Saint James the Greater; 1489-93; Made in Burgos; Castile-Le髇; Spain; Spanish; Alabaster with paint and gilding; 18 1/16 x 6 7/8 x 4 15/16 in. (45.9 x 17.4 x 12.5 cm); Sculpture-Stone; Gil de Siloe (Spanish; active 1475-1505); In 1486; Isabel of Castile; patroness of the explorer Christopher Columbus; commissioned an elaborate alabaster tomb for her parents; Juan II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal. This star-shaped tomb; still standing in the center of the church of the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores; outside Burgos; was made between 1489 and 1493 by Gil de Siloe; a sculptor thought to be of Netherlandish origin