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authornfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>2025-01-23 05:54:31 -0800
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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Seville, by Albert F. Calvert
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
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-Title: Seville
-
-Author: Albert F. Calvert
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEVILLE ***
-
-
-
-
- THE SPANISH SERIES
-
-
- SEVILLE
-
-
-
-
- THE SPANISH SERIES
-
- Edited by ALBERT F. CALVERT
-
-
- MURILLO
- SPANISH ARMS AND ARMOUR
- THE ESCORIAL
- CORDOVA
- SEVILLE
- THE PRADO
-
-
- _In Preparation_
-
- GOYA
- GRANADA AND ALHAMBRA
- VELAZQUEZ
- TOLEDO
- ROYAL PALACES OF SPAIN
- MADRID
- LEON, BURGOS AND SALAMANCA
- VALLADOLID, OVIEDO, SEGOVIA,
- ZAMORA, AVILA & ZARAGOZA
-
-
-
-
- SEVILLE
-
- AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE
- ACCOUNT OF
- “THE PEARL OF ANDALUSIA”
- BY ALBERT F. CALVERT
- WITH 300 ILLUSTRATIONS
-
-
- LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
- NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMVII
-
- TURNBULL AND SPEARS. PRINTERS, EDINBURGH
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE
-
-
-There is a charm and compelling fascination about Seville which
-produces in the traveller visiting the city for the first time a
-sensation of physical ecstasy. The spell of the Pearl of Andalusia is
-instant and enduring; I have not met a man or woman proof against its
-witchery. George Borrow shed tears of rapture as he beheld Seville from
-the Cristina Promenade, and “listened to the thrush and the nightingale
-piping forth their melodious songs in the woods, and inhaled the breeze
-laden with the perfume of its thousand orange gardens.” The Moors left
-their beloved capital at the height of its prosperity, in the full
-flower of its beauty; change has not affected its material importance,
-and time has not staled its infinite variety. A Christian Cathedral now
-stands on the foundation of the great mosque of Abu Yakub Yusuf; but
-the Moorish Giralda, the most expressive monument of the Mohammedan
-occupation, still beckons the distant traveller onwards to the promised
-land; the Alcazar breathes the spirit of its Oriental masters; and the
-shimmering Torre del Oro still reflects the light of the setting sun
-upon the broad bosom of the rose-coloured river.
-
-The history of Seville from the time of its subjugation by Musa is
-a volume of romance; its pages are illumined by the cold light of
-flashing steel and stained with the blood of tyrants, traitors, and
-innocent men; but it forms a chronicle which the reader will follow
-with absorbing interest. The more exacting student will satisfy his
-thirst for knowledge in Dr Dozy’s “History of the Mohammedans of
-Spain,” in Gayangos’ translation of El Makkari’s “History of the
-Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain,” in Coppee’s “History of the Conquest
-of Spain,” and Pedro de Madrazo’s “Sevilla”--to refer to only a few of
-the many learned works that have been published on the subject. Many
-will continue to be content with the few pages of Notes which appear in
-the various Spanish Guides; but a certain section, it is hoped, of the
-English travelling public, will find in this book an album, a handbook,
-and a history which will supply a long-felt want.
-
-In my attempt to produce a volume which will appeal both to the artist
-and the tourist, to the archæologist as well as the least imaginative
-sightseer, I have reproduced a number of illustrations which may
-incline some persons to accuse me of a superabundant regard for detail.
-It is true that many pages are devoted to intricacies of decoration
-which the general reader may find of small interest, but my object in
-multiplying this detail is to satisfy the requirements of those who
-would fathom the mystery of Moslem art. When I was first in Granada I
-inquired for pictures of the minutiæ of many choice examples of design,
-and, failing to obtain anything of the kind, I had to employ a local
-artist to make sketches of the detail of the mosaics. That experience
-determined me, in treating of these Mohammedan cities of Spain, to
-include those reproductions for which I had searched in vain, and to
-make my illustrations, as far as possible, the last word on the subject
-of Arabian architecture and ornament.
-
-For the historical portion of the letterpress I have laid under tribute
-the authorities already mentioned, and I have also to acknowledge the
-assistance received in the compilation from Mr E. B. d’Auvergne.
-
-A large number of the photographs included here were supplied by Messrs
-Rafael Garzon and Senan & Gonzalez of Granada, Hauser & Menet of
-Madrid, Ernst Wasmuth of Berlin, publisher of Uhde’s “Baudenkmaeler in
-Spanien und Portugal,” and Eugen Twietmayer of Leipzig, publisher of
-Junghandel’s “Die Baukunst Spaniens,” and my thanks are due to them for
-the courteous permission to reproduce their work in this volume.
-
-Some of the illustrations are reproductions of pictures which were
-at one time in the San Telmo Collection. As that collection has been
-distributed I have been unable to trace the originals, but as they were
-so closely identified with Seville I make no apology for including them.
-
-A. F. C.
-
-“ROYSTON,”
-
- SWISS COTTAGE,
-
- N.W.
-
-
-
-
-CONTENTS
-
-
- PAGE
-
-SEVILLE 1
-
-MOORISH SEVILLE 5
-
-SEVILLE UNDER THE CASTILIAN KINGS 35
-
-THE ALCAZAR 45
-
-THE CATHEDRAL 69
-
-OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND
-SIXTEENTH CENTURIES 89
-
-BUILDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
-CENTURIES 101
-
-THE PAINTERS OF SEVILLE 107
-
-THE OLD ROMAN CITY 135
-
-
-
-
-ILLUSTRATIONS
-
-
- TITLE PLATE
-
-General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West
-side of the City. First view 1
-
-General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West
-side of the City. Second view 2
-
-General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, East
-side 3
-
-General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, Central
-part of the City 4
-
-General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, North
-side 5
-
-Procession of the Conception of the Virgin passing
-through the Plaza de San Francisco 6
-
-View of Seville 7
-
-View of Seville 8
-
-View of Seville 9
-
-View of Seville 10
-
-View of Seville 11
-
-View of Seville 12
-
-View of Seville 13
-
-View of Seville 14
-
-Bridge over the Guadalquivir 15
-
-Hercules Avenue 16
-
-The Plaza Nueva 17
-
-View of Triana from the Tower of Gold 18
-
-View of Seville from Triana 19
-
-View of Seville from Triana 20
-
-The Tower of Gold from San Telmo 21
-
-A street in Seville 22
-
-The Tower of Gold 23
-
-Church of San Marcos, from the Palace of the Dueñas 24
-
-Church of San Marcos 25
-
-Court of the Hotel de Madrid 26
-
-Hospital, with the Mosaics painted by Murillo 27
-
-Portal of the Convent of Santa Paula 28
-
-Church of Santa Catalina 29
-
-Church of Todos Santos 30
-
-The Provincial Museum, with Murillo’s statue 31
-
-Statue of Murillo 32
-
-General view of the Town Hall 33
-
-The Town Hall, left side 34
-
-The Town Hall, left side, detail of the interior angle 35
-
-Door of the Town Hall 36
-
-The Town Hall, detail of the principal part 37
-
-General view of the Town Hall 38
-
-The Town Hall, detail of the façade 39
-
-The Town Hall, detail of the principal door 40
-
-Window in the Town Hall 41
-
-Principal facade of the Tobacco Factory 42
-
-The Tobacco Factory 43
-
-Cigar makers, Seville 44
-
-The “Sevillanas” Dance 45
-
-Sevillian Costumes--A Courtyard 46
-
-General view of the Exchange 47
-
-Court in the Exchange 48
-
-The Aceite Postern and ancient ramparts 49
-
-The Roman walls near the gate of the Macarena 50
-
-The Roman Amphitheatre of Italica 51
-
-General view of the Palace of San Telmo from the River 52
-
-Principal Portal of the San Telmo Palace 53
-
-Interior of the Hall of Columns in the San Telmo
-Palace 54
-
-Interior view of the Duke of Montpensier’s study in
-San Telmo 55
-
-Various objects found in the sepulchres at San Telmo.
-(In the Palace of San Telmo) 56
-
-Palms in the Gardens of San Telmo 57
-
-The sepulchres of the victims of Don Juan Tenorio in
-the Gardens of San Telmo 58
-
-The Roman Sepulchres in the Gardens of San Telmo 59
-
-View in the Gardens of San Telmo 60
-
-The Aviary in the Gardens of San Telmo 61
-
-The River in the Gardens of San Telmo 62
-
-The Cocoa Tree and east side of San Telmo 63
-
-The Zapote, a tree in the Gardens of San Telmo 64
-
-The Island and River in the Gardens of San Telmo 65
-
-The Yucca, a rare tree in the Gardens of San Telmo 66
-
-General view of the Hospital de la Sangre 67
-
-Church of the Sagrario, north side 68
-
-Principal façade of the Hospital de la Sangre 69
-
-Porch of the Church of the Hospital de la Sangre 70
-
-Bas-relief, Hospital de la Sangre, the work of
-Torregiano 71
-
-General view of the exterior of the Cathedral 72
-
-The Giralda, from the Patio de los Naranjos 73
-
-The top of the Giralda 74
-
-The Dancing Choir-boys, Seville Cathedral 75
-
-Dancing-boys, Seville Cathedral 76
-
-The Gate of the Archbishop 77
-
-Plaza de San Francisco, with the Giralda and
-Cathedral 78
-
-Plaza del Triunfo, the Cathedral, and the Exchange,
-from the Gate of the Lion 79
-
-The Fête 80
-
-Gate of San Miguel in the Cathedral 81
-
-Gate of the Cathedral called de las Campanillas 82
-
-Gate of the Baptist in the Cathedral 83
-
-The Gate of the Lizard in the Cathedral 84
-
-General view of the Cathedral from the Tribune of the
-principal door 85
-
-Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral 86
-
-Principal Entrance to the Cathedral 87
-
-Interior view of the Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral 88
-
-The Gamba Chapel 89
-
-The Cathedral, the Gamba Chapel, and entrance to that
-of the Antigua 90
-
-Chapels of the Conception and the Annunciation in the
-Cathedral 91
-
-The Cathedral. The Chapel of the Conception 92
-
-The Cathedral. Detail of the High Altar 93
-
-The Cathedral. Retablo, or altar-piece of the High Altar 94
-
-Iron railings of the lateral part of the High Altar 95
-
-The Cathedral. Wrought-iron screen in the Choir 96
-
-The Cathedral. Wrought-iron screen of the High Altar 97
-
-St Christopher carrying the Child Jesus, by Mateo
-Perez Alesio, in the Cathedral 98
-
-San Fernando Square 99
-
-Gardens of the Alcazar 100
-
-General view of the Gardens of the Alcazar 101
-
-View of the Gardens of the Alcazar 102
-
-General view of the Gardens of the Alcazar 103
-
-The Gardens of the Alcazar. Lake and Gallery of Don
-Pedro I., the Cruel 104
-
-The Gardens of the Alcazar. View of the Gallery of
-Don Pedro I., the Cruel 105
-
-The Hothouses in the Gardens of the Alcazar 106
-
-Calle de las Vedras in the Gardens of the Alcazar 107
-
-The Gardens of the Alcazar. Parterre of Doña Maria
-de Padilla 108
-
-The Alcazar. Baths of Doña Maria de Padilla 109
-
-Magnificent altar in faience, painted in the fifteenth
-century. (In the Oratory of the Catholic Sovereigns
-in the Alcazar.) 110
-
-Town Hall of Seville. Details of doors and balconies 111
-
-Town Hall of Seville. Details 112
-
-Parish Church of San Marcos 113
-
-Various Towers of Seville 114
-
-Details of the Mosaic commonly called El Grande 115
-
-Sculpture and details of ancient churches 116
-
-Architectural parts, bas-reliefs, and ceramic objects 117
-
-Façade of the Consistorial houses 118
-
-Entrance to the Alcazar, Seville 119
-
-Principal Façade of the Alcazar 120
-
-Gate of the principal entrance, Alcazar 121
-
-Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar 122
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar 123
-
-Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar 124
-
-Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar 125
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar 126
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar 127
-
-Hall of Ambassadors. Alcazar 128
-
-Upper part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 129
-
-Court of the Dolls from the Room of the Prince, Alcazar 130
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 131
-
-Angle in the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 132
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 133
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 134
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 135
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 136
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 137
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 138
-
-Gallery on the second storey of the Court of the Dolls,
-Alcazar 139
-
-Upper part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 140
-
-Upper part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar 141
-
-Entrance to the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings,
-Alcazar 142
-
-Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar 143
-
-Front of the sleeping-saloon of the Moorish Kings,
-Alcazar 144
-
-Sleeping-saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar 145
-
-Intercolumniation, where Don Fadrique was assassinated,
-Alcazar 146
-
-Sultana’s Quarters, Alcazar 146
-
-Room in which King St Ferdinand died, Alcazar 147
-
-Interior of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar 148
-
-Front of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar 149
-
-Gate of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar 150
-
-Gallery of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar 151
-
-Throne of Justice, Alcazar 152
-
-Court of the Hundred Virgins, Alcazar 153
-
-Court of the Virgins, Alcazar 154
-
-General view of the Court of the Hundred Virgins,
-Alcazar 155
-
-Court of the Virgins, Alcazar 156
-
-Front of the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings and the
-Court of the Virgins, Alcazar 157
-
-Gallery in the Court of the Virgins, Alcazar 158
-
-The Court of the Virgins, Capital of the door of the Hall
-of Ambassadors, Alcazar 159
-
-The Alcazar. Court of the Virgins. Capital of the
-gate of the Hall of Charles V. 160
-
-Palace of the Dueñas, Door of the Chapel 161
-
-Palace of the Dukes of Alcalá, commonly called Casa
-de Pilatos 162
-
-The Court in the House of Pilate 163
-
-Court of the House of Pilate 164
-
-Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate 165
-
-House of Pilate 166
-
-Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate 167
-
-Angle and statue in the House of Pilate 168
-
-House of Pilate. Entrance to the ante-room of the
-Chapel 169
-
-The staircase in the House of Pilate, by Barrera 170
-
-House of Pilate. Entrance door of the Oratory 171
-
-House of Pilate. Way out to the flat roofs in the High
-Gallery 172
-
-Staircase in the House of Pilate 173
-
-House of Pilate. Doors of the officers in the High
-Gallery 174
-
-House of Pilate. Window of the Prætor’s Hall leading
-to the Garden 175
-
-House of Pilate. Barred window in the Prætor’s
-Garden 176
-
-House of Pilate. Bolt on the Prætor’s Gate 177
-
-House of Pilate. Window in the Ante-room of the
-Chapel 178
-
-House of Pilate. Section of the ceiling in the Prætor’s
-Hall 179
-
-Palace of the Dueñas in Seville 180
-
-House of Pilate. Mosaics in the Hall of the Fountain 181
-
-Palace of the Dueñas in Seville. Glazed tiles in the
-socles of the Chapel and arches 182
-
-Mosaic of the Peristyle in the Palace 183
-
-House of Pilate. Mosaic in the Hall of the Fountain 184
-
-Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate 185
-
-Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate 186
-
-Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate 187
-
-House of Pilate. Mosaic in the Chapel 188
-
-Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Born in Seville, 1617 189
-
-Altar-screen of the La Gamba, by Luis de Vargas.
-Seville Cathedral 190
-
-“Descent from the Cross,” by Pedro Campaña,
-Seville Cathedral 191
-
-“St Anthony of Padua visited by the Infant Saviour
-while kneeling at his prayers,” by Murillo.
-Seville Cathedral 192
-
-“Our Lord baptized by St John Baptist,” by Murillo.
-Seville Cathedral 193
-
-“The Guardian Angel,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral 194
-
-“St Leander,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral 195
-
-“St Isidore,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral 196
-
-“St Ferdinand, crowned and robed,” by Murillo.
-Seville Cathedral 197
-
-“Madre Francisca Dorotea Villalda,” by Murillo.
-Seville Cathedral 198
-
-“St Anthony with the Infant Saviour,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 199
-
-“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by
-Murillo. Seville Museum 200
-
-“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by
-Murillo. Seville Museum 201
-
-“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by
-Murillo. Seville Museum 202
-
-“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by
-Murillo. Seville Museum 203
-
-“St Justa and St Rufina, Patron Saints of Seville,
-holding between them the Giralda Tower,” by
-Murillo. Seville Museum 204
-
-“St Bonaventure and St Leander,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 205
-
-“St Thomas of Villanueva, giving alms at the door of
-his Cathedral,” by Murillo. Seville Museum 206
-
-“The Annunciation of Our Lady,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 207
-
-“St Felix of Cantalisi, restoring to Our Lady the
-Infant Saviour, whom she had placed in his arms,”
-by Murillo. Seville Museum 208
-
-“Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem,” by
-Murillo. Seville Museum 209
-
-“St Peter Nolasco kneeling before Our Lady of
-Mercy,” by Murillo. Seville Museum 210
-
-“The Deposition,--St Francis of Assisi supporting
-the body of Our Lord nailed by the left hand to the
-Cross,” by Murillo. Seville Museum 211
-
-“St Joseph and the Infant Saviour,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 212
-
-“St John the Baptist in the Desert leaning against a
-rock,” by Murillo. Seville Museum 213
-
-“St Augustine and the Flaming Heart,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 214
-
-“St Felix of Cantalisi and the Infant Jesus,” known
-as “San Felix de las Arrugas,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 215
-
-“St Anthony with the Infant Saviour,” by Murillo.
