presentación baroque art
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Amalia Feldiorean4º ESOIES: ISABEL PERILLÁN Y QUIRÓS
ARCHITECTURE:
SAN TELMO PALACE
PAINTING:
THE SPINNERS
SAN TELMO PALACE IN SEVILLE
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star/554?departureDate=01/03/2014
On 10 March 1682 construction began on the building in the exterior walls of Seville, near the Guadalquivir river. On property belonging to the Tribunal of the Holy Office. At first Antonio Rodríquez was encharged of the construction but Leonardo Fiqueroaand his family finished it. It last more than 70 years, finished in 1730.
San telmo palace in Seville is a work of the architect Leonardo de Figueroa.
Source: http://edificiosdesevilla.blogspot.com.es/2012/01/palacio-de-san-telmo.html
The palace is one of the emblematic buildings of Sevillian Baroque arquitecture
At first this palace was dedicated to the University of Navigators (It was called San Telmo because he was the patron of the navigators), later it became the Colegio de Marina and then Colegiode Naútica, a role in which it continued until 1847.
Then, it was the headquarters of the Railway Society and site of the Literary University , but it was underutilized.
After that it was used as the residence of kings, duckes, archbishops…
It was also a seminary until 1989, when the arch-episcopate of Seville ceded the building to the Andalusian Autonomous Government to be the new seat of the presidency. Nowadays it remained like that.
The palace’s main feature is the
exuberant churrigueresque portal on
the main façade , it was built by three
generations of Figueroa family.
This massive building, painted in
distinctive red and dark yellow, covers
an entire city block.
There is movement on the portal but
there are also straight lines in the rest
of the building.
His evolution has been
marked in epochs of reforms
and constant rehabilitations as
consequence of his changes of
property
Source: http://www.juddlamphere.com/#/spaces/Spaces-06-Photographer
In the portal we can distinguish three
parts:
- The lower part is made up of Toscan
columns with ornamental shaft (decorated
with geometrical and figurative elements)
- The middle part it’s made up of a
balcony decorated with nautic sculptures
and columns. Surrounding the columns
you can see 12 female a figures
representing the arts and sciences.
- On the third part there are the
sculptures of the patrons of the city
(Saint Ferdinand and saint
Hermenegildo) and San Telmo.. This
part was destroyed by a lightning and
rebuilt with a neoclassical style.
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•Fray Bartolomé de las.casas
•Fernando Afán de Rivera
•Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
•Benito Arias Montano
•Luis Daoíz,
•Fernando de Herrera
•Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga
•Lope de Rueda
•Miguel Mañara.
•Diego de Silva Velázquez
•Rodrigo Ponce de León,
•Marqués de Cádiz
•Juan Martínez Montañés
In the upper part, on the roof
there are 12 sculptures of
distinguished Sevilians
Source: http://travelingsky.com/palace-
of-san-telmo/
Source: http://dinastias.forogratis.es/palacio-de-san-telmo-sevilla-t2904-84.html
San Telmo floor plan
The plant is rectangular, with two more plants and the attic.
There are towers on the corners, gardens and several interior courts, the
principal one has a squared cloister in the center.
Source: http://seordelbiombo.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/el-gran-
palacio-barroco-de-san-telmo.html
The palace has many rooms as the mirrors gallery ,a chapel
and it has also gardens
It is decorated with emblems, religious and naval themes
http://onsevilla.com/2010/05/visitas-al-palacio-de-
san-telmo.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Telmo_001.jpg
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The Baroque art style is found in this building. The main characteristics
are :
-Twisted columns, sometimes simply decorative instead of supportive
-More curves instead of straight lines
-Highly decorative details and ornaments
-Appearance of movement
-Towers or domes
-An abundance of windows
-Broad naves
-Ceiling frescos
-Optical illusions
The main style of this building is the Baroque but as there were many
reforms there are elements with a Neoclassical style and also Rococó
The facade has a lot of Baroque elements as Toscan
columns, curved lines, concave lines.
There is movement.
It is overelaborated there are many sculptures and
decorative items.
We can find decorative exhuberance in the exterior
and the interior of the building.
The structure is rectangular with 4 towers, so common
in this period in the peninsula, it has a stone facade
and overelaborated and the building is made of bricks.
The color is also a classical link with the architecture
in this city. In the Chapel there are frescoes also in
ceilings.
Additional information:
The building has much influence from other buildings :
-In the structure and also the interior by the Escorial and
the retiro’s palace
The escorial:Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_E
scorial
Buen retiro palaceSource:
http://www.boadilla.com/pages/buen_reti
ro.htm
-On the facade it was influenced by The Hospice and the
count ducke’s cuartel
Count ducke’s quartelSource:
www.elmundo.es
The HospiceSource:
enriquemonte.blogspot.com
-It has a mirror hall as the Versailles’ palace in France
Versailles palace, hall of mirrors
Source :
http://www.placesinparis.com/palace-of-
versailles/
San Telmo palace, hall of mirrors
Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonrlucas/
349690945/?rb=1
THE SPINNERS
The Spinners is a painting made by Diego Rodrigo de Silva and Velázquez
from 1655 to 1660 also known as the tale of Aracne.
