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 272 Sculpture is the Seventeenth Century. principal works are the figures of Providence, and of the Four Chief Rivers of Austria, on the fountain in the market-plape of Vienna. In Spain, in the seventeenth century, the celebrated Fig. 113.— Equestrian Statue of the Elector of Saxony. By Scldiiter. painter Alonzo Cano of Granada (1601 — 1667) gained considerable celebrity by his beautiful altar for the Church of Lebrija which he designed and carved himself. It is considered one of the finest existing works of the kind : the Virgin holding the Infant Jesus, in the centre of the reredos, is especially well executed.