Great Cross of Isabella the Catholic in 1901.[5]

Juan Bautista Lázaro de Diego
Church of La Milagrosa or Church of San Vicente de Paul, built between 1900 and 1904, a work by Juan Bautista Lázaro.
Born1849
Died1919
Occupationarchitect
Spouse(s)Águeda de Mora Becerra[1]

From 1875 to 1879 he worked as town-architect in Ávila.[6] He developed a remarkable activity in the restoration of architectural heritage in the late nineteenth century.[7] One of his biggest contributions was the introduction of Catalan vault system in Madrid,[7] after travelling to Barcelona in 1888.[5] He had a stained glass workshop in Ayala street, Madrid, run from 1890 to 1911.[3]

Some of his works are:

In his last years he developed a mental illness,[18] that led him to be interned in the psychiatric sanatorium of San José de Ciempozuelos in 1908, confinement that would last until his death in 1919.[19]

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