GALICIA Information - BAROQUE
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It was always said that Galicia is the
country where Romanesque and Baroque cover everything. This Baroque
influence lies in the contrasts caused by light and shade, in the
dynamic shapes, in polychrome alternation, in hues and in perspectives.
Baroque is in everything, in traditional costume and tools, in the
sharp tones of the bagpipes and the "hurdy gurdy" fading
away among the oak forests and the mist, in the sea of the rias, in
the literary depth of writers like Otero Pedrayo.
Compostela perfectly sums up this feeling which can also be seen on
the facade of the Obradoiro. A play on symmetries, volutes, horizontal
and vertical lines and reliefs. All this is complemented by the rain,
and the gargoyles of San Martiño Pinario vomit the water that
falls. The cloisters and retables of Celanova, Samos and its fountain
of sea nymphs among the myrtle. Churches in the province of Ourense
like As Ermidas in O Bolo or Santa María de Entrimo; the Monastery
of Poio in the area of Pontevedra with the tomb of St. Trahamunda,
patron saint of home-sickness and of emigrants; San Salvador de Lourenza
in the province of Lugo - all monasteries with a flavour of Baroque.
Baroque is in everything in Galicia, and allies well with traditions,
inseparable from the Galician landscape, where they still know how
to understand the nostalgic parochial language. Around the Compostela
chapter and its cathedral, the Baroque of plaques appeared, inspired
by the art of marquetry and transferred to architecture, as done by
Fernandez Sarela in the Chapterhouse in the Plaza de Platerias in
Compostela, and especially by Simon Rodriguez in the facade of the
Convent of Santa Clara de Santiago. Similarly, Ferro Caaveiro, responsible
for the Lugo Town Council building, who also worked on the chapel
and walls of the Pazo de Oca. Aesthetic works which take us back to
the illustrated ethics of a nobility anxious to discover and experiment.
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