Roque López

López was born in Era Alta, an independent small village close to Murcia.

[1] When he was only 17 years old,[2] he went to Murcia to become an apprentice to the Italian origin baroque sculptor Francisco Salzillo of who became his main disciple.

With Salzillo, López learned from 1764 to 1783 the keys to baroque sculptures and biblical knowledge; in 1772 he is considered 'master'.

He is considered one of the last rococo sculptors before neoclassicism According to his notebook, found in his study when he López died (Libro de la Verdad), throughout his career he created 466 sculptures, almost all of them religious, receiving commissions from many cities, towns and villages in southeastern Spain, mainly in Murcia, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Toledo and Madrid.

[4] In 2011, the bicentenary of his death, the Museo Salzillo in Murcia organized a major exhibition of his works entitled Roque López.