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(b Cádiz, 1704; d Mexico, 1774). Spanish architect, active in Mexico. In his earlier career he had served as Maestro Mayor at Cádiz Cathedral, but he moved to Mexico around 1731, where he initially worked at the Mint. He came under the influence of Jerónimo de Balbás, whose use of the estípite in Mexico Cathedral attracted his admiration. Rodríguez’s most important work was the Sagrario Chapel at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, for which he presented a plan in 1749. The two south and east façades of the chapel (which adjoins the cathedral) are conceived as stonework retables bounded by two side buttresses, framed in their turn by stretches of plain tezontle walling that dip down under a series of moulded copings to corner entrances. The retable panels comprise two superimposed rows of estípites in two planes, the rear set articulated by niches that house statues. The centralized plan of the church is in the form of a Greek cross, the interior elevations repeating those of the adjacent cathedral....