Tours of Masterpieces of Andalucia
painting and Sculpture: PROVINCE OF JAEN |
Starting in the city's Archaeological Museum, we have two pieces that
are worth looking at. The Anthropomorphous Idol of Ma"oquies
Alto (ca. 1800 BC), is a stylized ivory figure with geometrical features;
this important trove represents the passage from a schematic abstract
idol to anthropomorphous understanding, initiating the concept of
volume with rounded bulk in the sculpture. The discovery of the Iberian
Sculptures of Porcuna (5th c. BC) has changed the evaluation of Iberian
art and culture. The ensemble was intentionally destroyed towards
400 BC and the fragments were hidden in a large ditch. Two other works
in the Cathedral are worth
mentioning: the altarpiece of San Pedro de Osma by Pedro Machuca (ca.
1546), a polyptych of extraordinary quality, clear exponent of the
purest Italian influence, and the Immaculate Conception Triumphant
over Original Sin by Sebastian Martinez (17th c.), a painting of interesting
and unusual iconography, that follows the baroque, with Venetian and
Flemish overtones.
At Baeza, in the church of San Andres, we may view the altarpiece
of the Life of Christ (end of the 15th c.), a good example of painting
upon wood in the Gothic Hispano-Flemish style. Lastly, at Quesada,
the Zabaleta museum is well worth a visit. It the most notable are
a series of landscapes and rural scenes of a post-cubist air, as well
as the Dreams of Quesada, a series of surrealist drawings done for
the Venice Festival.
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