Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis

230 Pages·2017·256.728 MB·English

by  Amanda Wunder

BA ROQUE SE V I L L E
Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis
amanda wunder
Baroque Seville
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BAROQUE
SEVI L L E
Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis
AmAndA Wunder
The Pennsylvania State University Press
University Park, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017] | Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library
Includes bibliographical references and index. Material, ansi z39.48–1992.
Summary: “Explores the making of seventeenth-
century Seville’s greatest Baroque monuments.
Conceived as a spiritual solution to Seville’s
problems, these works had a profound real-world
effect on the city in crisis. Examines Baroque
art as a collaborative process involving not only
painters but altarpiece designers, plaster carvers,
embroiderers, printmakers, and authors”—
Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016023514 | ISBN
9780271076645 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Christian art and symbolism—
Spain—Seville—Modern period, 1500– | Art,
Baroque—Spain—Seville. | Art, Spanish—
Spain—Seville—17th century. | Group work in
art—Spain—Seville—History—17th century. |
Seville (Spain)—History—17th century.
Classification: LCC N7962.S48 W86 2017 | DDC
709.03/2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.
gov/2016023514
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For shamus and anders
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Madrid
Monastery of Guadalquivir River
San Agustín
Seville
Cádiz
San Esteban Puerta de la Carne
Mañara palace San
Bartolomé
Casa de Santa Maria
Pilatos la Blanca
Villamanrique v
Calle Real palace
Santa Catalina
San Luis de los Santa Cruz
Franceses
Alhóndiga
Puerta de la
Macarena Hospital of the
Venerables Sacerdotes
Hospital of the
Buen Suceso
Pinelo palaCcealle de Abades RAelcaálzeasres
Plaza de la Plaza de
Feria Archbishop’s Santa Marta
palace
Hospital of
San Bernardo PPolazzoa Sdaenlto San Salvador Cathedral Lonja PCloanztar adtea claió n
Hospital of
San Juan de Dios Sagrario
Alameda de Hércules San Andrés Calle Sierpes PSalanz aF rdaen ciscoCalle Génova
Hospital of the
Santa Caridad
Postigo
del Carbón
Puerta del Torre del Oro
Magdalena Arenal
San Pablo
nal
Are
Guadalquivir River Triana Bridge
100 200 300 400 500 600m
Monastery of
La Cartuja
N
Seville in the Seventeenth
century
Shaded area indicates the former
Jewish quarter. Drawing by Maura
Whang.
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Contents
Monastery of
San Agustín
List of Illustrations ix
San Esteban Puerta de la Carne
Mañara palace San Acknowledgments xv
Bartolomé
Casa de Santa Maria
P ilatos la BlancVaillamanrique v Currency, Weights, and Measures xviii
Calle Real palace
Santa Catalina
San Luis de los Santa Cruz
Franceses
Alhóndiga
Puerta de la Introduction 1
Macarena Hospital of the
Venerables Sacerdotes
Hospital of the
Buen Suceso Pinelo palaCcealle de Abades RAelcaálzeasres 1 The Art of Disillusionment:
Plaza de la Plaza de
Feria Archbishop’s Santa Marta The Patronage of Mateo Vázquez de Leca 21
palace
Hospital of
San Bernardo PPolazzoa Sdaenlto San Salvador Cathedral Lonja PCloanztar adtea claió n 2 The Piety of Powerful Neighbors:
Hospital of
San Juan de Dios Sagrario
Alameda de Hércules San Andrés Calle Sierpes PSalanz aF rdaen ciscoCalle Génova The Renovation of Santa María la Blanca 45
Hospital of the
Santa Caridad
Postigo 3 A Temporary Triumph:
del Carbón
Puerta del Torre del Oro