-Seville Museum 216
-
-“Deposition from the Cross,” by Murillo. Seville
-Museum 217
-
-“Our Lady with the Infant Saviour in her Arms,” by
-Murillo. (An early picture.) Seville Museum 218
-
-“Our Lady and the Infant Saviour,” known as “La
-Virgen de la Servilleta,” by Murillo. Seville
-Museum 219
-
-“Our Lady seated, with the Infant Saviour in her lap,”
-by Murillo. (An early picture.) Seville Museum 220
-
-“St Thomas of Aquin,” by Zurbarán. Seville Museum 221
-
-“The Virgin of the Grotto,” by Zurbarán. Seville
-Museum 222
-
-“St Bruno talking to the Pope,” by Zurbarán. Seville
-Museum 223
-
-“The Day of Judgment,” by Martin de Vos. Seville
-Museum 224
-
-“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by J.
-Valdes Leal. Seville Museum 225
-
-“Jesus crowning St Joseph,” by Zurbarán. Seville
-Museum 226
-
-“The Devout Punyon,” by Zurbarán. Seville
-Museum 227
-
-“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” the
-Virgin surrounded by Cherubim, by Fr. Pacheco.
-Seville Museum 228
-
-“Our Lord’s Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,” by
-Murillo. Seville Hospital 229
-
-“Moses striking the Rock in Horeb,” by Murillo. La
-Caridad, Seville 230
-
-“St John of God, sinking under the weight of a sick
-man, assisted by an Angel,” by Murillo. La
-Caridad, Seville 231
-
-“The Death of St Hermenigild” by J. de las Roelas.
-Hospital de la Sangre, Seville 232
-
-“The Apostleship,” by Juan de las Roelas. Hospital
-de la Sangre, Seville 233
-
-“The End of this World’s Glories,” by Valdes Leal.
-La Caridad, Seville 234
-
-“Pietà, or the Virgin supporting the dead body of
-her Divine Son,” altar-screen, by Luis de Vargas.
-Santa Maria la Blanca, Seville 235
-
-“St Joseph, holding the Infant Saviour in his arms,”
-by Murillo. San Telmo, Seville 236
-
-“Our Lady of the Girdle,” by Murillo, San Telmo,
-Seville 237
-
-“Portrait of Ferdinand VII.,” by Goya. San Telmo,
-Seville 238
-
-“Portrait of Charles IV.,” by Goya. San Telmo,
-Seville 239
-
-“The Annunciation,” by F. Zurbarán. San Telmo,
-Seville 240
-
-“The Death of Laocoon and his Sons at the Siege of
-Troy,” by El Greco. San Telmo, Seville 241
-
-“Caton of Utique tearing open his wounds,” by Josef
-Ribera. San Telmo, Seville 242
-
-“Pietà. The Virgin holding the dead Saviour in her
-arms,” by Morales. San Telmo, Seville 243
-
-“Portrait of El Greco,” by himself. Gallery of San
-Telmo, Seville 244
-
-“The Miracle of St Vœu. St Hugo in the refectory
-with several Chartreux,” by Zurbarán. Seville
-Museum 245
-
-“The Martyrdom of St Andrew,” by J. de las Roelas.
-Seville Museum 246
-
-“The Last Supper,” by P. de Cespedes. Seville
-Museum 247
-
-“Christ on the Cross,” by Zurbarán. Seville Museum 248
-
-Portrait of the figure in Pacheco’s picture at Seville,
-supposed to represent Cervantes 249
-
-“The Virgin and the Child Jesus,” by Alonso Cano.
-Seville Cathedral 250
-
-“The Descent from the Cross,” by Alego Fernandez.
-Seville Cathedral 251
-
-The Cathedral 252
-
-The Giralda 253
-
-The Giralda 254
-
-Cathedral. The Gate of Pardon 255
-
-Cathedral. Puerta de los Palos 256
-
-Plan of the Cathedral 257
-
-Cathedral. View of an organ 258
-
-Cathedral. Monument to Columbus 259
-
-Cathedral. Silver Tabernacle (weighing forty-five
-arrobas) 260
-
-Alcazar Gardens 261
-
-Alcazar Gardens 262
-
-Alcazar Gardens 263
-
-House of Pilate. The Goddess Ceres 264
-
-House of Pilate. The Goddess Pallas Pacifer 265
-
-Italica 266
-
-Roman Walls 267
-
-Patio de Banderas and the Giralda 268
-
-Plaza de San Francisco 269
-
-St Mark’s Church 270
-
-Plaza de San Fernando 271
-
-The Town Hall. Details of the old part 272
-
-Façade of the Palace of San Telmo 273
-
-Statue of Velazquez 274
-
-Plaza de la Constitución 275
-
-Plaza de la Constitución 276
-
-Calle de Sierpes 277
-
-Calle de Sierpes 278
-
-A street in Seville 279
-
-Hercules Avenue 280
-
-The Pasadera 281
-
-Courtyard of La Caridad 282
-
-Plaza de San Fernando 283
-
-Plaza de Gavidia 284
-
-View from the Pasadera 285
-
-The Drive 286
-
-Paseo de las Delicias 287
-
-The Quay 288
-
-Partial view of Seville 289
-
-Plaza de Toros 290
-
-Fields of San Sebastian 291
-
-Park of Maria Luisa 292
-
-Railway Station of M.Z.A. Principal Façade 293
-
-Railway Station of M.Z.A. General View 294
-
-Triana Bridge 295
-
-View from Triana Bridge 296
-
-View from Triana 297
-
-San Telmo from Triana 298
-
-The Cathedral. Our Lord Crucified. Sculpture in the
-Sacristy 299
-
-Plan of Seville 300
-
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-
-
-SEVILLE
-
-
-Seville is the most Spanish of the cities of Spain. On her white walls
-the sunlight plays perpetually, the air is laden with the scent of the
-orange, the sound of the guitar and castanets is heard continually in
-the narrow streets. This is the South of romance, the South of which
-northerners dream and towards which so many of them are drawn by an
-irresistible fascination. The cities of Leon and Castile are grim and
-Gothic. Cordova is Moorish; but Seville is not essentially one nor
-the other, but presents that blending of both styles which makes her
-typical, which stands for all that Spain means to the average foreigner.
-
-Seville lives. Cordova is dead, and Granada broods over her past. These
-are cemeteries of a vanished civilisation. Alone among the ancient
-seats of Moorish dominion, Seville has maintained her prosperity. Her
-wharves, as in the days of Al Mansûr, are still the resort of sailors
-from many lands. There is still wealth in her palaces and genius in her
-schools. To-day she holds the first place in native art, and Garcia
-y Ramos, Sanchez Perrier, Jimenez Aranda, and Bilbao not unworthily
-continue the traditions of Murillo and Zurbarán.
-
-The city is Moorish, but informed throughout with the spirit of Spain.
-In Cordova the Spaniard seems a stranger; in Seville he has assimilated
-and adapted all that was bequeathed by his onetime rulers till you
-might think the place had always been his. It is as though the glowing
-metal of Andalusian life and temper had been poured into a mould made
-expressly by other hands to receive it. Thus Seville has not died nor
-decayed like her rivals. Her vitality intoxicates the northerner.
-Valdés says, “Seville has ever been for me the symbol of light, the
-city of love and joy.”
-
-In my book, “Moorish Remains in Spain,” I have sketched the history
-of the city and briefly referred to its importance under the Roman
-sway. With the few monuments remaining from that time I do not purpose
-dealing separately--incorporated as they have been, for the most part,
-with works of more recent construction. Nor has Roman influence left
-very profound traces in Seville, any more than in the rest of Spain.
-Señor Rafael Contreras justly remarks that Roman civilisation made
-no deep impression on the country or the people. “We have in Spain,”
-he continues, “aqueducts, bridges, circuses, baths, roads, vases,
-urns, milliaria, statues, and jewellery. Specimens are still found,
-but, strictly speaking, art with us has never been either Roman or
-Greek.” And Seville, in particular, even during the Roman occupation,
-was rather a Punic than a Latin town. As to the successors of the
-Cæsars--the Visigoths--to them can only be ascribed a few capitals and
-stone ornaments, roughly executed in the Byzantine style. These, like
-the Roman remains, were used by the Moors in the construction of those
-buildings that have determined the physiognomy of Seville.
-
-
-
-
-MOORISH SEVILLE
-
-
-Seville was not among the spoils of Tarik, conqueror at the Guadalete.
-That general having directed his march upon Toledo, it was reserved to
-his superior officer, Musa Ben Nosseyr, to subdue the proudest city
-of Bætica. The citizens held out for a month and then retired upon
-Beja in Alemtejo. The Arabian commander left a garrison in the city,
-henceforward to be known for five hundred and thirty-six years as
-Ishbiliyah, and pushed forward to Merida. The Sevillians took advantage
-of his absence to shake off his yoke, assisted by the people of Beja
-and Niebla. Their triumph was short lived. Abdelasis, son of Musa, fell
-upon them like a thunderbolt, extinguished the rising in blood, and
-made the city the seat of government of the newly acquired provinces.
-
-The interesting personality and tragic fate of Seville’s first Viceroy
-have made the site of his residence a question of some importance.
-It was formerly believed that he occupied the Acropolis or Citadel,
-supposed then to be covered by the Alcazar. The researches of Señores
-Gayangos and Madrazo have made it plain, however, that he established
-his headquarters in a church which had been dedicated by the sister of
-St Isidore to the martyrs Rufina and Justa, now amalgamated with the
-convent of La Trinidad. Adjacent to this building Abdelasis erected a
-mosque; and it was within its walls, while reciting the first surah of
-the Koran, that he was assassinated by the emissaries of the Khalif of
-Damascus--death being a not uncommon reward in the Middle Ages for too
-brilliant military services rendered to one’s sovereign.
-
-The seat of government was transferred, soon after the murder of the
-son of Musa, to Cordova, and Seville sank for a time to a subsidiary
-rank. The various cities of Andalusia were allotted by the governor
-Abdelmelic among the different Syrian peoples who had flocked over
-on the news of the conquest; and Ishbiliyah, according to Señor de
-Madrazo, was assigned to the citizens of Horns, the classic Emesa.
-Owing to intermarriage between the conquerors and the natives, the
-distinction between the Moslems according to the places of origin
-of these early settlers was soon lost in that drawn between the
-pure-blooded Arabs and the Muwallads or half-breeds. In the meantime
-the germs of Arabian culture had fallen upon a kindly soil, and a
-new school of art and letters was in process of formation in Spain.
-The imposing monuments of Roman, Greek, and Byzantine civilisation,
-which the victorious hosts of Islam found ever in their path, were not
-without influence upon their conceptions of the beautiful in form.
-The fusion of the Hispano-Goths and Arabs likewise tended to produce
-a commingling of spirit, and ultimately to give birth to an art and
-a culture racy of the soil. “According to all contemporary writers,”
-says Señor Rafael Contreras, “it is beyond all doubt that the style
-which the artists of the Renaissance called Moorish (in the sense of
-originating in Northern Africa) was never anything of the sort. The
-details so much admired on account of their richness, the vaultings and
-the arched hollows practised in the walls, the festoons of the arches,
-the _commarajias_ and _alicates_, were Spanish works finer and more
-delicate than those of the East. The root was originally in Arabia, but
-it was happily transplanted to Spain, where blossomed that beautiful
-flower which diffuses its perfume after a lapse of seven centuries.”
-
-Under the Western Khalifate, Seville flourished in spite of the
-assaults and internecine warfare of which it was frequently the
-theatre. When in 888 Andalusia became temporarily split up into several
-nominally independent states, the city acknowledged the sway of Ibrahim
-Ibn Hajjaj. The chronicler Ben Hayán, often quoted by Señor de Madrazo,
-describes this prince as keeping up imperial state and riding forth
-attended by five hundred horsemen. He ventured to assume the _tiraz_,
-the official garb of the Amirs of Cordova. To his court flocked the
-poets, the singers, and the wise men of Islam. Of him it was written,
-“In all the West I find no right noble man save Ibrahim, but he is
-nobility itself. When one has known the delight of living with him,
-to dwell in any other land is misery.” Flattery did not blind the
-sagacious Ibn Hajjaj to the insecurity of his position, and he bowed
-before the rising star of the new Khalifa, Abd-er-Rahman III. In 913
-Ishbiliyah opened her gates to that powerful ruler and again became
-subject to Cordova. The city lost nothing by its timely submission. The
-generous and beneficent Khalifa narrowed and deepened the channel of
-the Guadalquivir, thus rendering it navigable. He introduced the palm
-tree from Africa, planted gardens, and adorned the city with splendid
-edifices. Much of the splendour of the Court of Cordova was reflected
-on Seville, which certainly rivalled the capital as a seat of learning.
-Among its citizens was Abu Omar Ahmed Ben Abdallah, surnamed _El Begi_
-or “the Sage,” the author of an encyclopædia of sciences, which was
-long esteemed as a work of marvellous erudition. According to Condé,
-Abdallah was frequently consulted by the magistrates, even in his early
-youth, in affairs of the gravest import.
-
-The public edifices of the Pearl of Andalusia were no doubt worthy of
-its fame as a home of wisdom and culture. In addition to the mosque
-built by Abdelasis, near or on the spot where the convent of La
-Trinidad now stands, a notable ornament of the city was the mosque
-raised on the site of the basilica of St Vincent--immortalised by
-several memorable Councils. “But who,” asks Señor de Madrazo, “would
-be capable to-day of describing this edifice? Nothing of it remains
-except the memory of the place where it stood. Other structures,
-ampler and more majestic, replaced it when, under the Almoravides and
-Almohades, Seville recovered its rank as an independent kingdom. Let
-us content ourselves with recording that the principal mosque, built
-at the same time as and on the model of that of Cordova, although on
-a smaller and less sumptuous scale, was situated on the site of the
-existing Cathedral, and that in the ninth century it was burnt by the
-Normans. In consequence it is impossible to say if the great horseshoe
-arches which occur in the cloister of the Cathedral are works earlier
-or later than that event. It does not appear probable that in the time
-of the Khalifs the mosque of Seville could have had the considerable
-dimensions suggested by the northern boundary of the _patio de los
-naranjos_. That line is 330 Castilian feet, which would give the
-mosque, extending from north to south, a length about double, the
-breadth of the atrium included--unlikely dimensions for a temple which,
-compared with the Jama of Cordova, was unquestionably of the second
-class. No one knows who ordered the construction of the primitive
-mosque of Seville.”
-
-The irruption of the Normans, one of the results of which was the
-demolition of this edifice, took place in 859. The pirates were
-afterwards defeated off the coast of Murcia by the Moorish squadron,
-and made sail for Catalonia. A serious descent had taken place in
-844. Lisbon was the first city to fall a victim to the Northmen, whom
-we next hear of at Cadiz and at Sidonia, where they defeated the
-Khalifa’s troops in a pitched battle. Fierce fighting took place before
-the walls of Ishbiliyah, the invaders being uniformly victorious. Laden
-with the richest booty, they at length retired overland to Lisbon,
-where they took to their ships. They not only destroyed the mosque of
-Seville, but threw down the city walls, which dated from Roman times.
-These were repaired by Abd-er-Rahman II., to be partially demolished
-again by Abd-er-Rahman III. on his triumphal entry into the amirate of
-Ibrahim Ibn Hajjaj.
-
-The subjection of Seville to the yoke of the Khalifs of Cordova was,
-unhappily for the city and for Islam generally, not of long duration.
-The mighty Wizir, Al Mansûr, restored the waning power of the Crescent
-and drove back the Christians into the mountain fastnesses of the
-North. But the collapse of the Western Khalifate had been postponed,
-not averted. This Al Mansûr well knew. On his deathbed he reproached
-his son for yielding to unmanly tears, saying, “This is to me a
-signal of the approaching decay of this empire.” His prediction did
-not long await fulfilment. In 1009, seven years after his death, his
-second son, Abd-er-Rahman Sanjul, had the audacity to proclaim himself
-the Khalif Hisham’s heir. The empire became at once resolved into
-its component parts. On all sides the kadis and governors revolted.
-Independent amirates were set up in all the considerable towns. At
-Ishbiliyah the shrewd and powerful kadi, Mohammed Ben Abbad, perceived
-his opportunity, but contrived to excuse his ambition by a specious
-pretence of legality. An impostor, impersonating the legitimate
-Khalifa, Hisham, appeared on the troubled scene. Ben Abbad espoused his
-cause and pretended to govern the city in his name. His power firmly
-established, the kadi announced that the Khalifa was dead and had
-designated him as his lawful successor. For the second time, Seville
-rose to the dignity of an independent state.
-
-The Abbadites were a splendour-loving race. Their Court was extolled by
-Arabian writers as rivalling that of the Abbasside sultans. Under their
-rule the city waxed every year more beautiful, more prosperous. Patrons
-of art and letters, the amirs were vigorous and capable sovereigns, and
-in all Musulman Spain no state was more powerful than theirs, except
-Toledo. The second monarch of the dynasty, Abu Amru Abbad, better known
-as Mo’temid, was a mighty warrior. He reduced Algarve and took Cordova.
-When not engaged in martial exploits he took delight in composing
-verses, in the society of talented men, and in the contemplation of
-the garden of his enemies’ heads, which he had laid out at the door of
-his palace. He was succeeded in 1069 by his son Abul-Kasim Mohammed, a
-native of Beja.
-
-The Crescent was waning. All Al Mansûr’s conquests had been recovered
-by the Christians. Toledo fell before the arms of Alfonso III. The
-Castilians overran Portugal and penetrated into Andalusia. The Amir
-of Ishbiliyah took the only course open to him at the moment, and
-cultivated the friendship of the Castilian king. He consented to the
-removal of the body of St Isidore from Italica to Leon, and gave his
-daughter Zayda in a sort of left-handed marriage to Alfonso III. As the
-Christian king was already the husband of Queen Constancia, and Zayda’s
-dowry consisted of the most valuable conquests of the Amir Mut’adid,
-this transaction did not reflect much credit on either party. But it
-purchased for Seville a period of peace and security, during which its
-inhabitants became hopelessly enervated by luxury and ease.
