INTRODUCTION:
Carlos
V’s palace is a building located in “La Alhambra” in Granada. Carlos I ordered
Pedro Machuca to build it. Carlos I, after his wedding with Elizabeth of
Portugal, started living in “La Alhambra”. He was astonished because of its
beauty, so he build the palace, which was his real palace in Granada. Nowadays
the palace belongs to the Alhambras’ Museum, and it works as a museum, like the
other buildings.
PEDRO
MACHUCA:
Pedro
Machuca (Toledo, ca. 1490 - 1550) was an spanish painter and architect. Although
he was born in Spain, he went to Italy for develop her career as artist. There
is an hypothesis that said he was a learner from Miguel Ángel, in some texts is
mentioned a Pedro Spagnuolo, which
might be him. In Italy he also knew Rafael Sanzio, he reflected Sanzio’s style
in some of his paintings.
He
was one of the 1st artist to bring the most modern style from Italy
to Spain, actually the palace was the most “italian” building from Spain.
MATERIALS, STYLE
AND SHAPE:
The
palace is made of stone, as I did not find where the stone is from, I suppose
that is from a near open pit of the
Alhambra. It also has some decoration made of metal in the façade or of wood.
It
style is mannerism. It is a style inside the Renaissance, at its final days
during the Cinquecento. This styles loses all canones of beauty; proportions,
harmony, serenity and balance. In mannerist architecture, buildings lose
clarity of composition and lose solemnity with respect to full classicism.
The
shape is a prism with a base of 63mx63m. In the middle of it, the courtyard is
shaped as a cylinder. The shape of building it reflects its mannerism style,
that was brought from Italy by Machuca.
OPINION:
In
my opinion the palace is very original and it has a funny shape, especially
taking in account the year in which it was built. But even though its
freshness, I don't like it so much. The decoration of the façade is not very
elaborated, and it doesn’t contrast very much with its location. I think
façades from the Quattrocento are much more beautiful because, the are simple
geometric patterns, but they play with colours and fits good with the
buildings. Also the palace of Carlos V doesn’t match and it is not well
balanced with the others buildings from the Alhambra, which are extremely more
beautiful and elaborated.
Bruno Valderrey Alonso 3rd A
No comments:
Post a Comment