The Industrial Arts in SpainRiaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo)
History
The Industrial Arts in Spain
Riaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo)
Decorative arts -- Spain -- History; Pottery -- Spain -- History
The principal novelty which we find in Spain in this industry consists
in the combination of the Christian and Moorish styles applied to
furniture. A very remarkable specimen exists at the Academia de la
Historia, consisting of a reliquary, triptych or armoire of very large
dimensions, formerly in the church of the Monasterio of Piedra in
Aragon. It is 13 feet wide and 8 feet high. When the two doors are
closed six compartments appear on each, surrounded by a border headed by
a wide cornice. This cornice is divided in sixteen spaces formed by
arches adorned with stalactite ornamentation in the Moorish style;
inside each span is painted the figure of a saint. In the twelve
compartments which form the doors there are subjects from the life of
Our Lord, beginning with the Annunciation, and ending with the Descent
from the Cross painted in excellent taste. The border which surrounds
these doors is formed of a beautiful geometrical ornamentation, in the
purest Oriental style; in the upper and lower part appears the following
inscription in Gothic characters, which gives us the date in which this
object was made.
Tabernaculum hoc vocabitur aula Dei quia vere Dominis est in loco isto.
Fuit autem constructum ad honorem et reverentiam sacratissimi corporis
Domini nostri Ihu Xpi et pasionis ejusdem nec non ad honorem == et
reverentiam sanctissime genitricis ejusdem et totius celestis curie et
sanctorum ... at fuit ... depictum anno MCCCXC. anima ordinatoris
requiescat ... sinu salvatoris. Amen.
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