-
-The Abbadite sovereigns have left but few traces on the city which
-they did so much to embellish and improve. To them, however, may be
-ascribed the foundation of the Alcazar. Such at least is the opinion
-of Señor de Madrazo. In the horseshoe arches of the Salón de los
-Embajadores with their rich Corinthian capitals--on which the names of
-different Khalifas are inscribed--we detect a resemblance to the mosque
-of Cordova, and recognise the early Saracenic style, unaffected by
-African, or properly Moorish, influence. To the same period and school
-of architecture, Señor de Madrazo attributes the ornate arcading of the
-narrow staircase leading from the entrance court to near the balcony
-of the chapel; and the three arches with capitals in the abandoned
-apartment adjoining the Salón de los Principes. The ultra-semicircular
-curve of the arch occurs very rarely in later or true Moorish
-architecture.
-
-The Moslem conquerors had, in the majority of cases, converted to their
-use the Christian churches in the cities they occupied. Many of the
-mosques that adorned Ishbiliyah during the reign of the race of Abbad
-had been adapted in this way, the lines of pillars being readjusted in
-most cases to give the structure that south-easterly direction that the
-law of Islam required. Traces of these Abbadite mosques remain in the
-churches of San Juan Bautista and San Salvador. On the wall of the
-former was found an inscription which has been thus translated by Don
-Pascual de Gayangos: “In the name of the clement and merciful Allah.
-May the blessing of Allah be on Mohammed, the seal of the Prophets. The
-Princess and august mother of Er-Rashid Abu-l-hosaya Obayd’ allah, son
-of Mut’amid Abu-l-Kasim Mohammed Ben Abbad (may Allah make his empire
-and power lasting, as well as the glory of both!), ordered this minaret
-to be raised in her mosque (which may Allah preserve!), awaiting the
-abundance of His rewards; and the work was finished, with the help of
-Allah, by the hand of the Wizir and Katib, the Amir Abu-l-Kasim Ben
-Battah (may Allah be propitious to me!), in the moon of Shaaban, in the
-year 478.”
-
-The site of the present collegiate church of San Salvador was occupied
-by a mosque, which was used by the Moors for a considerable time after
-the Christian conquest, and preserved its form down to the year 1669.
-An inscription on white marble relates that a minaret was constructed
-in the year 1080, by Mut’amid Ben Abbad, that “the calling to prayer
-might not be interrupted.”
-
-The reign of the Abbadites was brought to a close by the advent of the
-Almoravides (a word allied to _Marabut_), who, at the invitation of
-the Andalusian amirs, invaded Spain in the last quarter of the eleventh
-century. It was a story common enough in history. The Africans came at
-first as the friends and allies of the Spanish Arabs, and effectually
-stemmed the tide of Christian successes; but in 1091, Yusuf, the
-Almoravide leader, annexed Ishbiliyah and all Andalusia to his vast
-empire. The city became a mere provincial centre, the appanage of
-the Berber monarch. Mo’temid, loaded with chains, was transported to
-Africa, where he died in 1095, having reigned as amir twenty-seven
-years.
-
-The Almoravides lived by the sword and perished by the sword.
-Perpetually engaged in warfare, among themselves or with the
-Christians, they left no deep impress on the character of Seville or
-of Andalusia generally. With them the student of the arts in Spain has
-little concern. They burst like a tornado over the land, destroying
-much, creating nothing. Little more than half-a-century had passed
-since the downfall of the Abbadites, when the star of the Almoravides
-paled before the rising crescent of the Almohades or Al Muwahedun. The
-new sectaries, as fierce as their predecessors, but more indomitable
-and austere, wrested all Barbary from the descendants of Tashrin and
-annexed Ishbiliyah to their empire in 1146.
-
-The reign of the Almohades is the most interesting period in the
-history of the city. It was marked by the foundation of Seville’s most
-important existing edifices, and by the introduction of a new style
-of architecture. Hitherto, what is loosely called Moorish art, had
-been native Andalusian art, following Saracenic or Syrian ideals. Of
-this first period, the Mezquita at Cordova is the finest monument.
-Seville is peculiarly the city of the second, or true, Moorish period.
-Byzantine and Oriental influences disappeared and were supplanted by
-the African or, more properly, Berber, character. The new conquerors
-of Andalusia were a rude, hardy race, and we find something virile
-and coarse in their architecture. “Beside the Giralda of Seville,”
-remarks Herr Karl Eugen Schmidt, “the columns of the mosque of Cordova
-seem small; the pretty halls of the Alhambra have something weak and
-feminine.” The weakness of the Almohade builders, as is usually the
-case with imperfectly civilised peoples, lay in an excessive fondness
-for ornamentation. Señor de Madrazo’s criticism, though severe, is,
-on the whole, just. While admitting the beauty of certain of their
-innovations, such as the stalactited dome (afterwards carried out
-with so much effect at Granada) and the pointed arch, he goes on to
-say, “The Almohade architecture displays that debased taste which
-is imitative rather than instinctive, and which creates only by
-exaggerating forms to a degree inconsistent with the design--differing
-from the Mudejar work of the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries,
-which reveals an instinctive feeling for the beautiful in ornament,
-which never loses sight of the graceful, the elegant, and the bold, and
-which consequently never betrays any aberration. The Almohade style,
-in short, at once manifests the vigour of the barbarian civilised
-by conquest; the Mudejar style has the enduring character of the
-works of a man of taste, wise in good and evil fortune; both are the
-faithful expression of the culture of peoples of different origins and
-aptitudes.” Elsewhere the same authority observes, “It is certain that
-the innovation characteristic of Musulman architecture in Spain in
-the eleventh and twelfth centuries, cannot be explained as a natural
-mutation from the Arabic art of the Khalifate, or as a prelude to
-the art of Granada, because there is very little similarity between
-the style called secondary or Moorish and the Arab-Byzantine and
-Andalusian; while, on the other hand, it is evident that the Saracenic
-monuments of Fez and Morocco, of the reigns of Yusuf Ben Tashfin,
-Abdul Ben Ali, Al Mansûr, and Nasr, partake of the character of the
-ornamentation introduced by the Almohades into Spain.”
-
-The most important example of this style is the Giralda, now adjacent
-to the magnificent Christian cathedral which was reared in later
-days on the foundations of the great mosque. Señor de Madrazo has
-reconstructed for us the general form and aspect of the finest monument
-of Almohade piety. The mosque replaced that which had been destroyed
-by the Normans, and appears to have embodied some part of the original
-structure, to judge from the horseshoe arches still to be seen in the
-Claustro de la Granada. The work was begun by order of Yusuf, the son
-of Abd-er-Rahman, the founder of the dynasty. The mosque formed a
-rectangle, extending from north to south, and surrounded by cloisters
-and courtyards. The interior was divided into longitudinal naves by a
-series of marble columns, which supported an adorned ceiling of carved
-and painted wood. The _mihrab_, or sanctuary, would have been at the
-southern extremity, after the Syrian custom, it taking the Spanish
-Muslims some time to realise that Mecca lay east rather than south
-of Andalusia. The mosque would also have contained a _maksurrah_, or
-vestibule, for the imam and his officials, the _nimbar_, or pulpit, for
-the sovereign, and the tribune for the preacher. In the northern court
-was the existing fountain for ablutions, surmounted by a cupola, and
-surrounded by orange and palm-trees. The eastern court was known as the
-Court of the Elms. In all probability, attached to the sacred edifice,
-was the _turbeh_, or tomb of the founder.
-
-The Giralda is not only the most important and famous of minarets, but
-is among the three or four most remarkable towers in the world. It is
-more to Seville than Giotto’s campanile to Florence; it rivals in fame
-the now vanished campanile of St Mark’s. Unlike similar edifices in
-Egypt and Syria, minarets among the western Moslems were built strong
-and massive, rather than slender and elegant. The Giralda,” says Herr
-Schmidt, “is one of the strongest buildings in the world, and few of
-our Christian church towers could have withstood so successfully the
-lightning and the earthquake.”
-
-The Giralda is quadrangular in section, and covers a space of 13.60
-square metres. The architect--whose name is variously spelt Gever,
-Hever, and Djabir--is said to have used quantities of Roman remains
-and statuary as a base for the foundations. The thickness of the
-wall at the base is nine feet, but it increases with the height, the
-interior space narrowing accordingly. The lower part of the tower is of
-stone, the upper part of brick. At a height of about 15 metres above
-the ground begin those decorations in stone which lend such elegance
-and beauty to this stout structure. They consist in vertical series of
-windows--mostly _ajimeces_ or twin-windows--some with the horseshoe,
-others the pointed arch, flanked on either side by broad vertical bands
-of beautiful stone tracery, resembling trellis-work. The windows are
-enclosed in arches which exhibit considerable diversity of design. The
-decoration as a whole is harmonious and beautiful.
-
-The Moorish tower only reaches to a height of 70 metres. The remaining
-portion, reaching upwards for another 25 metres, is of Christian
-workmanship. Before this was added, the tower appears to have been
-crowned, like most West African minarets, by a small pinnacle or
-turret. This supported four balls or apples of gilded copper, one of
-which was so large that the gates of Seville had to be widened that it
-might be brought into the city. The iron bar which supported the balls
-weighed about ten hundredweights, and the whole was cast by a Sicilian
-Arab named Abu Leyth, at a cost of £50,000 sterling. We owe these
-particulars to a Mohammedan writer of the period, and his accuracy was
-confirmed in 1395, when the balls, having been thrown to the ground by
-an earthquake, were carefully weighed and examined.
-
-The upper or newer part of the Giralda was built by Fernando Ruiz
-in 1568. Despite its Doric and Ionic columns and Renaissance style,
-it does not mar the beauty and harmony of the whole building, and
-is itself a remarkably graceful work. The entablature of the second
-stage or storey bears the words _Turris fortissima Nomen Domini_. The
-whole fabric is surmounted by the bronze statue of Faith, executed
-by Bartolomé Morel in 1568. It stands fourteen feet high, and weighs
-twenty-five hundredweights, yet so wonderful is the workmanship that
-it turns with every breath of the wind. Hence the name applied to the
-whole tower--Giralda--from _que gira_, “which turns.” The figure wears
-a Roman helmet. The right hand clasps the labarum of Constantine, and
-the left a palm branch symbolical of victory.
-
-The Giralda is ascended by means of thirty-five inclined planes, up
-which a horse might be ridden with ease to the very top. The various
-_cuerpos_ or stages of the ascent are all named. The Cuerpo de Campanas
-is named after its fine peal of bells. The bell named Santa Maria was
-hung in 1588 by order of the Archbishop Gonzalo de Mena. It cost ten
-thousand ducats, and weighs eighteen tons. The Cuerpo de Azucenas (or
-of the lilies) is so named after its urns with floral decorations in
-ironwork. El Cuerpo del Reloj (clock tower) contains a clock partly
-constructed in 1765 by the monk José Cordero, with pieces of another
-placed here in 1400 in the presence of Don Enrique III.--the first
-tower-clock set up in Spain. The Cuerpos de Estrellas (stars) and de
-las Corambolas (billiard-balls) are named after the predominant devices
-in their schemes of decoration.
-
-The highest platform of the Giralda affords, as might be expected,
-a very extensive view. On the whole, the prospect is disappointing.
-The neighbourhood of Seville is not beautiful, nor are there any
-very notable sites or natural features included within the panorama.
-Standing below Morel’s great statue, however, and gazing down upon the
-city, interesting considerations naturally present themselves. That
-the figure of Christian faith should thus be reared on the summit of a
-building specially intended to stimulate the zeal and to excite the
-devotion of the followers of Islam is a reflection calculated to give
-profound satisfaction to the devout Spaniard. The whimsical philosopher
-may also find an appropriateness in the handiwork of the men of the
-simpler, cruder faith conducting one upwards to the more refined and
-complicated creed. I do not know if Mohammedans ever visit Seville.
-If so, they doubtless console themselves for the desecration of their
-sacred edifices by thoughts of Hagia Sophia and the onetime Christian
-churches of the East. And the Giralda has fared better at the hands of
-the Christians than many a church of their own has done. I may instance
-the chapel at Mayence, which with practically no alteration in its
-architecture and internal arrangements now serves the purpose of a
-beer-shop.
-
-As the Giralda attests the size and beauty of the great mosque, so
-several smaller towers exist in Seville to mark the sites of the lesser
-Mohammedan temples. The most important of these is the tower or minaret
-of San Marcos. It is seventy-five feet high and ten feet broad--the
-highest edifice in the city except the Giralda. It is built according
-to the pure Almohade style, “without any admixture,” points out Señor
-de Madrazo, “of the features taken from the Christian architecture of
-the West.” According to Mr Walter M. Gallichan there is a tradition
-that Cervantes used to ascend this tower to scan the vicinity in
-search of a Sevillian beauty of whom he was enamoured. The church is
-Gothic, and dates from 1478, but the beautiful portal exhibits Mudejar
-workmanship, and may be ascribed to the days of St Ferdinand or of his
-immediate successors.
-
-The parish churches of San Juan Bautista, Santa Marina, San Esteban,
-Santiago, Santa Catalina, San Julián, San Ildefonso, San Andrés, San
-Vicente, San Lorenzo, San Bartolomé, Santa Cruz, and Santa Maria de las
-Nieves (some of which no longer exist), were all mosques during the
-Almohade era. A few continue to preserve their minarets and _mihrabs_,
-generally restored and modified almost beyond recognition.
-
-While attending by the construction of these numerous places of worship
-to the spiritual needs of their subjects, the Almohade rulers neglected
-no means of strengthening Ishbiliyah and of promoting its general
-prosperity. The city became the most important seat of Mohammedan power
-in the West. Trade rapidly increased, and the town became the principal
-resort of the weavers, metal-workers, and other prominent Moorish
-craftsmen. Abu Yakub Yusuf was the first to throw a bridge of boats
-across the Guadalquivir, over which troops first passed on October
-11th, 1171. This bridge immensely added to the strength of the city as
-a fortified place, as it established permanent communication between
-it and its principal source of supplies, the fertile district called
-the Ajarafa on the right bank of the river. The charms of this expanse,
-otherwise known as the Orchard of Hercules, are rapturously described
-by Arab historians. These are the words of the poet Ibn Saffar: “The
-Ajarafa surpasseth in beauty and fertility all the lands of the world.
-The oil of its olives goeth even to far Alexandria; its farms and
-orchards exceed those of other countries in size and convenience; so
-white and clean are they, that they appear like so many stars in a
-sky of olive gardens.” The Ajarafa is an Arabia Felix without wild
-beasts, the Guadalquivir a Nile without crocodiles. El Makkari says it
-measured about forty miles in each direction and contained a numerous
-population. Those who know the rather dreary country extending westward
-of the modern city will realise the melancholy change brought about by
-time.
-
-The city then, as now, was girdled by strong walls. The gates
-were twelve in number. Those not turned towards the river were
-strongly fortified with towers and bastions. The farther bank of the
-Guadalquivir was defended by castles and redoubts. Upwards of a hundred
-keeps and watch-towers studded the adjacent country.
-
-One of the most vital points in the defensive works was the
-poetically-named Torre del Oro (tower of gold), which still exists, and
-is familiar to every visitor to the city. The tower is a twelve-sided
-polygon of three storeys. It is surmounted by a smaller tower, also
-of twelve sides, which in turn supports a small round cupola. This
-superstructure was added in the eighteenth century, whereas the main
-building was erected by the Almohade governor Abu-l-Ala in the year
-1220. The tower was in those days connected with the walls of the city
-by what is called in military parlance a curtain, which was pulled
-down as late as in 1821. The outwork faced another watch-tower on the
-opposite bank of the river, and a great iron chain was drawn from the
-one to the other, effectually closing the harbour against hostile
-vessels. The assaults of the foeman and the deadlier ravages of time
-have stripped this strong and graceful monument of the beautiful tiles
-or _azulejos_ with which it was once adorned, and which seemed to have
-earned for it its present name. No Danaë, alas! waits in this tower of
-gold to-day for tyrant or deliverer. The place is occupied by clerks,
-whose pens are ever busy recording the shipments of coal brought by
-incoming steamers; and the immediate vicinity is infested by “tramp”
-sailors of all nationalities, mostly British, for whose benefit,
-presumably, rum, “Old Tom,” and other stimulating but unromantic
-beverages are dispensed at kiosks and bars.
-
-The spot appears to have been the scene of a picturesque episode
-recounted by Contreras. It is worth repeating as revealing the polished
-character of the dusky amirs who ruled in Ishbiliyah three hundred
-years before Charles of Orleans devoted his declining years, in his
-palace by the Loire, to the making of ballads, triolets, and rondeaux.
-
-The Abbadite amir, Mut’adid-billah, was walking one day in the field
-of Marchab Afida, on the banks of the Guadalquivir, and observed the
-breeze ruffling the surface of the water. He improvised the line--
-
- “The breeze makes of the water a cuirass”--
-
-and turning to the poet Aben Amr, called upon him to complete
-the verse. While the laureate was still in the throes of poetical
-parturition, a young girl of the people who happened to be standing by,
-anticipated him, and gave utterance to these original lines--
-
- “A cuirass strong, magnificent for combat,
- As if the water had been frozen truly.”
-
-The prince was astonished at this display of the lyrical gift by a
-woman of her condition, and ordered one of his eunuchs to conduct her
-to the palace. On being questioned, she informed him that she was
-called Romikiwa, because she was the slave of Romiya, and was a driver
-of mules.
