The Making of Hispanoflemish Style Art Commerce and Politics in Fifteenthcentury Castile
R. Kasl
The Making of Hispano-Flemish Style
Fine art, Commerce, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Castile
X+228 p., 132 b/west ill. + 34 colour ill., 210 ten 297 mm, 2014
ISBN: 978-2-503-54624-vii
Languages: English
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This book examines the phenomenon of "Hispano-Flemish" style in fifteenth-century Castile, providing an business relationship of its most important monuments and describing the means in which information technology is embedded in specific social and cultural settings. Trade, diplomacy, and immigration account for the widespread presence of art and artists from northern Europe in Castile during the menstruum and these mechanisms of international contact and substitution are the starting point for this inquiry. Chapter one details commercial relations between Castile and the fine art-producing centers of northern Europe, stressing the dominant part of merchants from Burgos and documenting the prevalence of imported luxuries like tapestries, paintings, and sculpture. The presence of imported artworks in Castile was paralleled by a similarly robust number of immigrant artists, some afoot and others fastened to permanent workshops. Their influence is discussed in chapter ii, with emphasis on the establishment of multi-generational family unit workshops nether the management of immigrant masters. Such workshops rooted strange styles on Castilian soil and decisively influenced the ways in which visual conventions were learned, transformed, and transferred. The receptivity of patrons to the visual qualities of the imported manner is analyzed in relation to its chapters to affirm emerging social, political, and spiritual values.
The adoption of northern forms in Castile, start detected in the sculptural ornament of funerary chapels of the mid-1430s, was sustained for the rest of the century, culminating in the completion of the monastery of Miraflores nether the patronage of Isabel of Castile. Chapter iii outlines the religious, commemorative, and political motives that informed the foundation of the monastery by Juan II and those that animated his daughter's efforts to complete it. It establishes the chronology of works in relation to historical events and details the intervention of Juan and Simón de Colonia, Gil de Siloe, Juan de Flandes, and others. The reelaboration of Siloe's northern European sculptural idiom at Miraflores was a distinctive process, stimulated past the demands of his regal patron, conditioned by the practices of a heterogeneous workshop, and obliged to visualize a new concept of royal sovereignty.
Review
"Overall, Kasl offers a well-informed and lucidly presented synthesis of the knowledge already available, while offering a modern disquisitional perspective. (...) Finally, this is a well-illustrated study, especially in what concerns the details of the complex monument of John II and Isabella of Portugal that allow the reader to follow the author's interpretation, although few of the photographs are in colour. It is a useful add-on to the literature on the majestic foundation of Miraflores, peculiarly as it is written in English language, which opens up to international researchers Castilian textile that is usually published solely in Castilian." (Joana Ramôa Melo, in: Church building Monuments 30, 2015, p. 218-220)
"Kasl'southward book is a model written report of the period, and will doubtless become one of the standard reference works for fifteenth-century fine art in Castile, especially sculpture." (Marjorie Trusted, in The Burlington Magazine, CLVIII, July 2016, p. 566)
"Ronda Kasl'due south text is an indispensable addition to the literature on Isabelline art (…) Kasl's methodically researched and advisedly articulated text is a refreshing counter to the prevailing historiographic narrative of the Hispano-Flemish style (…) The advent of a methodologically of import English linguistic communication text will, hopefully, support a growing involvement in Hispano-Flemish art amid those interested in the circuitous reception of Netherlandish art in the wider European context." (Jessica Weiss, in Historians of Netherlandish Art, October 2017)
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