High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ventura Rodriguez Tizon (July 14, 1717 – September 26, 1785) was a Spanish architect and artist. Born at Ciempozuelos, Rodriguez was the son of a bricklayer. In 1727, he collaborated with his father in the work at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez.Ventura's career was remarkably prolific. Between 1749 and 1753, he built the parish church of San Marcos in Madrid. In 1752, he was named the director of architectural studies a the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.In 1750, he was commissioned with finishing and remodeling the basilica del Pilar of Zaragoza. Earlier plans by Felipe Businac, Felipe Sanchez, and Francisco de Herrera the Younger had not satisfied the demands of the municipality, a convenient distance from the river and proper alignment with the icon and other buildings. In the cathedral of Cuenca, Ventura was asked to construct a Transparente(a glass-roofed altar complex) similar to that made by Narciso Tome in the Cathedral of Toledo.

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