-
-“Are you married?” asked the prince.
-
-“No, sire.”
-
-“It is well, for I shall buy you and marry you.”
-
-It is to be hoped that Romikiwa’s merits as a wife exceeded her
-abilities as a poetess.
-
-The Alcazar, the palace inhabited by this dilettante amir and his
-successors of the race of Abbad, continued to be the principal
-residence of the subsequent rulers of Ishbiliyah, both Almoravides
-and Almohades. There can be no doubt that the latter restored and
-reconstructed the building to an extent that almost effaced the work
-of the founders. But the impress of the Berber architects was in its
-turn almost entirely lost when the fabric came into the possession of
-the Christians. Thus the Alcazar cannot be rightly classed among the
-monuments of the Almohade period. It is certain that its extent at this
-time was greater than it is now. Its enclosure was bounded by the city
-wall, which ran down to the river, and occupied the whole angle formed
-by the two. The Alcazar was then primarily a fortress, and its walls
-were flanked on every side by watch-towers such as those with which its
-front is still furnished. The principal entrance seems to have been at
-the Torre de la Plata (silver tower), which was standing as late as
-1821. Finally, among the works of the last Musulman rulers of Seville,
-we must not omit to mention the great aqueduct of four hundred and
-ten arches, called the Caños de Carmona, constructed in 1172, which
-ensured the city an abundant supply of water from the reservoir of
-Alcalá de Guadaira. The Almohades had other palaces in the city. The
-old residence of Abdelasis yet remained, and we hear of the palaces of
-St Hermenegildo and of the Bib Ragel (or northern gate).
-
-The Almohades kinged it nobly in Andalusia; but these successive
-revivals of fervour and activity in Western Islam may be compared to
-the last strong spasms of a dying man. Despite these furious inrushes
-of Almoravides and Al-Muwahedun, the Christians were slowly but surely
-gaining ground. The lieutenants of Abd-ul-Mumin subjugated Granada and
-Almeria in the east, Badajoz and Evora in the west. The Moorish amir
-of Valencia did homage to Yusuf, Abd-ul-Mumin’s son and successor, at
-Ishbiliyah. The third sovereign of the dynasty, Yakub Al Mansûr, dealt
-what seemed a crushing blow to the allied Spaniards at Alarcos in 1195.
-Had that victory been properly followed up, perhaps to this day a
-Mohammedan power might have been seated firmly in the south of Spain,
-and the Strait of Gibraltar might have been a western Dardanelles.
-
-But the Christians rallied. In 1212 was fought the decisive battle
-of Las Navas de Tolosa, between the Moorish Khalif An-Nasr and the
-Castilian King, Alfonso VIII. The Musulmans were totally defeated. “Six
-hundred thousand combatants,” says El Makkari, with perhaps a trace of
-Oriental hyperbole, “were led by An-Nasr to the field of battle; all
-perished, except a few that did not amount to a thousand. This battle
-was a malediction, not only on Andalus but on all the West.”
-
-Yet the downfall of the Islamite power did not immediately follow.
-An-Nasr survived his defeat seven years, and his son, Abu Yusuf Yakub
-Al-Mustanser, reigned four more inglorious years. His dying (1223)
-without children was the signal for dissensions and disturbances
-throughout his still vast empire. While Abd-ul-Wahed was proclaimed
-Khalifa in Morocco, Al Adil took up the reins of sovereignty in Murcia.
-Both pretenders soon disappeared from the troubled scene, Abd-ul-Wahed
-being assassinated, and his rival, after having been defeated in Spain
-by the Christians, being forced to take refuge in Morocco, there to
-abdicate in favour of An-Nasr’s son, Yahya. Abu-l-Ala, Al Adil’s
-brother, who had been left as governor in Ishbiliyah, declared himself
-Khalifa on learning the accession of Yahya. He was the last of the race
-of Abd-ul-Mumin to rule in the city. He was driven from Spain--to found
-a wider empire in Africa--by Mohammed Ben Yusuf, variously styled Ben
-Hud and Al Jodhami.
-
-The storm-clouds were gathering fast over the beautiful city by the
-Guadalquivir. Spain’s great national hero, St Ferdinand, now wore the
-crown of Castile. He routed the Moors at Jerez, and in 1235 wrested
-from them their most ancient and glorious metropolis, Cordova. The
-discord and sedition which history shows are the usual prelude to the
-extinction of a state, were not wanting at Seville. Ben Hud died in
-1238, and his subjects turned once more in their despair to the African
-Almohades. But no new army of Ghazis crossed the strait to do battle
-with the Unbeliever. Despite their protestations of allegiance to the
-Khalifa of Barbary, the Moors of Seville were left to fight their last
-fight unassisted. When the Castilian army appeared before the walls,
-the defence was directed, strangely enough for a Mohammedan community,
-by a junta of six persons. Their names are worthy of being recorded:
-Abu Faris, called by the Spaniards Axataf, Sakkáf, Shoayb, Ben Khaldûn,
-Ben Khiyar, and Abu Bekr Ben Sharih.
-
-The siege of Ishbiliyah lasted fifteen months. Material assistance
-was lent to the Spaniards by Musulman auxiliaries, among them the
-Amirs of Jaën and Granada. The Castilian fleet under Admiral Ramon
-Bonifaz dispersed the Moorish ships, while the Sevillian land forces
-were driven to take refuge within the walls. The Admiral succeeded
-in breaking the chain stretched across the river, and thus cut off
-the garrison from their principal magazines in the suburb of Triana.
-Only when in the clutches of famine did the defenders ask for terms.
-They offered to give up the city, on the condition that they should
-be allowed to demolish the mosque. The Infante Alfonso replied that
-if a single brick were displaced, the whole population would be put
-to the sword. The garrison finally surrendered on the promise that
-all inhabitants who desired to do so should be free to leave the city
-with their families and property, and that those who elected to remain
-should pay the Castilian king the same tribute they had hitherto paid
-to the native ruler. The brave Abu Faris was invited to accept an
-honourable post under the conqueror, but he magnanimously declined and
-retired to Africa. Thither thousands of his countrymen followed him.
-Indeed, probably only a few thousand Moors remained behind in Seville.
-
-Ferdinand took possession on December 22nd, 1248. He took up his
-residence in the Alcazar and allotted houses and territory to his
-officers. It is worthy of remark that the first Christian soldier to
-ascend the Giralda was a Scotsman named Lawrence Poore. Among the first
-duties of the saintly king was the purification of the mosque and its
-conversion into a Christian church.
-
-Seville, after having remained in the hands of the Musulmans five
-hundred and thirty-six years, had passed from them for ever.
-
-
-
-
-SEVILLE UNDER THE CASTILIAN KINGS
-
-
-The outward transformation of the Moorish Ishbiliyah into Seville,
-the Christian capital, proceeded slowly and gradually. The
-personal devotion and profound religious fervour of King Ferdinand
-notwithstanding, even the war which resulted in the taking of the
-city cannot be regarded as a crusade. As we have seen, Mohammedan
-troops fought under the banners of the Christian king and contributed
-to his victory; and in the division of the spoils these allies were
-not forgotten. Satisfied with their triumph, the Castilians showed
-moderation in their treatment of their Muslim subjects. The fall of
-Ishbiliyah was attended by no outburst of iconoclastic fury. The
-conquerors were delighted with the beauty and richness of their prize,
-and had no desire to impair the handiwork of their predecessors.
-
-The transition from the pure Arabic and Almohade styles of architecture
-to what is called the Mudejar style was therefore almost imperceptible.
-The physiognomy of the city altered but slowly. But the alteration was
-from the first inevitable. Houses and lands were bestowed on knights
-from all parts of Spain on the condition of their residing permanently
-in Seville. Catalans, Galicians, Castilians of all trades and ranks
-flocked in, and their influence was bound sooner or later to assert
-itself. But the builders and artisan class remained for many years
-composed of Moors--sometimes Christianised, but thoroughly imbued
-with the artistic traditions of their forebears. Thus came about that
-peculiar and graceful blending of the Moorish and Gothic and earlier
-Renaissance styles known to Spanish writers as the Mudejar. Its
-differentiation from the Arabic naturally became more marked as the
-centuries rolled by.
-
-Moorish architecture was thus accepted by the conquerors of Seville
-both from choice and necessity. But certain important modifications
-in the structure of buildings became immediately necessary, owing to
-the difference of faith and customs. The mosque and the dwelling-house
-alike had to undergo some alteration. No _mihrab_ was required, nor
-minaret, nor the south-easterly position; in the dwelling-house there
-was no need for harem, for retired praying-place, for the baths so dear
-to the Andalusian Muslim.
-
-Probably the first building of importance to be affected by the change
-of rulers was the mosque. The outermost naves were divided into
-chapels, the names and order of which have been preserved for us by
-Zuñiga (quoted by Madrazo).
-
-The royal chapel occupied the centre of the eastern wall; the other
-chapels were: San Pedro, Santiago, Santa Barbara, San Bernardo, San
-Sebastian (in this chapel were buried some Moors of the blood royal who
-had been baptised and had served King Ferdinand, among them being Don
-Fernando Abdelmon, son of Abu Seyt, Amir of Baeza), San Ildefonso, San
-Francisco, San Andrés, San Clemente, San Felipe, San Mateo (containing
-the sepulchre of the Admiral of Castile, Don Juan de Luna), Don Alonso
-Perez de Guzman, San Miguel, San Marcos, San Lucas, San Bernabe, San
-Simon, and San Judas, and the Magdalena. In the last-named chapel were
-buried the knights who had taken part in the capture of the city.
-Attached to it was the altar of Nuestra Señora de Pilar, a reputedly
-miraculous shrine which became the objective of pilgrims in after years.
-
-Chapels were also constructed in the four cloisters of the Patio de
-los Naranjos. The cloister of the Caballeros contained eight--one of
-which, Santa Lucia, was the place of sepulchre of the Haro family; the
-cloister of the Granada contained three; the cloister of San Esteban,
-three; the cloister of San Jorge or Del Lagarto, four--in one of
-which, San Jorge, reposed that doughty warrior, Garci Perez de Vargas,
-who distinguished himself before all his compeers at the assault of
-Seville. This cloister was named Del Lagarto from the remains of an
-enormous crocodile, a present from the Sultan of Egypt to King Alfonso
-el Sabio, which are still suspended from the roof.
-
-The cathedral--for so we must now call the mosque--was endowed and
-richly embellished by St Ferdinand’s son and successor, the bookish
-monarch Alfonso el Sabio. He also bestowed upon Seville its existing
-coat-of-arms, consisting of the device NO8DO, which frequently appears,
-to the bewilderment of strangers, on public buildings, uniforms, and
-documents. The knot is in the vernacular _madeja_; the device thus
-reads _no madeja do_, or, with an excusable pun, _no me ha dejado_--“it
-has not deserted me.” This honourable motto the city won by its loyalty
-to Alfonso during the civil wars which distracted the kingdom during
-his reign. Seville bears the splendid title of “Most noble, most loyal,
-most heroic, and unconquered city” (_muy noble_, _muy leal_, _muy
-heroica_, _y invicta_). The surname “most noble” was bestowed upon it
-by St Ferdinand; the style “most faithful” it received from Juan II. in
-remembrance of its resistance to the Infante Don Enrique; “most heroic”
-from Fernando VII. in recognition of its devotion to the national cause
-during the War of Independence; and “unconquered” from Isabel II. to
-commemorate its defence against the army of Espartero in July 1843.
-
-The successors of the sainted king made their home in the Alcazar, and
-adapted themselves to an environment created by their traditional foes.
-The personality which looms largest in the history of the city is that
-of Don Pedro I., surnamed the Cruel, or, by his few admirers, ‘the
-Justiciary.’ What Harun-al-Rashid is in the story of Bagdad is this
-ferocious monarch in the annals of Seville. Countless are the tales,
-the ballads, and traditions of which he is the subject. Curiously
-enough, Pedro enjoyed a certain measure of popularity in the country
-he misgoverned. He was undoubtedly a vigilant protector of the humbler
-classes of his subjects against the tyranny of the aristocracy, and
-officials, and appears to have combined a grim humour and a strain of
-what we should now call Bohemianism, with a tiger-like ferocity. He was
-fond of rambling _incognito_ through the poorer quarters of the city;
-and no account of Seville can be considered complete without a relation
-of one of his most notable adventures in the street called Calle de la
-Cabeza de Don Pedro.
-
-The king had promulgated a decree holding the municipal authorities
-answerable with their lives for the preservation of peace and public
-order within their jurisdiction. A few nights later, wandering, heavily
-cloaked as we may suppose, through a dark alley, a gentleman brushed
-rudely against him. A brawl ensued, swords were drawn, and Pedro ran
-his subject through the body. Flattering himself that there had been no
-witness to the encounter, he stalked away. In the morning the hidalgo’s
-body was found, but there appeared to be no clue as to the assassin.
-The king summoned the Alcalde and reminded him of the edict. If the
-miscreant were not discovered within two days the luckless magistrate
-must himself pay the penalty on the scaffold. It was a situation with
-precisely the humorous aspect that Pedro relished.
-
-But presently to the Alcalde came an old lady with a strange but
-welcome story. She told how she had seen a fight between two gentlemen,
-the previous night, from her bed-chamber window. She witnessed the
-fatal termination, and lo! the light of her candle fell full on the
-face of the murderer; and as he bent forward, she heard his knee crack.
-By his features and by this well-known physical peculiarity, she
-recognised, beyond all possibility of a mistake, the king.
-
-Next day the Alcalde invited his sovereign to attend the execution of
-the criminal. Greatly wondering, no doubt, Pedro came. Dangling from a
-rope he beheld his own effigy. “It is well,” he said, after an ominous
-pause. “Justice has been done. I am satisfied.”
-
-We may be inclined to disagree with the king’s conception of justice
-as evinced on this occasion. More equitable and humorous was his
-action when a priest, for murdering a shoemaker, was condemned by his
-ecclesiastical superiors to suspension from his sacerdotal functions
-for twelve months. Pedro thereupon decreed that any tradesman who slew
-a priest should be punished by being restrained from exercising his
-trade for the like period!
-
-The catalogue of this Castilian monarch’s crimes proves interesting
-if gloomy reading. He left his wife, Blanche de Bourbon, to perish
-in a dungeon; he married Juana de Castro and insultingly repudiated
-her within forty-eight hours; he put to death his father’s mistress,
-Leonor de Guzman. He threw the young daughter of his brother, Enrique
-de Trastamara, naked to the lions, like some Christian virgin-martyr.
-But the good-humoured (and possibly well-fed) brutes refused to touch
-the proffered prey. Not wishing to be outdone in generosity by a wild
-beast, Pedro ever afterwards treated the maiden kindly. She was known,
-in remembrance of her terrible experience, as Leonor de los Leones.
-
-The Jew, Don Simuel Ben Levi, had served Pedro long and only too
-faithfully as treasurer and tax-gatherer. It was whispered in his
-master’s ear that half the wealth that should fill the royal coffers
-was diverted into his own. Ben Levi was seized without warning and
-placed on the rack, where the noble Israelite is said to have died,
-not of pain, but of pure indignation. Under his house--so the story
-has it--was a cavern filled with three piles of gold and silver so
-high that a man standing behind any one of them was completely hidden.
-“Had Don Simuel given me the third of the least of these three piles,”
-exclaimed the king, “I would not have had him tortured. Why would he
-rather die than speak?”
-
-Somewhat more excusable was the treatment meted out to the Red King
-of Granada, Abu Saïd; for this prince was himself a usurper, and had
-behaved traitorously towards his own sovereign and his suzerain, the
-King of Castile. Fearing Pedro’s resentment, he appeared at his court
-at Seville with a retinue of three hundred, loaded with presents, among
-which was the enormous ruby that now decorates the Crown of England.
-He was received in audience by the Spanish king, whom he begged to
-arbitrate between him and the deposed King of Granada. Pedro returned
-a gracious reply, and entertained the Red King in the Alcazar. Before
-many hours had passed the Moors were seized in their apartments and
-stripped of their raiment and valuables. Abu Saïd, mounted on a donkey
-and ridiculously attired, was taken, with thirty-six of his courtiers,
-to a field outside the town. There they were bound to posts. A train of
-horsemen appeared, Don Pedro among them, and transfixed the helpless
-men with darts, the king shouting as he hurled his missiles at the
-luckless Abu Saïd, “This for the treaty you made me conclude with
-Aragon!” “This for the castle you lost me!” The Moors met their death
-with the stoical resignation of their race.
-
-That atrocities committed against Jews and infidels, against even
-members of the royal family, should be regarded with indifference by
-the public of that day need not surprise us. But the people of Seville
-tamely suffered the most cruel wrongs to be inflicted by the tyrant on
-their own fellow-citizens. After his (or rather the Black Prince’s)
-victory over Don Enrique at Najera (1367), the Admiral Bocanegra and
-Don Juan Ponce de Leon were beheaded on the Plaza San Francisco. Garci
-Jufre Tenorio, the mayor of the city, also suffered death. The property
-of Doña Teresa Jufre was confiscated because she had spoken ill of
-his Majesty. Doña Urraca Osorio, because her son had taken part with
-Don Enrique in the revolt, was burned at the stake on the Alameda.
-Her servant, Leonor Dávalos, threw herself into the flames and shared
-the fate of her mistress. In consequence of this persecution, Seville
-lost several of her most illustrious families, which either became
-extinguished or removed themselves to other parts of Spain.
-
-So much for the picturesque if repugnant personality of Pedro I. With
-his sinister memory the Alcazar is so intimately associated, and the
-part he took in its reconstruction was so conspicuous that this may be
-deemed the proper place to deal with that famous building--one of the
-two most important in Seville.