Now it’s on the Prado museum .
The sizes are:2,20 x 2,89m .
It is made with oleo paintingover a canvas.
The theme is Mithological, ittells the tale of Aracne
Velázquez
Source:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/au
th/velazquez/
It was one of the last paintings of the author, Don Pedro de Arce commissioned this painting, the painting tells us a mithological tale, the leyend of Aracne:
Aracne was a weaver who defy Atenea in being better than her in weaving, Aracne made a tapestry representing the infidelity of his father ,Zeus ,becoming a bull and kindnapping the god Europa.
As Atenea noticed the taunt and Aracne lost, she decided to take revenge and she turn Aracne into a spider and she sentenced her to weaw all her life
This tale explains the spider's ability to weave its web.
The mith of AracneSource:
hegoddesshouse.blogspot.com.es/2
013/02/spiders-and-arachne.html
In the spinners we can
see that the most
important action the
drama, the fable is in
the background and that
in the foreground it’s a
normal day in a
spinning workshop.
The spirit of Titian fills the Spinners with reds, russets and golden browns,
and gives to its plain peasant-women a classical grace of gesture
The bit of tapestry in the lighted alcove sets the theme for the whole
composition. Its diagonal curves are developed. There is richness of color,
there are silvery gray-blues, dull rose and olive, are gently diffused over the
standing ladies (almost indistinguishable from the tapestry) to the spacious
plainness of the work-room. The colors go from the gray-green wall with its
skeins of yarn and its ladder through the shadowy, flat, red-skirted woman
in the center, to the girl winding yarn at the right.
This girl, with strongly lighted and rounded waist, with skirt of green
intenser than the walls, her body swaying in the natural dance-rhythm of her
work, is the most important part of the composition.
Part Of The Painting
He received dutch influences :
a homelike, realistic group,
drawn in short, irregular
curves without classical grace,
against a plain interior full of
rectangular planes at different
angles; cool, clear daylight
from a side-window to bring
out richly colored textiles
against plain, dull, gray-green
walls.
As to composition: the Dutch genre
painters rarely attempted designs so
spacious and complex
Source
http://fxreflects.blogspot.com.es/2009/08/velasquez-
encore-las-hilandera-spinners.html
In its composition, the artist looks
back to his still life, where two
different areas and two planes of
reality balance each other. The
everyday scene in the foreground
shows a plainly furnished room
where women are at work spinning.
Sunlight falling in from above
conjures up a complex range of
colours. On the left, an elderly
woman is at the spinning wheel,
while the young woman seated to the
right is winding yarn.
There is a second room in the background, It is
flooded with light and contains several elegantly
dressed women. The woman on the left wearing
an antique helmet and with her arm raised is a
figure of Athena. Opposite her stands the
young Arachne, who has committed the
sacrilegious act of comparing her skill in
weaving with the goddess's. She has begun their
competition with a tapestry showing one of the
love affairs of Jupiter, the rape of Europa.
Velázquez borrowed the theme of this tapestry
from a famous picture by Titian, also extant in
a copy by Rubens, to show his artistic
veneration for the Venetian master.
This interpretation is still
relevant if Velázquez has in fact
represented the figures of
Athenea and Arachne a second
time in the figures of the old
woman and the young woman in
the foreground. Here, at least,
Velázquez has transferred
mythology to everyday reality.
However, there is a whole series
of possible meanings beneath the
surface of this painting, and
scholars are still puzzling over
some of them to this day.
BAROQUE PAINTINGCHARACTERISTICS
•They prefered a balance naturalism,.
• Predominance of the religious themes, with
an ascetic or mystical expression, and treated
with simplicity and credibility.
• Absence of sensuality.
• Influence of the realism and tenebrism
•Foreshortened figures appeared
•Oil paintings were used
•Chiaroscuro, the use games between light and
shadow
• Predominance of color over painting
• The painters made complex compositions in
order to shock the audience
• The important aspects aren’t on the center
This painting belongs to the baroque art style and in
the painting appears some Baroque elements:
The picture is realistic
There are foreshortened figures and chiaroscuros.
The colors are dark and also warm.
It’s an oil painting
This is a complex composition
A characteristic of this autor is that the
important thing is in the background as in a
frame or mirror
The spinners’ Baroque characteristics
CURIOSITIES
The painting was restored after a fire in the Alcazar
of Madrid where it was stored and his dimensions
changed a bit.
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