Juan de Anchieta (Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa, ca. 1533 - Pamplona, 1588) is considered one of the most prominent exponents of Renaissance sculpture in Spain. Through Gaspar Becerra, who he worked with as a skilled assistant on the high altarpiece in Astorga Cathedral between 1558 and 1562, he became influenced by Italian art, particularly that of Michelangelo. Shortly afterwards, in 1563, he moved to Valladolid, where he collaborated with Inocencio Berruguete and Juan Bautista Beltrán on the altarpiece of the church of El Salvador in Simancas, immediately after which he joined the workshop of Juan de Juni, who named him in a document (1577) expressing his final wishes as the sculptor most capable of completing the Medina de Rioseco altarpiece.

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