The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 2 (of 3)Williams, Leonard
History
The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 2 (of 3)
Williams, Leonard
Decorative arts -- Spain -- History
[112] This artist painted a series of magnificent windows representing
scenes from the life of San Pedro Nolasco, for the convent of La
Piedad, at Valencia.
[113] Zarco del Valle, _Documentos Inéditos, etc._, pp. 339 _et seq._
In the same century the windows of Seville cathedral, begun some years
previously (Cean says in 1504) by Micer Cristóbal Alemán ("Master
Christopher the German"), were continued by Masters Jacobo, Juan Juan
Vivan, Juan Bernai, Bernardino de Gelandia, Juan Jaques, Arnold of
Flanders (1525), Arnao de Vergara (1525), Charles of Bruges, (1557), and
Vicente Menandro (1557).[114] In 1562 Diego de Valdivieso, and in 1570
Pedro de Valdivieso and Gerald of Holland, painted windows for Cuenca
cathedral. In 1542 the same work was done at Palencia by Diego de
Salcedo, and in 1533 George of Burgundy, "master in the art of glass,"
then resident at Burgos, proceeded to the same town and engaged to
renew the cathedral windows at a cost of a hundred _maravedis_ for every
palm of coloured glass, and fifty for every palm of plain.[115]
[114] According to Cean (_La Catedral de Sevilla_), Menandro painted in
1560 the conversion of Saint Paul on a window in the Chapel of
Santiago, in 1567 another window with the scene of the
Annunciation, over the gate of San Miguel, and in 1569 the
companion to it, representing the Visitation, over the Puerta del
Bautismo. "In all these windows," wrote Cean, prejudiced, as was
customary in his day, in favour of the strictly classic style,
"the drawing, pose, and composition are good, _although_ in the
draperies and figures we observe the influence of Germany."
In Cean's own time--that is, towards the close of the eighteenth
century--the coloured windows of Seville Cathedral amounted to
ninety-three, five of which were circular, and the rest with the
pointed Gothic arch. The dimensions of the latter are twenty-eight
feet high by twelve feet broad, and the subjects painted on them
include the likenesses of prophets, patriarchs, martyrs,
confessors, and virgins, or scenes from the New Testament, such as
the rising of Lazarus, Christ driving the merchants from the
temple, the Last Supper, and the
anointing by Mary Magdalene.
[115] Zarco del Valle, _Documentos Inéditos_, p. 159
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