-
-
-
-
-THE ALCAZAR
-
-
-“The Alcazar,” says Señor Rafaél Contreras, “is not a classic work, nor
-does it present to-day that stamp of originality and that ineffaceable
-character which distinguish ancient works like the Parthenon and modern
-works like the Escorial. In the Alcazar of Yakub Yusuf the influence
-of the heroic generation has faded away, and it portrays instead
-the daily life of our Christian kings who have enriched it with a
-thousand pages of glorious history. The Almohades, who impressed on
-the building their African characteristics in 1181, and Jalubi, who
-had been a follower of Al-Mehdi in the conquest of Africa, left on its
-walls traces of the Roman influences met with in the course of their
-movements. St Ferdinand, who conquered it, Don Pedro I., who restored
-it, Don Juan II., who reconstructed the most elegant apartments,
-the Catholic sovereigns, who built within its precincts chapels and
-oratories, Charles V., who added more than a half in the modified
-style of that epoch of the Renaissance, Philip III. and Philip V., who
-enlarged it still more by building in the adjacent gardens--these,
-and other princes who inhabited it during six centuries, have changed
-the original structure to such an extent that to-day it is far from
-being a monument of oriental art, though we find it covered with fine
-arabesques and embellished with mosaics and gilding.”
-
-Though not a monument of oriental art, the Alcazar seems to us to have
-claims to rank as a specimen of Moorish architecture; for the general
-character of the structure was determined by the restorations effected
-by order of Pedro I., and these were, probably exclusively, the work
-of Moorish artisans, not only of Seville, but from Granada, then a
-Moorish city. This accounts for the resemblance of this palace to the
-more famous Alhambra. But the Alcazar is not to be dismissed as a mere
-pseudo-Moorish palace. It remains, to a great extent, the work of
-Moorish hands and the conception of Moorish architects.
-
-In spite of the severe strictures of fastidious observers, the Alcazar
-produces a very pleasing impression on northern visitors. Mr W. M.
-Gallichan writes: “It is a palace of dreams, encircled by lovely
-perfumed gardens. Its courts and salons are redolent of Moorish
-days and haunted by the spirits of turbaned sheiks, philosophers,
-minstrels, and dark-eyed beauties of the harem.... The nightingales
-still sing among the odorous orange bloom, and in the tangles of roses
-birds still build their nests. Fountains tinkle beneath gently moving
-palms; the savour of orientalism clings to the spot. Here wise men
-discussed in the cool of summer nights, when the moon stood high over
-the Giralda and white beams fell through the spreading boughs of the
-lemon trees, and shivered upon the tiled pavements.
-
-“In this garden the musicians played and the tawny dancers writhed and
-curved their lissome bodies, in dramatic Eastern dances. _Ichabod!_ The
-moody potentate, bowed down with the cares of high office, no longer
-treads the dim corridor or lingers in the shade of the palm trees, lost
-in cogitation. No sound of gaiety reverberates in the deserted courts;
-no voice of orator is heard in the Hall of Justice. The green lizards
-bask on the deserted benches of the gardens. Rose petals strew the
-paved paths. One’s footsteps echo in the gorgeous _patios_, whose walls
-have witnessed many a scene of pomp, tragedy, and pathos. The spell of
-the past holds one; and before the imagination troops a long procession
-of illustrious sovereigns, courtiers, counsellors, and menials.”
-
-The Alcazar, as we have said, at the time of the reconquest covered a
-much larger space than at present; and its area was even greater in
-the days of Pedro I. Its strength as a fortress may be gauged by a
-glance at the remaining walls, adjacent to the principal entrance. In
-the Plaza de Santo Tomas is an octagonal, one-storeyed tower, called
-the Torre de Abdalasis, which once formed part of the building, and is
-said to have been the spot on which St Ferdinand hoisted his flag on
-the fall of Seville. To enter the palace we pass across the Plaza del
-Triunfo and enter the Patio de las Banderas, so called either because
-a flag was hoisted here when the royal family were in residence or on
-account of the trophy displayed over one of the arches, composed of
-the Arms of Spain with supporting flags. From this court a colonnade
-called the Apeadero leads to the Patio de la Monteria. It was built,
-as an inscription over the portal records, by Philip III. in 1607,
-and restored and devoted to the purposes of an armoury by the fifth
-sovereign of that name in 1729. The Patio de la Monteria derives its
-name from the Royal Lifeguards, the Monteros de Espinosa, having their
-quarters here. These courts, with the commonplace private houses
-which surround them, occupy the site of the old Moorish palace of
-the Almohades. Some of the houses exhibit vestiges of fine Musulman
-work. The house No. 3 of the Patio de las Banderas formed part, in the
-opinion of Gestoso y Perez, of the Stucco Palace (Palacio del Yeso)
-mentioned by Ayala as having been built by Pedro I. That potentate, it
-is worthy of remark, was accustomed to administer justice, tempered
-with ferocity, after the oriental fashion, seated on a stone bench in
-a corner of this _patio_. The room in which the Almohade governors
-presided over their tribunals still exists. It is surrounded by houses,
-and is entered from the Patio de la Monteria. Contreras sees in this
-hall (the Sala de Justicia) the traces of a work anterior to the
-ninth century. It was, however, restored by Pedro. It is square, and
-measures nine metres across. The ceiling is of stucco and adorned with
-stars, wreaths, and a painted frieze. Inscriptions in beautiful Cufic
-characters constitute the principal decoration of the apartment. Round
-the four walls runs a tastefully worked stucco frieze, interrupted
-by several right-angled apertures. These were once covered, in the
-opinion of Herr Schmidt, by screens of plaster, which kept out the
-sun’s heat but admitted the light; or, according to Gestoso y Perez, by
-tapestries “which must have made the hall appear a miracle of wealth
-and splendour.” Thanks to its isolation, the Sala de Justicia escaped
-the “restoration” effected in the middle of the nineteenth century by
-order of the Duc de Montpensier.
-
-It was in this hall (often overlooked by visitors) that Don Pedro
-overheard four judges discussing the division of a bribe they had
-received. They were beheaded on the spot, and their skulls are still to
-be seen in the walls of the king’s bed-chamber.
-
-From the Patio de la Monteria we pass into the Patio del Leon. In the
-fifteenth century, we read, tournaments were often held here. Our
-attention is at once directed to the superb façade of the main building
-or Alcazar proper--the palace of Don Pedro. It is a splendid work of
-art. The columns are of rare marble with elegant Moorish capitals. The
-portal is imposing, and was rebuilt by Don Pedro, as the legend in
-curious Gothic characters informs us: ‘The most high, the most noble,
-the most powerful, and most victorious Don Pedro, King of Castile and
-Leon, commanded these palaces, these alcazares, and these entrances
-to be made in the year [of Cæsar] one thousand four hundred and two”
-(1364). Elsewhere on the façade are the oft-repeated inscriptions in
-Cufic characters: “There is no conqueror but Allah,” “Glory to our
-lord, the Sultan,” “Eternal glory to Allah,” “Eternal is the dominion
-of Allah,” etc.
-
-This gate, in the opinion of Contreras, is of Arabic origin and in the
-Persian style, after which were built most of the entrances to mosques
-of the first period. The square opening is often seen in Egypt, and
-supplanted the more graceful horse-shoe arch. The pilasters are Arabic
-throughout; but the arch balconies, the Byzantine columns, and Roman
-capitals are works of Don Pedro’s time.
-
-The palace of the Alcazar forms an irregular oblong. The Patio de las
-Doncellas or Patio Principal occupies the centre, roughly speaking,
-and upon it open the various halls and chambers according to the
-usual Moorish plan. This _patio_ is absurdly named from its being the
-supposed place in which were collected the hundred damsels said to
-have been sent by way of annual tribute by Mauregato to the Moors. It
-is hardly necessary to say that the damsels would have been sent to
-Cordova, which was the capital of the Khalifate, not to Seville, and
-that this court was among the restorations of the fourteenth century.
-
-The court is rectangular, and surrounded by a gallery composed of white
-marble columns in pairs, supporting pointed arches. The soffite (or
-inner side) of the arch is scalloped or serrated. The central arch
-in each side is higher and larger than its fellows, and springs from
-square imposts resting on the twin columns. At each angle of the impost
-is a graceful little pillar--“a characteristic,” observes Madrazo,
-“of the Arabic-Grenadine architecture, such as may often be noticed
-in the magnificent Alhambra of the Alhamares.” Over the arches runs a
-flowing scroll with Arabic inscriptions, among them being “Glory to
-our lord the Sultan Don Pedro; may God lend him His aid and render him
-victorious”, and this very remarkable text, “There is but one God;
-He is eternal. He was not begotten and does not beget, and He has no
-equal.” This is evidently an inscription remaining from Musulman days,
-and spared in their ignorance by the Christian owners of the palace.
-On the frieze will also be noticed the escutcheons of Don Pedro and
-the Catholic sovereigns, and the favourite devices of Charles V.--the
-Pillars of Hercules and motto “Plus Oultre.” Behind the central arches
-are as many doors with elaborately ornamented arches. On either side of
-each door is a double window, framed with broad, ornamental bands, with
-conventional floral designs. Round the inner walls of the arcade runs a
-high dado of glazed tile mosaic (_azulejo_), brilliantly coloured and
-cut with exquisite skill. The combinations and variations of the design
-repay examination, and will be seen to extend all round the gallery.
-This decoration was probably executed by Moorish workmen in the time
-of Pedro I. Finally, above the doors run wide friezes with shuttered
-windows, through which the light falls on the gleaming mosaic. The
-ceiling of the gallery dates from the time of Ferdinand and Isabella,
-but was restored in 1856.
-
-Three recesses in the _patio_ are pointed out as the spots where Don
-Pedro held his audiences; but Contreras is of opinion that they are the
-walled-up entrances to former corridors which communicated with the
-Harem. That apartment probably faced the Salón de los Embajadores.
-
-A wide cornice separates the lower part of the court from the upper
-gallery. This is composed of balustrades, arches, and columns in
-white marble of the Ionic order, and was the work of Don Luis de Vega
-(sixteenth century).
-
-One of the doors opening on to the Patio de las Doncellas gives
-access to the Salón de los Embajadores (Hall of the Ambassadors), the
-finest apartment in the Alcazar. Its dazzling splendour is produced
-by the blending of five distinct styles, the Arabic, Almohade or
-true Moorish, Gothic, Grenadine or late Moorish, and Renaissance.
-Measuring about thirty-three feet square, it has four entrances, of
-which that giving on to the Patio de las Doncellas may be considered
-the principal. Here we find folding-doors in the Arabic style of
-extraordinary size and beauty. Each wing is 5.30 metres high by
-1.97 broad, and adorned with painted inlaid work, varied by Arabic
-inscriptions. One of these latter is of great interest. It runs as
-follows: “Our Lord and Sultan, the exalted and high Don Pedro, King of
-Castile and Leon (may Allah prosper him and his architect), ordered
-these doors of carved wood to be made for this apartment (in honour
-of the noble and fortunate ambassadors), which is a source of joy
-to the happy city, in which the palaces, the alcazares, and these
-mansions for my Lord and Master were built, who only showed forth his
-splendour. The pious and generous Sultan ordered this to be done in the
-city of Seville with the aid of his intercessor [Saint Peter?] with
-God. Joy shone in their delightful construction and embellishment.
-Artificers from Toledo were employed in the work; and this took place
-in the fortunate year 1404 [1364 A.D.]. Like the evening twilight and
-the refulgence of the twilight of the aurora is this work. A throne
-resplendent in brilliant colours and eminence. Praise be to Allah!”
-
-The three remaining portals present graceful round arches, enclosing
-three lesser arches (forming the actual entrances) of the horse-shoe
-type. These last are believed, as we have said elsewhere, to be of
-Abbadite origin. The capitals of their supporting columns are fine
-examples of the Arab-Byzantine style. Above the horse-shoe arches, and
-comprised within the outer arch, are three lattices. The whole space
-within the arch is covered with delicate filigree work.
-
-This hall was once known as the Salón de la Media Naranja (Hall of the
-Half Orange) from the elegant shaping of its carved wooden ceiling.
-This rests upon a frieze decorated with the Tower and Lion, and
-supporting this again are beautiful carved and gilded stalactites or
-pendants. On the intervening wall spaces are Cufic inscriptions on a
-blue ground, and female heads painted by sixteenth-century vandals.
-Then follows another frieze with the devices of Castile and Leon, below
-which is a row of fifty-six niches, containing the portraits of the
-kings of Spain from Receswinto the Goth to Philip III. The earliest of
-these seem to have been painted in the sixteenth century, while the
-little columns and trefoil windows that separate them may be ascribed
-to the end of the fourteenth. The series is interrupted by four
-rectangular spaces, formerly occupied by windows, but now taken up by
-elegant balconies in wrought iron, the work of Francisco López (1592).
-The decoration of this magnificent chamber is completed by a high dado
-of white, blue, and green glazed tiles. It was probably in this hall
-that Abu Saïd, “the Red King,” was received by Don Pedro prior to his
-murder.
-
-In an apartment to the right of the Ambassadors’ Hall, a plaster frieze
-of Arabic origin, showing figures in silhouette, may be noticed; and
-in a room to the left, other silhouettes, apparently referring to the
-qualities attributed by his admirers to Pedro I.
-
-On the north side of the Patio de las Doncellas lies the so-called
-Dormitorio de los Reyes Moros (Bed-chamber of the Moorish Kings). The
-entrance arch is semicircular, and includes three graceful lattice
-windows, richly ornamented. On either side of the door is a beautiful
-double-window with columns dating from the Khalifate. The doors
-themselves are richly inlaid, and painted with geometrical patterns.
-The interior of the chamber is adorned, like all other apartments
-in the Alcazar, with plaster friezes, and is so richly decorated
-that scarcely a hand’s-breadth (remarks Herr Schmidt) is without
-ornamentation. To the right of the entrance lies a small apartment
-known as the Sultan’s Alcove. Opposite the entrance from the _patio_
-are three horse-shoe arches belonging to the earliest period of
-Spanish-Arabic art, leading to an _Al-Hami_ or alcove.
-
-From the Dormitorio we may pass into the quaintly named Patio de las
-Muñecas, or Puppet’s Court. It is a spot with tragical associations,
-for here took place the murder of the Master of Santiago, Don Fadrique
-de Trastamara, by his brother, Don Pedro--a fratricide to be avenged
-years after by another fratricide at Montiel. The Master, after a
-campaign in Murcia, had been graciously received by the king, and
-went to pay his respects to the lovely Maria de Padilla in another
-part of the palace. It is said that she warned him of his impending
-fate; perhaps her manner, if not her words, should have aroused him to
-a sense of his danger; but the soldier prince returned to the royal
-presence. “Kill the Master of Santiago!” Pedro shouted, so the story
-goes. The Master’s sword was entangled in his scarf; he was separated
-from his retinue. He fled to this court, where he was struck down. One
-of his retainers took refuge in Maria de Padilla’s apartment, where he
-tried to screen himself by holding the king’s daughter, Doña Beatriz,
-before his breast. Pedro tore the child away, and despatched the
-unfortunate man with his own hand.
-
-The Patio de las Muñecas is in the Grenadine style. It has suffered
-severely at the hands of the restorers of 1833 and 1843. The arches
-are semicircular and spring from brick pillars, which are supported by
-marble columns with rich capitals. The arches, which form an arcade
-round the court, are decorated with fine mosaic and trellis (_ajaraca_)
-work. The whole is tastefully painted. The arches vary in size, that
-looking towards the Ambassadors’ Hall being almost pear-shaped. The
-columns are of different colours, and the pillars they uphold are
-inscribed with Cufic characters. The upper part of the _patio_ reveals
-a not very skilful attempt to imitate the lower.
-
-“The Ambassadors’ Hall as well as the Puppet’s Court,” says Pedro
-de Madrazo, “are surrounded by elegant saloons, commencing at the
-principal façade of the Alcazar, running round the north-west angle of
-the building, adjoining the galleries of the gardens del Principe, de
-la Gruta, and de la Danza, and terminating at the south-eastern angle
-of the Patio de las Doncellas. Here is now the chapel, and there it
-is believed that the luxurious apartment of the Caracol (inhabited
-by Maria de Padilla) stood. This part was, without doubt, that which
-was called the Palacio del Yeso, or Stucco Palace, on account of the
-plaster decorations in the fashion of Granada; but in which of these
-rooms Don Pedro was playing draughts when the Master of Santiago
-appeared before him, it is impossible to say with certainty.”
-
-The Salón del Principe occupies the upper floor of the chief façade,
-and receives light through the beautiful _ajimices_ or twin-windows
-so noticeable from without. This spacious hall is divided into three
-compartments, each of which has a fine ceiling. Two have been restored,
-but the third was the work of Juan de Simancas in the year 1543. The
-scheme of decoration is Moorish. The columns in this hall and the
-adjoinng apartments are of marble, with rich capitals. According to
-Zurita (quoted by Madrazo), these columns came from the royal palace at
-Valencia, after the defeat of Pedro of Aragon by the King of Castile.
-
-The oratory was built by order of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1504. It
-contains an admirable retablo in blue glazed tiles--probably the finest
-work of the kind in Spain--designed by an Italian, Francesco Niculoso.
-The centre-piece represents the Visitation. It is believed that some
-parts of the work were drawn by Pedro Millán, a sculptor of Seville.
-
-The oratory is on the upper floor of the palace. On the same storey
-is the Comedor, or dining-hall, a long, narrow room with a fine
-fifteenth-century ceiling, and good tapestries on the walls. A more
-interesting apartment is the bed-chamber of Don Pedro, which has a good
-carved roof and dados of _azulejos_ and stucco. Over the door four
-heads may be seen painted. They represent the skulls of the corrupt
-judges on whom the unjust king executed summary justice. The decoration
-of this chamber is of the sixteenth century.
