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THE GOLDEN AGERenaissance art in Spain
What were the
characteristics of
Renaissance
art??
GOLDEN AGE (El Siglo de Oro)
• Most thriving period of Spanish
culture.
• 16th & 17th centuries:
Renaissance
Baroque
QUEVEDO LOPE DE VEGA
RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
• Inspired by Italian models.
• 3 periods:
Plateresque (1st 1/3 of the 16th Cent.)
Purist (2nd 1/3 of the 16th Cent.)
Herrerian (3rd 1/3 of the 16th Cent.)
PLATERESQUE
• INSIDE: Gothic forms.
• OUTSIDE: Renaissance
decorations
(medallions, shields,
grotesques)
• Abundant & detaileddecoration like the
work of a silversmith
(“platero”)
Church of San Esteban (Salamanca)
Façade of the University of Salamanca
Hospital de Santa Cruz(Toledo)
PURIST
• It becomes more
pure, simple &
proportional (as
Italian Renaissance):
Classical building elements
(semicircular arches, barrel
vaults, pediments, classical
orders…)
Less decoration, but bigger
decorative elements.
More interest in proportion, balance & symmetry.
Puerta de Bisagra (Toledo)
Palacio de Carlos V (Alhambra, Granada)
Façade of the University of Alcalá de Henares
Alcázar (Toledo)
Catedral de Granada
HERRERIAN (or Escurialense)
• Reign of Felipe II
• Very austere decoration (due to the historical
context: Counterreformation), simple forms.
• Slate roofs topped wih pyramids crowned with
spheres.
• Name derives from the architect who built El
Escorial: Juan de Herrera.
Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid)
• 1563-84. Madrid (new capital city).
• Symbol of the hegemony of the Spanish Empire.
•
• Conmmemorates the Spanish victory over the french at the
battle of San Quintín (10 agosto 1557: festivity of San
Lorenzo).
• Several parts: palace / monastery / church / “panteón” (mausoleum)
Patio de los Reyes.
Church
&
“Panteón” (mausoleum)
RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE
• Unique style, different to
the rest of Renaissance art
in Europe.
• Polychromed wooden
sculptures for altarpieces
& “pasos procesionales”: Religious topics depicted in a
dramatic way
Realism & expression of feelings
Italian
Renaissance
VSSpanish
Renaissance
Alonso
Berruguete
El sacrificio de Isaac San Sebastián San Jerónimo
La Piedad
Juan de
Juni
La PiedadRetablo del Santo
Entierro
(catedral of Segovia)
“La virgen de los cuchillos” & “Nuestra Señora de las Angustias”
(Valladolid)
RENAISSANCE PAINTING
• Main outstading figure:
EL GRECO: Came from Crete.
Worked most of his life in
Toledo.
Mixes influences of
byzantine art
(symbolism of
byzantine icons),
italian art (technique),
spirituality of Spanish
Catholicism.
Religious topics, setting out the
ideas of the
Counterreformation (rejected
by the Protestants):
• Cult of Saints & virgin
• Value of good deeds (merits) to
achieve salvation.
Elongated figures & complex
postures.
Elaborate compositions.
Powerful, bright & unreal lights.
Cool colours (blue, grey,
green, violet…).
EL MARTIRIO DE SAN MAURICIO
THE TRINITY
(La Trinidad)
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN
(Asunción de la Virgen)
THE DISROBING OF CHRIST
(El Expolio)
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS
(La adoración de los pastores)
EL ENTIERRO DEL CONDE ORGAZ
• Leyenda sobre un caballero toledano, el Señor de Orgaz, durante cuyo funeral descendieron milagrosamente San Esteban y San Agustín para enterrarlo, en agradecimiento por su ayuda para la construcción de templos y monasterios.
• Cuadro dividido en dos partes claramente separadas por una línea horizontal de cabezas: abajo la tierra y arriba el cielo.
ABAJO: una larga serie de personajes vestidos de negro, retratos de personalidades toledanas contemporáneas (autorretrato de El Greco, su hijo, alcalde de Toledo…) asisten al milagro. Sobre este fondo negro destacan las ricas vestiduras de los santos y la armadura del difunto.
ARRIBA: en un fondo celestial, Cristo Juez, la Virgen y San Juan Bautista reciben el alma del señor de Orgaz, que en forma de niño translúcido es llevada por un ángel. A los laterales, San Pedro (con las llaves), santos, apóstoles, bienaventurados, entre los que se reconoce a Felipe II