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

There are many works of art in Seville's Cathedral, such as the great High Altar (1482-1525) designed by Pyeter Dancart from Flanders. In the Scalas chapel, the 15th c. altarpiece of the Virgin of the Pomegranate by Andrea della Robia is an exquisite work in terracotta by one of the great artists of the Florentine 15th century.

In the San Hermenegildo chapel, there is the tomb of Cardinal Cervantes by Lorenzo Mercadante (1458), a remarkabie rttonument of alabaster. In the main Sacristy, the Descent from the Cross by Pedro de Campaña is an outstanding painting on wood (1547). In the Sacristy of Los Cilices, Martinez Montañes Christ of Mercy (1606) is a really beautiful carving of Christ on the cross, of Sevillian baroque.

There is a large painting of St. Anthony by Murillo (1656) in the Baptism Chapel. Behind the high altar, there is a sumptuously coloured Triumph cif the Eucharist by Herrera el Mozo (1656). The Sacristy of Los Calices also holds a large painting of Saints Justa and Rufina by Goya (1817).

There are three most interesting archaeological troves: Astarte, a Phoenician bronze exponent of the feminine religious principle in the eastern Mediterranean; a figure of Trajan from Italica (2nd c.) as emperor hero-god and Venus of Italica (4th c. BC) an exceptional figure of Aphrodite Anadyomene with marine attributes, done in specially transparent marble (Archaeological Museum).

There are various paintings well worth seeing in Seville; in the Fine Arts Museum, there is a speldid portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotocopuli by El Greco (ca. 1605); St. Ildefonsus Receiving the Chasuble by Velazquez (ca. 1623) is a remarkable painting of special intensity. The magnitude and quality of the Apotheosis cif St. Thomas Aquinas by Zurbaran makes it one of the emblems of baroque painting. By the same painter, there is the series from the monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas.

There is a Madonna by Murillo with the painter's best features; the Cigar Makers by Gonzalo Bilbao (1915) is the synthesis of impressionist and social realism tendencies of the end of the 19th century. Valdes Leal's Hierogliphs towards the End of Life (1671-72) are an impressive allegory on life and death in two remarkable paintings in the Hospital de la Caridad.

The Apotheosis of Hercules is on a ceiling painting by Pacheco (1640), master of Velazquez, and it may be seen among a large collection of paintings by Sebastiano del Piombo, Pantoja de la Cruz, Carreño de Miranda, Van Loo, Lucas Jordan and an exquisite Goya with a bullfighting scene in Casa de Pilatos.

Carvings of religious images are prodigal in the art of the best baroque pathos, thus Jesus de la Pasion by Martinez Montaiies (1610-15) and Cristo del Amor by Juan de Mesa (1618-20) are first class examples in the church of El Salvador, as are Jesus del Gran Poder, also by Juan de Mesa at the basilica in Plaza de San Lorenzo, and Cristo de la Expiracion called El Cachorro by F. Antonio Gijon (1682), object of deep popular devotion at the chapel of El Patrocinio.

There are real art treasures dotted about in the provincial towns, such as the processional monstrance by Francisco de Alfaro (1579-84), a real jewel of Sevillian silversmiths, to be seen in the church of Santa Maria at Carmona; the painting of the Calvary by Rivera (1625-26) done in Naples on order from the Duke of Os una may be seen at the Colegiata in Osuna; another painting by El Greco, the Penitent Magdalene in the church of San Eutropio at Paradas, or a painting on wood said to be by Bemardino Luini, a disciple of Leonardo's. in the church of Santa Maria de la Mesa at Utrera.

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