-
-The royal apartments on this floor contain several important works
-of art. In the room of the Infantes is a portrait of Maria Luisa by
-Goya. The Salón Azul (Blue Room), so-called from the colour of its
-tapestries, contains some fine pastel paintings by Muraton, and some
-notable miniatures on ivory. The portraits of the family of Isabel II.
-by Bartolomé López are worthy of inspection.
-
-Returning to the ground floor, we enter the spacious Salón de Carlos
-V., occupying one side of the Patio de las Doncellas. Here, it is
-asserted, St Ferdinand died; but it is more probable that he expired
-in the old Moorish Alcazar. The fine ceiling, decorated with the heads
-of warriors and ladies, was built by the Emperor after whom the hall is
-named. The stucco and the work are very beautiful.
-
-An uninteresting apartment was erected by Ferdinand VI. over the famous
-Baths of Maria de Padilla, which are approached through an arched
-entrance, and, surrounded by thick walls, have more the appearance
-of a dungeon than of a resort of Love and Beauty. The pool still
-remains where the lovely favourite bathed her fair limbs. In her time
-it had no other roof than the blue sky of Andalusia, and no further
-protection from prying eyes than that afforded by the orange and
-lemon trees. At Pedro’s court it was esteemed a mark of gallantry and
-loyalty to drink the waters of the bath, after Maria had performed her
-ablutions. Observing that one of his knights refrained from this act
-of homage, the king questioned him and elicited the reply, “I dare not
-drink of the water, lest, having tasted the sauce, I should covet the
-partridge.” These baths were no doubt used by the ladies of the harem
-in Moorish days.
-
-The gardens of the Alcazar form a delicious pleasaunce, where the
-orange and the citron diffuse their fragrance, and fairy-like fountains
-spring up suddenly beneath the unwary passenger’s feet, sprinkling him
-with a cooling and perhaps not unwelcome dew. But this paradise has its
-serpent, and that is the truculent shade of the cruel king, which for
-ever seems to haunt the Alcazar. Here Pedro prowled one day, when four
-candidates for the office of judge presented themselves before him. To
-test their fitness for the post, the king pointed to an orange floating
-on the surface of a pool close by. He asked each of the lawyers in
-succession what the floating object was. The three first replied
-without consideration, “An orange, sire.” But the fourth drew the fruit
-from the water with his staff, glanced at it, and replied with absolute
-accuracy, “_Half_ an orange, sire.” He was appointed to the vacant
-magistracy.
-
-Before leaving the Alcazar, we will briefly summarise the history of
-its transformations and reconstructions. As we have seen, the palace
-generally may be considered the work of Don Pedro. In the reign of Juan
-II., the Salón de los Embajadores was enriched with its fine cupola. A
-tablet, discovered in 1843, testifies that the architect was Don Diego
-Roiz, and that the artisans employed in the work were made freemen of
-the city.
-
-Various parts of the building were built or reconstructed by order
-of Ferdinand and Isabella. The architects were for the most part
-Christianised Moors, among whom are mentioned Maestre Mohammed Agudo
-(1479), Juan Fernandez (1479), Diego Fernandez (1496), and Francisco
-Fernandez. The latter was appointed Master of the Alcazar in 1502,
-and previous to his adoption of Catholicism was named Hamet Kubeji.
-According to Gestoso y Perez, a surprising number of artificers and
-craftsmen were engaged about the Alcazar at this time, a powerful
-inducement being exemption from taxes and military service. The names
-of Juan and Francisco de Limpias (1479-1540) have been preserved among
-the carpenters; and Diego Sanchez (1437), Alfonso Ruiz (1479), and the
-two Sanchez de Castro (1500), among the painters.
-
-Several improvements were carried out under Charles V. and Philip II.,
-and a great deal of restoration was unfortunately necessitated by
-the fires which seemed to break out with increasing frequency during
-the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Still more disastrous was
-the effect of the great earthquake of 1755. Then began the reign of
-the vandal, which did more damage to the palace than time, fire, and
-earthquake combined.
-
-In 1762, the minister Wall ordered the Alcazar to be repaired in
-“the modern manner.” The ceilings which had been destroyed by fire
-were replaced by others much too low, and valuable arabesques were
-recklessly sacrificed. In 1805, some director with a genius for
-transmogrification whitewashed the fine stucco work in the Salon del
-Principe, and altered the main entrance. He also substituted a plaster
-ceiling for the bowl-shaped Arab roofing, and made strenuous efforts
-to impair the beauty of the Ambassadors’ Hall. In 1833 a reaction took
-place. Don Joaquin Cortes and Señor Raso effected an artistic and
-sympathetic restoration both of the Prince’s Hall and the Patio de las
-Muñecas. A more serious restoration was begun in 1842, at the instance
-of the administrator, Don Domingo de Alcega. The artist Becquer
-contributed materially to the success of the work. In the ’fifties, the
-task of replacing and restoring the stucco ornamentation was completed;
-and under Isabel II. the thirty-six arches of the Patio de las
-Doncellas were restored. Since that date the reconstructions have not
-always displayed good taste; but the revival of interest in her ancient
-monuments which has taken place in Spain of late years encourages us
-to hope, at least, that the appalling blunders of the early nineteenth
-century will never be repeated.
-
-After the Alcazar, the most noteworthy monument in Seville, dating
-from the reign of Don Pedro, is the church of Omnium Sanctorum. This
-edifice occupies the site of a Roman temple, and was built by the Cruel
-King in 1356. It exhibits a very happy combination of the Moorish and
-Gothic styles. It is entered by three ogival doors, and is divided
-into three naves. To the left of the façade is a graceful tower, the
-first storey of which is Moorish, ornamented somewhat after the style
-of the Giralda. On one of the doors is a shield bearing the arms of
-Portugal, which, tradition says, commemorates the pious generosity of
-Diniz, king of that country, when he visited Alfonso the Wise. If the
-Sevillians have writ their annals true, this goes to prove that an
-earlier structure than the present must have existed here. This, by the
-way, was the parish church of Rioja the poet.
-
-San Lorenzo exhibits the fusion of the contending styles in an
-interesting fashion. It has five naves; and the horseshoe windows in
-its tower were converted into ogives at the time of its adaptation to
-the Christian cult. The arcades of the naves are ogival in the middle,
-and become by degrees semi-circular towards the extremities as the roof
-becomes lower. This church contains the miraculous picture of Nuestra
-Señora de Rocamadour. Rocamadour, in southern France, was a celebrated
-shrine of pilgrims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
-
-Several other churches in Seville date from this epoch, and present, to
-a greater or less extent, evidences of the conflict between the Moorish
-and Gothic styles. In addition to those mentioned, Madrazo names the
-following: Santa Marina, San Ildefonso, San Vicente, San Julián, San
-Esteban, Santa Catalina, San Andrés, San Miguel, San Nicolas, San
-Martin, San Gil, Santa Lucia, San Pedro, and San Isidoro. When a mosque
-was converted into a Christian church, the same authority remarks, the
-horseshoe arch was pointed, bells were placed in the minaret, and the
-orientation was altered from north to south, to east to west. The five
-last-named churches were erected in the thirteenth century. Santa Maria
-de las Nieves was, until the year 1391, a synagogue. The decoration is
-in the plateresco style, and the doors are Gothic. The church contains
-a painting by Luis de Vargas, and a picture attributed to Murillo.
-
-Nearly in the centre of the city is the Convent of Santa Inés, with a
-beautiful and tastefully restored chapel. The façade is ancient and
-graceful. This church contains the remains (said to be uncorrupted) of
-the foundress, Doña Maria Coronel, one of Don Pedro’s numerous victims.
-That monarch had conceived a violent passion for her, in the hopes of
-gratifying which he put her husband to death in the Torre del Oro. The
-widow, far from yielding to his solicitations, took the veil, and at
-last, to secure herself from his persecutions, destroyed her beauty
-by means of vitriol--a species of self-immolation much applauded by
-the devout in the ages of faith. Her sister, Doña Aldonza, was less
-successful in resisting the ardent monarch, but died, in the odour of
-sanctity, Abbess of Santa Inés.
-
-Among the secular buildings erected under the Castilian _régime_ was
-the existing Tower of Don Fadrique, standing in the gardens of the
-Convent of the Poor Clares. It was named after the son of St Ferdinand
-and Beatriz of Swabia, who was put to death by Alfonso el Sabio in
-1276. The tower is a fine square structure of Roman workmanship,
-seemingly, in its lowest floor, and showing a mixture of Moorish and
-Gothic architecture in its upper half. It formed part of a sumptuous
-palace erected in 1252, and bestowed in 1289 on the Poor Clares by King
-Sancho the Brave.
-
-In the Calle Guzman el Bueno is a mansion called the Casa Olea. It
-contains a fine hall, 8½ metres square, the work of Moorish artisans
-of the time of Don Pedro. The beautiful inlaid and gilded _artesonado_
-ceiling was removed about a century ago; light is admitted through
-windows of the horseshoe pattern, and the decorations consist of the
-characteristic stucco-work, latticing, and _ajaraca_ or trellis-work,
-as fine as any to be seen at the Lindaraja of Granada. The dado of
-coloured tiles has almost completely disappeared. The Palacio de
-Montijo, near the church of Omnium Sanctorum, reveals many traces of
-Mudejar workmanship, as also does a hall in the _Casa morisca_ of
-the Calle de Abades--not to be confounded with the Casa de Abades,
-belonging to the Renaissance.
-
-Seville in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries possessed no doubt
-many palaces and private dwellings of magnificence; but it was in
-ecclesiastical architecture that the spirit of the age found its truest
-expression and noblest monuments.
-
-
-
-
-THE CATHEDRAL
-
-
-On the eighth day of July in the year 1401, the Dean and Chapter of
-Seville assembled in the Court of the Elms, and solemnly resolved that,
-the Cathedral having been practically ruined by recent earthquakes,
-a new one should be built so splendid that it should have no equal;
-and that, if the revenue of the See should not prove sufficient for
-the cost of the undertaking, each one present should contribute from
-his own stipend as much as might be necessary. Then uprose a zealous
-prebendary, and cried, “Let us build a church so great that those who
-come after us may think us mad to have attempted it!”
-
-Such was the greatness of spirit in which the foundation of the
-existing Cathedral of Seville was undertaken. And the result is worthy
-of the deep and fervid zeal of those old Catholics of Spain.
-
-The church took one hundred and twenty years to build. Pity it was that
-the noble-hearted priests who decreed the raising of the fane should
-never have gazed upon much more than its skeleton! First of all, the
-mosque-cathedral of Yakub was demolished, only the Giralda and the
-_Patio de los Naranjos_, with the northern, eastern, and western gates,
-being spared. The Royal Chapel was pulled down in 1432, by permission
-of Juan II. The first stone had been laid in 1402; but, strangely
-and sadly enough, the name of the architect who traced the plan has
-not been preserved. Some believe him to have been Alonso Martinez;
-others, Pero García. Fame, we may well believe, was a prize which the
-pious builder esteemed but lightly. His reward lay in the greater
-glorification of his faith.
-
-In 1462, we find Juan Normán directing the works; in 1488, he had
-passed from the scene and was succeeded by Juan de Hoz. Then came
-Alonso Ruiz and Alonso Rodriguez. The building was practically finished
-when, in 1511, the cupola collapsed. In 1519, Juan Gil de Hontañon,
-the architect of Salamanca Cathedral, completed the reconstruction,
-and the cathedral may be considered as having been finished, though
-restorations and remodelling of various parts of the edifice have been
-going on ever since, and masons are to this day engaged upon the dome.
-
-This magnificent church is pre-eminent for size among the cathedrals
-of Spain, and ranks third in this respect among the sacred edifices
-of the world. St Peter’s covers 230,000 square feet, the Mezquita at
-Cordova 160,000, and the Cathedral of Seville 125,000. Our St Paul’s
-covers only 84,000 square feet. It follows that this cathedral is the
-largest of Gothic temples.
-
-So stupendous a monument has naturally attracted comment from
-distinguished travellers and critics. All have come under the spell of
-its majesty and massive nobility. Théophile Gautier expressed himself
-as follows: “The most extravagant and most monstrously prodigious
-Hindoo pagodas are not to be mentioned in the same century as the
-Cathedral of Seville. It is a mountain scooped out, a valley turned
-topsy-turvy; Notre Dame de Paris might walk erect in the middle nave,
-which is of frightful height; pillars with the girth of towers, and
-which appear so slender that they make you shudder, rise out of the
-ground or descend from the vaulted roof, like stalactites in a giant’s
-grotto.”
-
-The Italian, De Amicis, is less fantastical in his rhapsodies. “At your
-first entrance, you are bewildered, you feel as if you are wandering in
-an abyss, and for several moments you can only glance around in this
-vast spaciousness, to assure yourself that your eyes do not deceive
-you, that your fancy is playing you no trick; you approach one of the
-pillars, measure it, and look at those in the distance; though large as
-towers, they appear so slender that you tremble to think the building
-is resting upon them. You traverse them with a glance from floor to
-ceiling, and it seems that you could almost count the moments it would
-take for the eye to climb them.... In the central aisle, another
-cathedral, with its cupola and bell-tower, could easily stand.”
-
-Lomas, who is no great admirer of the building, admits that “the first
-view of the interior is one of the supreme moments of a lifetime. The
-glory and majesty of it are almost terrible. No other building, surely,
-is so fortunate as this in what may be called its presence.”
-
-The Cathedral is oblong in shape, and is 414 feet long by 271 feet
-wide. The nave is 100 feet and the dome 121 feet high.
-
-The principal façade looks west. Here is the principal entrance (Puerta
-Mayor), and two side doors, the Puertas de San Miguel and del Bautismo.
-Over the central door is a fine relief, representing the Assumption,
-by Ricardo Bellver, placed here in 1885. This entrance is elaborately
-decorated, and adorned with thirty-two statues in niches.
-
-The Puertas San Miguel and del Bautismo are decorated with
-terra-cotta statues of saints and prelates, the work of Pedro Millan,
-a fifteenth-century sculptor. Herr Schmidt thinks very highly of these
-fine performances. Each figure has life and distinct personality, and
-the treatment of the drapery harmonises wonderfully with the gestures
-and physiognomy of the wearers. The upper part of the façade is poor,
-and dates only from 1827.
-
-The southern façade is flanked by sacristies, offices, and courts,
-above which appear the graceful flying buttresses, gargoyles, and
-windows, and the majestic dome of the main building. In the middle of
-this side is a modern entrance, the Puerta de San Cristóbal, added by
-Casanova in 1887. In the eastern façade are two entrances--the Puertas
-de las Campanillas and de los Palos--both enriched with fine sculpture
-by Pedro Millan; the Puerta de los Palos has also a fine Adoration of
-the Magi by Miguel Florentin (1520).
-
-On the northern side of the Cathedral we find the most important
-remains of the pre-existing mosque, the Giralda, already described,
-and the _Patio de los Naranjos_, with the original fountain at which
-the Muslims performed their ablutions. The _patio_ is entered from the
-street by the Puerta del Perdón, a richly decorated horseshoe arch
-erected by Moorish hands by order of Alfonso XI., to commemorate the
-victory of the Salado in the year 1340. In the sixteenth century this
-door was restored and adorned with sculptures. The colossal statues
-of Saints Peter and Paul, in terra-cotta, are the work of Miguel
-Florentin. He was among the earliest of the Renaissance sculptors
-to settle in Spain. By him also is the relief of the Expulsion of
-the Money-Changers from the Temple, celebrating the substitution of
-the Lonja or Bourse for this gate as a rendezvous for merchants. The
-plateresco work was executed by Bartolomé López in 1522. The doors date
-from Alfonso’s reign, and are faced with bronze plates, on which are
-Arabic inscriptions.
-
-Close to the Puerta del Perdón is a shrine built in the wall with a
-Christ on the Cross by Luis de Vargas.
-
-Entering the _patio_, to the right we find the Sagrario, or parish
-church, and to the left (reached by a staircase) the Biblioteca
-Colombina or Chapter Library, founded by Fernando Colon, son of
-Christopher Columbus. Among the treasures it contains are a manuscript
-of the great discoverer’s travels, with notes in his own hand; a
-manuscript tract, written by him in prison, to prove that the existence
-of America was not contrary to Scripture; the sword of Garcia Perez
-de Vargas, the great hero of the conquest of Seville, and a very
-interesting thirteenth-century translation of the Bible.
-
-The northern façade of the Cathedral is entered through three portals,
-the westernmost of which, the Puerta del Sagrario, is unfinished.
-The Puerta de los Naranjos and the Puerta del Lagarto lead from the
-_patio_. The Puerta del Lagarto retains some traces of its Moorish
-origin. It is named after the patched and painted stuffed alligator,
-which has hung here since about the thirteenth century. Here may also
-be seen a huge elephant’s tusk, and a bridle said to have belonged to
-the Cid.
-
-Referring more particularly to the exterior of the Cathedral, Caveda
-says: “The general effect is truly majestic. The open-work parapets
-which crown the roofs, the graceful lanterns of the eight winding
-stairs that ascend in the corners to the vaults and galleries, the
-flying buttresses that spring lightly from aisle to nave, as the jets
-of a cascade from cliff to cliff, the slender pinnacles that cap them,
-the proportions of the arms of the transept and of the buttresses
-supporting the side walls, the large pointed windows that open, one
-above another, just as the aisles and chapels to which they belong
-rise over each other, the pointed portals and entrances--all these
-combine in an almost miraculous manner, although lacking the wealth of
-detail, the airy grace, and the delicate elegance that characterise the
-cathedrals of Léon and Burgos.”
