Seville: an historical and descriptive account of "the pearl of Andalusia"Calvert, Albert Frederick
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Seville: an historical and descriptive account of "the pearl of Andalusia"
Calvert, Albert Frederick
Art -- Spain -- Seville; Painters -- Spain; Seville (Spain) -- Description and travel
Proceeding along the south aisle, towards the main entrance, we first
reach the Capilla de San Andrés, the burying-place of the ancient
family of Guzman. Behind the chapel of Nuestra Señora de las Dolores is
the fine Sacristia de los Calices. It is the work of those who built
the Sacristia Mayor. It contains several fine paintings--the Saints
Justa and Rufina (patrons of Seville) by Goya (among his finest works),
the “Angel de la Guarda” and the “St Dorothy” of Murillo, the “Death
of a Saint” by Zurbarán, the “Trinity of Theotocopuli” (El Greco),
a triptych by Morales, and “The Death of the Virgin”--an old German
picture. This crucifix over the altar is one of the most admirable
productions of Montañez.
The next chapel (de la Santa Cruz) is adorned by a fine “Descent from
the Cross” by Fernandez de Guadelupe (1527). The Puerta de la Lonja
has a fresco, painted in 1584, of “St Christopher carrying the Infant
Jesus across a River.” A representation of this saint is to be found in
nearly all Spanish cathedrals, owing to a curious superstition that to
look upon it secures the beholder for the rest of that day from an evil
death. This fresco, which measures thirty-two feet high, is opposite
the “Capilla de la Gamba” (or, of the leg--of Adam). Here we find “La
Generacion”--Luis de Vargas’s masterpiece. “The picture,” says Herr
Schmidt, “is wholly in the Italian style, and one of the best examples
of this phase of the Spanish Renaissance.”
The large chapel of the Antigua contains the fine tomb of Archbishop
Mendoza, by Miguel Florentin, erected in 1509. Here is also a very
ancient mural painting, after the Byzantine style, of the “Madonna and
Child,” which was placed here in 1578, and is of unknown and rather
mysterious origin. The retablo is distinguished by marble statues in
the baroque style by Pedro Duque Cornejo. The small sacristy behind
this chapel contains pictures by Zurbarán, Morales, and others.
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