Magdalena Arenal The Seville Cathedral’s Festival for San Fernando 73
4 The Nobility of Charity:
San Pablo
nal
Are The Church and Hospital of the Santa Caridad 97
5 The Phoenix of Seville:
Guadalquivir River Triana Bridge RCeobnucilludsiniogn t h1e4 C7hurch of San Salvador 125
Chronology 155
Notes 157
Bibliography 181
100 200 300 400 500 600m
Monastery of Index 201
La Cartuja
N
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Illustrations
1 Virgin of the Kings in procession outside 8 Juan Martínez Montañés and Francisco
the Royal Chapel of the Seville cathedral Pacheco, Christ of Clemency, 1603–6.
on the feast of the Assumption, August Polychromed wood, 6´ 2⅘˝ tall (1.90 m).
15, 2015. Photo: Luis Manuel Jiménez Capilla de San Andrés, Seville cathedral.
Domínguez. 2 Photo courtesy of the Cabildo Catedral de
Sevilla (Pedro Feria Fernández). 24
2 Procession of the Virgin of the Kings in
Front of the Northern Steps of the Seville 9 Plan of the Seville cathedral, begun ca.
Cathedral, mid-seventeenth century. Oil on 1433. Drawing by Maura Whang. 26
canvas, 4´ 11½˝ × 8´ 10¼˝ (151 × 270 cm).
Seville cathedral. Photo courtesy of the 10 Oratory, Pinelo palace, Seville, first quarter
Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla (Pedro Feria of the sixteenth century, reconstructed in
Fernández). 4 the 1970s. Photo: Album / Art Resource,
New York. 28
3 Attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello,
View of Seville, last quarter of the sixteenth 11 Francisco de Zurbarán, Visit by Saint
century. Oil on canvas, 4´ 11˝ × 9´ 10˝ (150 Thomas Aquinas to Saint Bonaventure, ca.
× 300 cm). Museo de América, Madrid. 1629. Oil on canvas, 7´ 5˝ × 8´ 4¾˝ (226 ×
Photo: Album / Art Resource, New 256 cm). Destroyed 1945; formerly Kaiser-
York. 8–9 Friedrich-Museum, Berlin. Photo: bpk,
Berlin / Gemäldegalerie / Art Resource,
4 Sebastián Conde, iron cross (La Cruz New York. 28
de la Cerrajería), 1692. Formerly on
Calle Sierpes. Plaza de Santa Cruz, 12 Francisco de Zurbarán, The Crucified
Seville. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Christ with a Donor, 1640. Oil on can-
(Gpedro). 16 vas, 8´× 5´ 6˝ (244 × 167.5 cm). Museo
Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo ©
5 Plano topographico de la M. N. y M. L. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. 29
ciudad de Sevilla, commissioned by Pablo
de Olavide, 1771. Designed by Francisco 13 The Christ of Clemency seen from below.
Manuel Coelho and engraved by José Photo courtesy of the Cabildo Catedral de
Amat. Engraving and etching, 3´ ⅘˝ × Sevilla (Pedro Feria Fernández). 29
4´ 6˝ (93.5 × 137 cm). Facsimile edi-
14 Juan de Arfe, custodia, 1580–87. Silver
tion, Madrid: Grupo Eulen, 1992. Photo
processional monstrance, 12´ 9½˝ tall
© ICAS-SAHP, Archivo Municipal de
(3.9 m). Displayed for Corpus Christi on a
Sevilla. 18–19
processional float covered with eighteenth-
6 Attributed to Pedro Camprobín, Death and century embroidered silver-lamé panels,
the Gentleman, mid-seventeenth century. main chapel, Seville cathedral. Photo ©
Oil on canvas, 3´ 3⅓˝ × 5´ 3¾˝ (100 × José Ramón Pizarro—www.photaki.es. 32
162 cm). Hospital of the Santa Caridad,
15 Juan de Roelas, Procession Celebrating the
Seville. Photo: Album / Art Resource, New
Immaculate Conception in Seville on June
York. 23
29, 1615, 1616, detail. Oil on canvas, whole
7 The Seville cathedral, detail of the Olavide work 10´ 8⅓˝ × 6´ 5½˝ (326 × 197 cm).
map of Seville (fig. 5), 1771. Photo © Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid.
ICAS-SAHP, Archivo Municipal de Photo: Album / Art Resource, New
Sevilla. 23 York. 34

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