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ARCHITECTURE:

SAN TELMO PALACE

PAINTING:

THE SPINNERS

SAN TELMO PALACE IN SEVILLE

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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

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of-san-telmo/

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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:

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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

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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.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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http://www.wordrefference.com

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