Extremadura Guide Eng 2016

A Zurbarán painting

Cathedral of Plasencia

of XVI century and even Gothic and Renaissance ele- ments coexisted dur- ing this period of time. That fact can be demonstrated when observing the picto- rial art where a per-

foundation of the Republic of Salé , in the north of Africa and near Rabat, by some of the Moorish people from these localities. The Baroque movement will ap-

sonal, admirable combination of the Italian and Flemish features will be reflected on the person of Luis de Morales. Once this delay was overcome, Extremadura will know decades of a great Renaissance splendour, a style which has left magnificent marks in our cultural heritage. Therefore, those years could be regarded as the best ones in the modern history in regards to the art. Cathedrals and churches will renovate the medieval buildings, getting as a result numerous works of a marvel- lous beauty, where the Renaissance influences of room and monumentality will be repeated during this century. The Military orders will have an important role in the expan- sion of this artistic style predominant in Europe with the politic authority of the Spanish Austrias. The influence of artists coming from Salamanca, Andalusia and other places in the peninsula will be a con- stant aspect in XVI century and with them, the admired Renaissance ideas approved either by civil or religious authorities. Austrias and Borbones governed most part of the countrymen and countrywomen in Spain and Extremadu- ra. They were Moorish people who were dependent on the Military Orders and had to leave their lands and houses, being expelled according to Felipe III´s wishes in 1609. It was the beautiful locality of Hornachos one of the most affected ones because of this expulsion which caused the

pear in XVII century with a certain reticence. Nevertheless, it developed brightly in XVIII century, in whose second part would go hand with hand with the Neo-classical stream. Furthermore, XVII and most part of XVIII centuries will bring new artistic direction in the civil and religious architecture, in the interesting statues and the important pictorial examples, where an Extremaduran painter will shine like a real star. We refer to Francisco de Zurbarán , born in Fuentes de Cantos and whose admirable work can be observed in the sacristy of the Monastery of Guadalupe. The Baroque artistic newness and some civil, military constructions, all of them with clear mannerism influences, Austria style and the so-called Extremaduran “bajo Barro- co” will be captured in churches, convents and hermitages. Andalusia would be located in the southernmost part whereas Castilla would do it in the northernmost part of the Extremaduran lands. Moreover, XIX and XX centuries are two centuries with remarked changing features either in a social or political and cultural way, which has influenced in the architecton- ical, sculptural and pictorial styles of that time. Centuries of important, transcendental, agricultural, industrial and social revolutions, some of them as a result of the French Revolution in 1789, will affect Spain and Extremadura. Unquestionably, these influences would be

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