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Tours of Masterpieces of Andalucia painting and Sculpture: PROVINCE OF CADIZ

The traveller who goes to the ancient city of Cadiz can see first class paintings and sculpture. Among the former, there are three paintings by Francisco de Goya with a religious theme, which is not frequent in this painter: the Miracle of the Fish and the Loaves, the Invitation cif the Head of the Family and the Last Supper (Oratorio de la Santa Cueva, El Rosario parish). However, the main attraction are the Francisco de Zurbaran paintaings (1638-39), painted for the high altar of the Carthusian monastery in Jerez.

There is still a series of paintings on canvas and on wood from the original order, of
exceptional quality, considered among the best of his production (Cadiz Museum).

Lastly, also in the Cadiz Museum, there is the Holy Family by Rubens (17th c.) a small painting on copper of surprising value. Under sculpture, we have the outstanding carvings by Luisa Roldan: her Ecce Homo (1684) is a work of intense baroque dramatism in the Cathedral museum. The Anthropoid Sarcophagi (470400 BC) are unique in the Mediterranean (Archaeological Museum). The masculine sarcophagus appeared in 1887 and a century later, the feminine one of similar characteristics was discovered. Archaeologists relate them to a funerary tradition from Egypt and to the trade of Gades with cities of the eastern Mediterranean.

There are two remarkable altarpieces in the province of Cadiz: the high altar of the church of SarI Pedro at Arcos de la Frontera, by Hemando de Esturmio (1539) whose long list of works clearly shows the influence of Flemish mannersits on Andalusian art in the mid-16th century. The other is the high altar of the church of San Miguel in Jerez de la Frontera, by Martlnez Montafies (1617-1643), corresponding to his best period.

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