-
-Entering the church, the gloom renders it difficult for a time to
-distinguish its exact configuration. We find it is divided into a
-nave and four aisles, the former being fifty feet in width. The fine
-marble floor was laid in the years 1787 to 1795. There is little
-ornamentation, the interior displaying a noble simplicity, the
-beautiful effect being produced mainly by the grandeur and symmetry
-of the vaultings, archings, and pillars. The seventy-four exquisite
-stained-glass windows, however, form a decorative series of the richest
-kind. They are, for the most part, the work of northern artists. Micer
-Cristóbal Aleman (Master Christoph the German) began the first--the
-first stained-glass window seen in Seville--in 1504, the work being
-carried on by the German Heinrich, the Flemings Bernardino of Zeeland
-and Juan Bernardino, Carlos of Bruges, and the great master Arnao of
-Flanders. The two latter designers are said to have received ninety
-thousand ducats for their work. The last window was completed in 1662
-by a Spaniard named Juan Bautista de Léon. The finest windows are
-generally considered to be those representing the Ascension, St Mary
-Magdalen, Lazarus, and the Entry into Jerusalem, by Arnao the Fleming
-and his brother (1525), and the Resurrection, by Carlos of Bruges
-(1558).
-
-Passing up the nave, from the Puerta Mayor, we find midway between that
-entrance and the choir the Tomb of Fernando Colon, son of the great
-Columbus--“who would have been considered a great man,” says Ford, “had
-he been the son of a less great father.” The slab is engraved with
-pictures of the discoverer’s vessels, and the inscription, _À Castilla
-y á León Mundo nuevo dio Colon_. At this spot, during Holy Week, is set
-up the _Monumento_, an enormous wooden temple in the shape of a Greek
-cross, in which the Sacrament is enshrined. The structure was made by
-Antonio Florentin in 1544.
-
-Extending to the middle of the nave is the Coro or Choir, open towards
-the east or High Altar. The _trascoro_ or choir-screen is faced with
-marbles, eight columns of red _breccia_ being especially fine. The
-marble reliefs are fine examples of Genoese work. Over the altar is a
-fourteenth-century painting of the Madonna, and there is also a picture
-by Pacheco, the inquisitor, representing St Ferdinand receiving the
-keys of Seville from “Axataf.” The side walls of the choir accommodate
-four little chapels, exhibiting a harmonious combination of the Gothic
-and plateresco styles in translucent alabaster. The Capilla de la
-Concepcion contains one of the finest examples of statuary in the
-Cathedral--the Virgin, by Juan Martinez Montañez. Ford says, “This
-sweet and dignified model was the favourite of his great pupil, Alonso
-Cano.” The choir was severely injured by the collapse of the dome
-in 1888. The pillars and baldachino are richly adorned with Gothic
-figures and stonework. The fine gilt railing is the work of Sancho
-Muñoz (1519). But the chief glory of the choir is its exquisitely
-carved stalls, 117 in number, executed between 1475 and 1548, by Nufro
-Sanchez, Dancart, and Guillen. Moorish influence may be traced in the
-patterns and the coloured inlaid work of the chairbacks. The handsome
-lectern bespeaks the skill of Bartolomé Morel. Till the collapse of the
-dome, the choir was the repository of a number of priceless missals,
-illuminated in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
-The organs are huge but inartistic. As instruments, they are beyond
-all praise. The older, dating from 1777, was built by Jorge Bosch, the
-other by Valentin Verdalonga in 1817.
-
-“Between the choir and High Altar is put up during Holy Week the
-exquisite bronze candlestick, 25 feet high, called El Tenebrario,
-one of the finest specimens of bronze work of the sixteenth century
-that exists (it may be seen in the Sacristy), and wrought, in 1562,
-by Morel; when the _Miserere_ is sung, it is lighted with thirteen
-candles, twelve of which are put out one after another, indicating that
-the Apostles deserted Christ; one alone of white wax is left burning,
-and is a symbol of the Virgin, true to the last. At Easter, also, the
-Ciro Pascual or fount candle, equal to a large marble pillar, 24 feet
-high, and weighing seven or eight hundredweight of wax, is placed to
-the left of the High Altar” (Ford).
-
-Facing the choir stands the isolated Capilla Mayor, containing the
-High Altar. It is enclosed on three sides by a railing of wrought
-iron, and on the fourth by a superb Gothic retablo. Schmidt considers
-this work the quintessence of late Gothic sculpture. The middle parts
-date from the fifteenth, the outer from the sixteenth century. The
-ornamentation is of extraordinary delicacy and richness. It is divided
-into forty-five compartments, each containing subjects from the
-Scriptures and the lives of the saints in sculpture painted and gilded.
-It is crowned by a crucifix and the statues of the Virgin and St John.
-This fine altar-piece was begun by the Fleming Dancart in 1479, and was
-completed by Spanish artists in 1526.
-
-Behind the altar is the Sacristy, adorned with terra-cotta statues by
-Miguel Florentin, Juan Marin, and others. Here is kept a reliquary
-shaped like a triptych, presented to the church by Alfonso the Wise,
-and called the Alphonsine Tables.
-
-Behind the Capilla Mayor, at the eastern extremity of the nave, is the
-Capilla Real (Royal Chapel). The building--which, as Ford remarks, is
-almost a church by itself--was begun by Gainza in 1514, and finished
-in 1566 by his successors, Fernan Ruiz, Diaz de Palacios, and Maeda.
-The chapel is of the Renaissance style, and has a lofty dome. There is
-a handsome frieze showing the figures of children carrying shields and
-lances. The chapel is divided by light pillars into seven compartments,
-of which the midmost is occupied by the altar of the Virgin de los
-Reyes. This image was the gift of St Louis of France to St Ferdinand.
-“It is of great archæological interest,” says Ford; “it is made like a
-movable lay-figure; the hair is of spun gold, and the shoes are like
-those used in the thirteenth century, ornamented with the lilies of
-France and the word “Amor.” In 1873, the fine gold crown belonging to
-this image [a sixteenth-century work] was stolen. This image is seated
-on a silver throne, thirteenth-century work, embossed with the arms of
-Castile and Leon.” The body of St Ferdinand, remarkably well preserved,
-is contained in a silver urn, placed on the original sepulchre, which
-is engraved with epitaphs in Latin, Spanish, Hebrew, and Arabic. In
-the vault beneath is the ivory figure of the Virgin de las Batallas,
-which the king always carried with him on his campaigns. It is a fine
-piece of Gothic statuary. Ferdinand’s sword is also preserved in this
-chapel. Here are the tombs of Alfonso el Sabio, of Beatriz of Swabia,
-his mother, of Pedro I., Maria de Padilla, and various Infantes. An
-interesting trophy is the flag of the Polish Legion of the French army,
-taken by the Spaniards at Bailen. The twelve statues in the entrance
-to the Capilla Real are after the designs of Peter Kempener; there is
-a Mater Dolorosa by Murillo in the sacristy. Some of the later work
-in this chapel exhibits those fantastic and grotesque features which
-became common, under the name of _Estilo Monstruoso_, in Seville.
-
-The entrance to this chapel is flanked by the Capillas de San Pedro
-and de la Concepcion Grande. In the south aisle is the chapel of the
-Purification or of the Marshal, containing a remarkable altar-piece by
-Peter Kempener--exhibiting the portraits of the founder, Marshal Pedro
-Caballero, and his family. Adjacent is the Sala Capitular, in fine
-Renaissance style, the work of Gainza and Diego de Riaño (1531). The
-roof is formed by a fine cupola, supported by Ionic columns, beneath
-which is some admirable plateresco work, with escutcheons, triglyphs,
-etc. The hall contains a portrait of St Ferdinand by Francisco Pacheco,
-the “Conception” and ovals by Murillo, and the “Four Virtues” by Pablo
-de Céspedes. Beneath the windows are seen reliefs by Velasco, Cabrera,
-and Vazquez.
-
-The sacristy (Sacristia Mayor) is in the Renaissance style, and lies
-south of the Sala Capitular. It was built by Gainza in 1535, after
-designs by Riaño, who had died two years earlier. One of the three
-altars against the southern wall is adorned by the beautiful “Descent
-from the Cross” by Peter Kempener (a native of Brussels, called by the
-Spaniards Campaña), before which Murillo used to stand for hours in
-rapt contemplation. This priceless work of art was cut in five pieces
-by the French, with a view to its removal, and has not been very well
-restored. The sacristy contains also three interesting paintings,
-dating from the early sixteenth century, by Alejo Fernandez; and the
-“San Leandro” and “San Isidore” of Murillo.
-
-In this chamber is kept the treasury of the Cathedral. In it might be
-included the superb silver monstrance by Juan de Arfe (1580-87). It
-is twelve feet high, and richly adorned with columns, reliefs, and
-statuettes. The treasury likewise contains another monstrance, studded
-with 1200 jewels; a rock-crystal cup, said to have belonged to St
-Ferdinand; and the keys presented to that sovereign on the surrender
-of the city. That given by the Jews is of iron gilt, with the words,
-_Melech hammelakim giphthohh Melek kolhaaretz gabo_ (the King of kings
-will open, the King of all the earth will enter); the other key is of
-silver gilt and was surrendered by Sakkáf. The inscription upon it is
-in Arabic, and reads, _May Allah render eternal the dominion of Islam
-in this city_.
-
-Proceeding along the south aisle, towards the main entrance, we first
-reach the Capilla de San Andrés, the burying-place of the ancient
-family of Guzman. Behind the chapel of Nuestra Señora de las Dolores is
-the fine Sacristia de los Calices. It is the work of those who built
-the Sacristia Mayor. It contains several fine paintings--the Saints
-Justa and Rufina (patrons of Seville) by Goya (among his finest works),
-the “Angel de la Guarda” and the “St Dorothy” of Murillo, the “Death
-of a Saint” by Zurbarán, the “Trinity of Theotocopuli” (El Greco),
-a triptych by Morales, and “The Death of the Virgin”--an old German
-picture. This crucifix over the altar is one of the most admirable
-productions of Montañez.
-
-The next chapel (de la Santa Cruz) is adorned by a fine “Descent from
-the Cross” by Fernandez de Guadelupe (1527). The Puerta de la Lonja
-has a fresco, painted in 1584, of “St Christopher carrying the Infant
-Jesus across a River.” A representation of this saint is to be found in
-nearly all Spanish cathedrals, owing to a curious superstition that to
-look upon it secures the beholder for the rest of that day from an evil
-death. This fresco, which measures thirty-two feet high, is opposite
-the “Capilla de la Gamba” (or, of the leg--of Adam). Here we find “La
-Generacion”--Luis de Vargas’s masterpiece. “The picture,” says Herr
-Schmidt, “is wholly in the Italian style, and one of the best examples
-of this phase of the Spanish Renaissance.”
-
-The large chapel of the Antigua contains the fine tomb of Archbishop
-Mendoza, by Miguel Florentin, erected in 1509. Here is also a very
-ancient mural painting, after the Byzantine style, of the “Madonna and
-Child,” which was placed here in 1578, and is of unknown and rather
-mysterious origin. The retablo is distinguished by marble statues in
-the baroque style by Pedro Duque Cornejo. The small sacristy behind
-this chapel contains pictures by Zurbarán, Morales, and others.
-
-The Capilla de San Hermenegildo has a good statue of the saint by
-Montañez, and a fine sepulchral monument to Archbishop Juan de
-Cervantes (1453), by Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña, the master of Nufro
-Sanchez. The Capilla de San José contains “The Espousals of the Virgin”
-by Valdés Leal, a “Nativity of Christ” by Antolinez, and an inferior
-retablo (“The Massacre of the Innocents”). The Capilla de Santa Ana
-possesses a Gothic retablo, dating from about 1450, and divided into
-fourteen sections. It comes from the old Mosque-Cathedral. The lower
-part of the work, illustrating the life of St Anne, dates from 1504,
-the artists having been Hernandez and Barbara Marmolejo. From beneath
-the tribune a staircase leads to the Archives, which escaped demolition
-at the hands of the French, through having been sent to Cadiz. The
-last chapel in the south aisle (San Laureano) is dedicated to a saint,
-who, like St Denis of France, having been decapitated, performed the
-unusual feat of walking away with his head under his arm. Here is the
-tomb of Archbishop de Ejea, who died in 1417.
-
-On the west side of the Cathedral are five small chapels. The
-Nacimiento chapel contains an admirable “Nativity with the Four
-Evangelists” by Luis de Vargas, and a “Virgin and St Anne” by Morales.
-To the right of the Puerta Mayor is the altar of Nuestra Señora del
-Consuelo, with a “Holy Family,” the masterpiece of Alonso Miguel de
-Tobar (1678-1738), esteemed the ablest of Murillo’s pupils. Facing this
-is the little altar of Santo Angel, with a “Guardian Angel” by Murillo.
-The altar of the Visitation has a good retablo by Pedro Villegas de
-Marmolejo (1502-1569), and a statue of St Jerome by his namesake,
-Geronimo Hernandez.
-
-Near the north-western corner of the church the Puerta del Sagrario
-leads into the Sagrario or Parish Church. This was built between 1618
-and 1662 in the Baroque style by Miguel Zumarraga and Fernandez de
-Iglesias. The width of the single arch of which the roof consists is
-believed to endanger the safety of the edifice. The rich statues that
-adorn the interior are by Dayne and Jose de Arce. There is a notable
-retablo by Pedro Roldan which came from a Franciscan convent now
-suppressed. The wall of the sacristy is faced with beautiful _azulejos_
-of the Arabian period, and in one of the side-chapels is a noteworthy
-statue of the Virgin by Montañez. In the vault beneath this impressive
-church the Archbishops of Seville are buried.
-
-Returning to the Cathedral, we find on the left the Capilla del
-Bautisterio or of San Antonio. It is famous for one of Murillo’s finest
-works, “St Anthony of Padua’s Vision of the Child Jesus.” This is the
-picture which was stolen in 1874, conveyed to New York, sold to a Mr
-Schaus for £50, and by him returned to the ecclesiastical authorities.
-This chapel is also remarkable for its _pila_ or font, the work of
-Antonio Florentin, and Giralda windows. Next to it is the Capilla de
-las Escalas, with two pictures by Luca Giordano, “strong in character,
-drawing, and colour,” and the sepulchre of Bishop Baltasar del Rio
-(about 1500); then comes the Capilla de Santiago, with paintings by
-Valdés Leal and Juan de las Roelas, a stained-glass window with the
-richest tones, and the tomb of Archbishop Gonzalo de Mena (1401);
-and the Capilla de San Francisco, with another fine window, and an
-ambitious “Apotheosis of St Francis” by Herrera el Mozo.
-
-Separated from this chapel by the Puerta de los Naranjos is the
-Capilla de la Visitacion (or Doncellas). The Puerta is furnished with
-two altars, one, the Altar de la Asunción, the other, the Virgen
-de Belén. The former has a painting by Carlo Maratta, the latter a
-“Virgin and Child” by Alonso Cano. The Capilla de los Evangelistas
-has an altar-piece in nine parts by Hernando de Sturmio (1555), which
-shows us the Giralda as it was before the present upper part had been
-added. Crossing before the Puerta Lagarto we reach the little chapel
-of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, with a notable “Madonna and Child” by
-Pedro Millan. The altar-piece of the Capilla de San Pedro, between
-this chapel and the Capilla Real, has paintings by Zurbarán, hardly
-distinguishable in the dim light. On the other side of the Capilla Real
-is the Chapel of la Concepcion Grande, containing pictures relating to
-the Immaculate Conception, and a crucifix attributed to Alonso Cano.
-Here is also a fine modern monument to Cardinal Cienfuegos.
-
-
-
-
-OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
-
-
-Close to the Church of San Marcos is the Convent of Santa Paula with a
-chapel dating from about 1475. The house, which is of the religious of
-St Augustine, was founded by Doña Ana de Santillan and the Portuguese
-Donha Isabel Henriquez, Marqueza de Montemayor. This illustrious lady
-and her consort, Dom João, Constable of Portugal, are entombed in the
-Capilla Mayor in separate niches. The portal of this church is one of
-the richest in Europe. It is magnificently decorated with white and
-blue _azulejos_, over the arch being seven medallions representing
-the birth of Christ and the life of St Paul, encircled with garlands
-of flowers and fruit, and the figures white on a blue ground. In the
-tympanum of the arch are displayed the Arms of Spain in white marble
-on a field of blue tiles, supported by an eagle, and flanked by the
-escutcheons of the Catholic sovereigns. The _azulejo_ work was jointly
-executed by Francesco Niculoso of Pisa and Pedro Millan. The interior
-of the church is in the sixteenth-century style, and, except for the
-tombs of the Marqueses de Montemayor, not specially interesting.
-
-In 1472 Maese Rodrigo founded a college, which afterwards became the
-seat of the University of Seville, and is now a seminary. Attached
-to it is a chapel built in the first years of the sixteenth century.
-It is a fine example of the late Gothic style. The retablo exhibits
-good painting and carving by unknown artists. The front of the altar
-displays fine specimens of Andalusian ceramic art. “The students of the
-seminary,” says Ford, “wear a scarf of brilliant scarlet upon a black
-gown.”
-
-The most important monument of this period in Seville is the Casa
-Pilatos. It illustrates the fusion of the Moorish and Renaissance
-styles, almost to the effacement of the former. In the architecture
-of this period we usually find an Arabic groundwork nearly obscured
-by ornamentation of the newer style. In the schemes of decoration the
-conventional floral designs and geometrical patterns remain, while the
-inscriptions, which figured so largely in earlier work, disappear. The
-stucco and _azulejos_ no longer cover the whole walls, and the windows
-and doors become larger and less graceful. As Herr Schmidt remarks,
-effect was no longer sought for in the innately elegant but in bold,
-monumental compositions.
