Arnao de Flandes (literally ''Arnao of Flanders'') or Arnao de Flandes the Elder was a master glassmaker born in

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at an unknown date in the second half of the 15th century. He is believed to have moved to

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between 1480 and 1490 and set up a workshop in

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, producing work for Avila Cathedral (1497),

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(1503) and

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(1511–1515).

Family

His two sons were also glassmakers: *Arnao de Flandes the Younger, is sometimes confused with his father and worked on

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between 1534 and 1557; the *

Arnao de Vergara Arnao de Vergara (probably born in Burgos around 1490, deceased around 1557) was a 16th-century Spanish master glassmaker. Between 1525 and 1536 he produced several windows for Seville Cathedral, many of which survive, before later moving to Granad ...

, produced windows for Seville Cathedral (1525–1538),

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(1525–1528) and the Monastery of Saint Jerome (1544–1550). Alfonso Muñoz Ruiz y Pablo Muñoz Ruiz: ''Las vidrieras descubiertas en Palencia. La escuela castellana''.
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