Granada Information: SAN
JERONIMO AND THE CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY |
The San Jeronimo monastery and church display the Christian trend
in town planning followed by Ferdinand and Isabella and developed
further by Charles V. It began as a royal project but, in 1523, the
Duchess of Sessa, wife of the Great Captain, the Gran Capitan Gonzalo
Fernfmdez de Cordoba, requested the Emperor Charles V for the high
chapel to be devoted to the burial of her husband. The initial plans
were Gothic, though in 1525 work began on a Renaissance remodelling
by Jacobo Florentino el Indaco and Diego de Siloe. The semicylindrical
Gothic pillars were replaced by Corinthian pilasters on pedestals,
all of a giant order. Siloe changed the Gothic ribs for caissons.
For the sculptural decoration, he used figures from the Old Testament
and heroes and heroines of the classical world in order to refer to
the Gran Capitan as a Christian hero. The finest sculptural work in
the church is the priory seat in the choir stalls. Juan Bautista Vazquez
el Mozo and Melchor Turin worked on the impressive altarpiece.
The Carthusian monastery is an extreme example of Baroque development,
extreme in time and in its decorative sumptuousness. The church, divided
into three parts, each one reserved for priests, laymen and commoners,
was built in the sixteenth century, together with a part of the cloister,
with many Gothic elements. The Shrine is a dazzling spectacle due
to the sense of movement of the various elements, the colour and richness
of the materials. It was worked on by four Andalusian artists of the
eighteenth century: the architect Hurtado Izquierdo, the sculptor
Duque Cornejo, and the painters Palomino and Risueno.
The sacristy is another example of extreme Baroque expression, later
in time to different neo-classical works, completed in 1764. The ornamental
frenzy makes use of various resources of the colour white and effects
of light on volumes and shapes. The small image of St Bruno is by
Jose de Mora (1642-1724), and is "authentically mystic; the hands
tremble with emotion and reveal the suspension of the soul".
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