The Second Phase of the Hall of Mirrors: the Writing Desks and the Firedogs Ordered by Velazquez to Italy (1649-1660)
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Lions, Table tops, Firedogs, Diego Velasquez, Matteo Bonucelli, Alessandro Algardi, Count of Oñate, Juan de Córdoba, Duke of Terranova.
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We are reviewing the decoration commissioned by Velazquez to Italy bound for the Hall of Mirrors in the Alcazar in the decade of 1650, and we reveal how the famous lions were conceived with cornucopias on the heads to be used as torch stands before he had to adapt them as table supports. Being in Madrid, the arrival of some porphyry vases caused that they ordered table-tops of this material for the writing-desks. The changing role of the lions made way in the fireplaces for firedogs of the four Elements requested duplicate to Algardi, an order which circumstances we clarify as its style and iconography, and we demonstrate that another similar firedogs set was made being still the Sevillian alive.Downloads
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Cruz Yábar J. M. (2017). The Second Phase of the Hall of Mirrors: the Writing Desks and the Firedogs Ordered by Velazquez to Italy (1649-1660). Anales de Historia del Arte, 27, 113-138. https://doi.org/10.5209/ANHA.57484
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