-
-Mr Digby Wyatt (“An Architect’s Note-Book in Spain”) indicates as
-the two special points of architectural value possessed by the Casa
-de Pilatos, “the entirely moresque character of the stucco-work at a
-comparatively late date, and the profuse use of _azulejos_ or coloured
-tiles. It is ... in and about the splendid staircase that this charming
-tile lining, of the use of which we have here of very late years
-commenced a very satisfactory revival, asserts its value as a beautiful
-mode of introducing clean and permanent polychromatic decoration.”
-
-The history of this beautiful building is of singular interest. Its
-erection was begun in 1500 by the _adelantado_ (governor), Don Per
-Enriquez, continued by his son, Don Fadrique Enriquez de Ribera, first
-Marqués de Tarifa, after his return from a two years’ pilgrimage in
-the Holy Land, and finished by Don Per Afan, first Duque de Alcalá,
-and sometime Viceroy of Naples, in 1533. Authorities differ whether
-it received its name from its having been modelled on the House of
-Pilate, seen by Don Fadrique, or from the relics presented to the Duque
-de Alcalá by Pope Pius V. The ex-Viceroy was a liberal patron of the
-arts. He enriched his house with priceless works of art and a fine
-library--since removed to Madrid. He played the part of Mæcenas to the
-Varros of his generation. Here the wits, the savants, and the virtuosi
-of Spain were made welcome, and here they met together in a noble
-coterie. Among the frequenters of the house may be named Pacheco the
-painter, Céspedes, the Herreras, Góngora the poet, Jauregui, Baltasar
-de Alcazár, Rioja, Juan de Arguizo, and (probably) Cervantes. Herr
-Schmidt tells us that Seville did not stand alone among the cities of
-Spain in boasting such a rallying-point for genius: “In Guadalajara,
-the palace of the Mendozas, in Alba de Tormes and Abadia, the castles
-of the Duque de Alba, in Madrid, the arts were treasured by Antonio
-Perez; in Zaragoza by the Duque de Villahermosa, in Plasencia by Don
-Luis de Avila, in Burgos by the Velascos. These and other families in
-Spain followed the example set by the Medici in Italy.”
-
-The ground-plan of the Casa de Pilatos is Moorish, with an inner court,
-two storeys, guest-chambers, and high outer walls surrounding a garden.
-The exterior is plain and dignified. The portal is of marble, and
-over the arch is the text, “Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, in vanum
-laboraverunt qui ædificant eam,” etc. To the left of the door is a
-jasper cross fixed in the wall. In October 1521, the Marqués de Tarifa
-returned from the Holy Land, and having traversed the path trodden by
-Christ on His way from Pilate’s house to Calvary, he placed this cross
-on the wall and counted thence the fourteen stations of the cross. The
-last fortuitously coincided with the Cruz del Campo, raised near the
-Caños de Carmona, in the year 1482.
-
-The central _patio_ is markedly Moorish in character, and is encircled
-with arcades of extraordinary symmetry and beauty. Pedro de Madrazo
-calls attention to the harmonious variety and irregularity of the
-arches and windows, comparing the effect thus produced to the admired
-disorder of the forest and plantation. The decoration of the walls
-and arches bears a general resemblance to that of the Alcazar, but
-on closer examination the influence of the plateresco, Late Gothic,
-and Renaissance styles is revealed. The fountain in the middle of the
-_patio_ is adorned with dolphins and four huge statues belonging to
-the best period of Roman art. The chapel is in the mixed pointed and
-Moorish styles. In the vestibule the _ajaraca_, or trellis-work, the
-_azulejos_, and the _ajimeces_, or twin-windows (now converted into
-ordinary windows) recall Moorish art; while the ceiling is in the
-plateresco style. The arch of the chapel is Gothic, and its walls are
-laid with _azulejos_ and stucco. In the middle of the floor stands a
-short marble column, a copy of the pillar at which Christ is supposed
-to have been scourged, preserved at Rome; it was the gift of Pius V.
-
-The room called the Prætorium has a fine coffered ceiling and good
-tiling. The staircase is magnificent. Its walls are faced with
-_azulejos_, and its ceiling is in the cupola or half-orange style
-of the Salón de los Embajadores. Another room on the upper floor is
-adorned with paintings by Pacheco, the subject being Dædalus and
-Icarus. The view from the roof is perhaps the finest in the city.
-
-The Casa de Pilatos, as might be inferred from the character of its
-founder, is a veritable cabinet of antiques and precious objects,
-marbles and fragments from Italica figuring largely in the collection.
-
-A notable private residence, dating probably in its foundations
-from the beginning of the fifteenth century, is the Casa de Abades,
-sometimes called the Casa de los Pinelos. It passed into the hands of
-the Genoese family from which it derives its second name, and thence
-to the Cathedral Chapter (composed of _abbés_ or _abades_). In the
-sixteenth century it became the property of the Ribera family, the
-owners of the Casa de Pilatos. It is described by Madrazo as presenting
-a fine example of the Sevillian Renaissance style, which would appear
-to be compounded of all pre-existing styles. Mr Digby Wyatt, on the
-other hand, thinks the house more Italian than Spanish. But the
-beautiful _patio_, the dados of _azulejos_, and the _ajimeces_ looking
-on the courtyard are distinctly Andalusian features. There are also
-traces of Moorish geometrical ornamentation, covered with repeated
-coats of whitewash.
-
-The Palacio de las Dueñas, more properly the Palace of the Dukes of
-Alba, and sometimes called Palacio de las Pinedas, is a vast and once
-splendid mansion, partaking of the mixed style of the two buildings
-last described. It boasted at one time eleven _patios_, with nine
-fountains, and over one hundred marble columns. A fine _patio_ remains,
-surrounded by a gallery with graceful columns. The staircase, with its
-vaulted roof, recalls that of the Casa de Pilatos. In the lower part is
-a chapel of the fifteenth century, which has fared very badly at the
-hands of restorers or rather demolishers. This palace was for a time
-the residence of Lord Holland, an ardent admirer of Spanish literature,
-and the author (1805) of a memoir on Lope de Vega and Guillen de
-Castro.
-
-Other notable residences of the nobility in Seville are the Casa de
-Bustos Tavera, and the Palaces of the Dukes of Osuna and Palomares and
-the Count of Peñaflor. These all date from what may be loosely called
-Mudejar times.
-
-The Church of the University of Seville is of interest. The university
-itself was originally a college of the Society of Jesus, and was built
-in the middle of the sixteenth century, after designs ascribed to
-Herrera. Madrazo thinks it more likely that these were the work of
-the Jesuit Bartolomé de Bustamante. The church forms a Latin cross, a
-spacious half-orange dome covering the transept. The Renaissance style
-is followed. Here repose the members of the illustrious Ribera family,
-their remains having been transported hither on the suppression of the
-Cartuja (Carthusian Monastery). The oldest of the tombs is also that
-of the oldest Ribera, who died in 1423, aged 105 years. The finest is
-that of Doña Catalina (died 1505), the work of a Genoese sculptor.
-Other tombs are those of Don Pedro Henriquez, Diego Gomez de Ribera,
-Don Perafan de Ribera (1455), and Beatriz Portocarrero (1458). Let into
-the pavement is a magnificent bronze slab, to the memory of the Duque
-de Alcalá, the owner of the Casa de Pilatos. Among the sepulchres are
-those of the founder, Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, whose favourite dog
-is sculptured at his feet, and Benito Arias Montano, a _savant_ who
-died in 1598. Over the altar are three paintings: the “Holy Family,”
-the “Adoration of the Magi,” and the “Nativity”; the first by Roelas,
-the other two by his pupil, Juan de Varela. These, especially the
-first, are among the finest pictures in the city. The statue of St
-Ignatius Loyola by Montañez, coloured by Pacheco, is probably the only
-faithful likeness of the Saint. In this church are also to be seen two
-admirable works of Alonso Cano, “St John the Baptist” and “St John the
-Divine.”
-
-The Renaissance made itself felt in Spain during the reign of Charles
-V., and was productive of the plateresco style. Seville contains two
-imposing monuments of this type of architecture--the Ayuntamiento
-(Town Hall) and Lonja (Exchange). The first-named was begun in 1527
-by Diego de Riaño, and completed under Felipe II., about forty years
-later. Madrazo considers the building “somewhat inharmonious through
-the variety, a little excessive, of its lines, but admirable for the
-richness of the decoration and for fine and delicate execution--a
-merit of the first importance in structures of this style, where the
-sculptor or stone-cutter ranked with the architect.”
-
-The lower and older storey has three façades, all elaborately chased
-and designed like silversmiths’ work. The central façade, facing the
-Calle de Génova, bears the statues of Saints Ferdinand, Leandro,
-and Isidoro--symbolical of the temporal and spiritual power. The
-right façade is the purest and most regular of the three. The upper
-storey, belonging to the reign of Felipe II., appears almost plain
-in comparison with the tower. In the vestibule is a noble Latin
-inscription relating to justice. The lower Sala Capitular is a
-magnificent apartment worthy, as Madrazo remarks, of the Senate of a
-great republic. It is adorned with the statues of the Castilian kings
-down to Charles V., with a rich frieze designed with genii, masks, and
-animals, and with appropriate legends. The upper Sala Capitular has a
-magnificent _artesonado_ ceiling. Over the grand staircase are a fine
-coffered ceiling and another in the form of a cupola. The archives of
-the municipality contain several valuable historical documents, and the
-embroidered banner of St Ferdinand.
-
-The Lonja or Exchange dates from Felipe II.’s reign. The Patio de
-los Naranjos was formerly frequented by the merchants and brokers of
-Seville for the transaction of business, and this practice interfering
-seriously with divine worship in the Cathedral, the Archbishop,
-Cristobal de Rojas, petitioned Felipe II. to follow the precedent just
-established by Sir Thomas Gresham and to build an Exchange or Casa de
-Contratacion. The preparation of the plans was confided to Herrera, and
-the building, under the direction of Juan de Minjares, was finished
-in 1598--at precisely the time, as Ford remarks, that the commerce of
-Seville began to decline. The Lonja in its stern simplicity reflects,
-like the Escorial, the temper of Felipe II.--a sovereign, unpopular
-though he may have been, in whom it is impossible not to recognise
-the elements of greatness. The edifice forms a perfectly regular
-quadrangle, and the sobriety of the decoration affords a striking
-contrast to the gorgeous profusion of the Ayuntamiento. The inner
-court is noble and severe with its gallery of Doric and Ionic columns.
-The dignity of the whole has been impaired by later additions and
-restorations. Here are deposited the archives of the Indies (_i.e._
-South America), the documents being arranged in handsome mahogany
-cases. They have never been thoroughly gone through and examined.
-The business men of Seville soon abandoned their Exchange, and it is
-chiefly to be remembered as the seat of Murillo’s Academy of Painters,
-founded in 1660.
-
-In connection with the American traffic of Seville it should be
-mentioned that in the village of Castilleja la Cuesta, near the city,
-is the house where Hernando Cortés died in 1547. The place has been
-acquired by the Duc de Montpensier, by whom it has been converted into
-a sort of museum. The Conquistador’s bones rest in the country which,
-with such intrepidity, he won for the Spanish race.
-
-The Civil Hospital of Seville, otherwise known by the ghastly
-designation of the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas or del Sangre (of the
-Five Wounds or of the Blood), was designed in 1540 by Martin Gainza.
-It is a massive stone edifice of two storeys, the lower Doric and
-the upper Ionic. In the central _patio_ is the chapel in the form of
-a Greek cross, the façade exhibiting a tasteful combination of the
-three Grecian styles. The altarpiece is by Maeda and Alonzo Vazquez.
-The pictures of saints are by Zurbarán, and the “Apotheosis of St
-Hermenegild” and the “Descent from the Cross” by Roelas.
-
-
-
-
-BUILDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
-
-
-About the middle of the seventeenth century there lived at Seville
-a young gallant, Don Miguel de Mañara by name, whose excesses and
-escapades horrified even that lax generation. Marriage with the heiress
-of the Mendozas did not sober him. Of him, at this period of his life,
-this much good may be said, that he patronised and encouraged Murillo.
-But one day something happened: quite suddenly the rake changed into
-a devotee, an ascetic--a saint in the seventeenth-century acceptation
-of the word. The wine-bibber forswore even chocolate as too tempting a
-beverage.
-
-What had happened to produce this startling reformation? Accounts vary.
-Some say that Don Miguel, traversing the streets in insensate rage
-against some custom-house officials, was suddenly and vividly made
-conscious of the enormous wickedness of his life. A more picturesque
-version is the following: Returning from a carousal one night,
-the Don found himself absolutely unable to discover his house or
-the way thither. Wandering desperately up and down distressed, and
-in perplexity of mind, he perceived a funeral cortège approaching.
-Impelled by irresistible curiosity, he stepped up to the bearers of
-the bier and asked whose body they were carrying. Came the reply: “The
-corpse of Don Miguel de Mañara.” The horror-stricken prodigal tore
-aside the pall, and lo! the face of the dead man was his own. The
-vision disappeared, and the same instant the Don found himself at the
-door of his own house. He entered it a changed man.
-
-The church and hospital of La Caridad are the existing fruits of
-Don Miguel’s conversion. As far back as 1578, there had existed at
-Seville a confraternity, the objects of which were to assist condemned
-criminals at their last moments and to provide them with Christian
-burial. To this association the reformed rake turned his attention.
-He converted the chapel into a hospital for the sick, the poor, and
-the pilgrims of all nations, and liberally endowed it out of his ample
-resources.
-
-The edifice is in the decadent Greco-Roman style, and was designed by
-Bernardo Simón de Pereda. The Baroque façade is adorned with five
-large blue faïence designs on a white ground, the subjects being Faith,
-Hope, and Charity, St James, and St George. Tradition has it that these
-were made after drawings by Murillo at the _azulejo_ factory of Triana.
-The church hardly appears to us to warrant the description “one of the
-most elegant in Seville,” applied to it by Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell.
-Under the High Altar is buried the founder, Don Miguel. His own wish
-was to be buried at the entrance to the church, with the epitaph: _Aqui
-yacen los huesos y cenizas del peor hombre que ha habido en el mundo_
-(Here lie the bones and ashes of the worst man that ever lived in
-this world). His sword, and his portrait painted by Valdés Leal, are
-preserved in the Hospital.
-
-As a museum of Spanish art, La Caridad possesses great importance. The
-altarpiece, “The Descent from the Cross,” is the masterpiece of Pedro
-Roldan. The two paintings near the entrance by Juan de Valdés Leal
-(1630-1691) are regarded by Herr Schmidt as entitling that artist to
-rank as one of the greatest masters of realism of any age. This opinion
-is not shared by a recent writer (C. Gasquoine Hartley), who considers
-the pictures theatrical, though the execution exhibits a certain
-power. “In one of them a hand holds a pair of scales, in which the
-sins of the world--represented by bats, peacocks, serpents, and other
-objects--are weighed against the emblems of Christ’s Passion; in the
-other, which is the finer composition, Death, with a coffin under one
-arm, is about to extinguish a taper, which lights a table spread with
-crowns, jewels, and all the gewgaws of earthly pomp. The words ‘In Ictu
-Oculi’ circle the gleaming light of the taper, while upon the ground
-rests an open coffin, dimly revealing the corpse within.” Murillo said
-this picture had to be looked at with the nostrils closed. For the two
-paintings Valdés received 5740 reals.
-
-Of the eleven pictures painted by Murillo for this church, only six
-remain, the others having been carried off by the French. The subjects
-are “Moses striking the Rock,” the “Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,”
-the “Charity of San Juan de Dios,” the “Annunciation,” the “Infant
-Jesus,” and “St John.” The first picture, depicting, as it does, the
-terrible thirst experienced by the Israelites, is known as _La Sed_
-(Thirst). Some critics think this is one of the finest of the master’s
-productions. As is usual in his compositions, the figures are all
-those of ordinary Sevillian types. “The personality of Christ in
-the ‘Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,’” says C. Gasquoine Hartley,
-“lacks the force of the ancient prophet, and the work as a whole
-is inferior to its companion picture.” The “Charity of San Juan de
-Dios”--representing the Saint carrying a beggar with the help of an
-angel--is the best and most characteristic of the six paintings. The
-“Infant Jesus” and the “St John” are also very fine. For the “San
-Juan de Dios” and the “St Elizabeth of Hungary”--_El Tiñoso_--(now at
-Madrid) together, Murillo was paid 18,840 reals; for the Moses, 13,300
-reals; and for the “Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,” 15,973 reals.
-
-The last building which may be said to rank as an architectural
-monument erected in Seville is the Palacio de San Telmo, now the
-residence of the Duc de Montpensier. In the year 1682 the Naval School
-of San Telmo was founded on the site of the former palace of the
-Bishops of Morocco and the tribunal of the Holy Office. The present
-edifice, begun, after plans by Antonio Rodriguez, in 1734, was not
-completed till 1796. The palace adjoins the beautiful gardens of the
-Delicias. The façade is exceedingly ornate, the decoration being in
-the Plateresco style. The general effect is pleasing, but critics have
-been unsparing in their denunciations of the structure. It certainly
-reflects the debasing influence of the architect Jose Churriguera
-(1665-1725), who has given his name (_Churrigueresque_) to one of the
-most tawdry and tasteless styles of architecture.
-
-The Archiepiscopal Palace, adjacent to the Cathedral, is also in the
-bad style of the later seventeenth century. The interior, however, is
-worth visiting for the sake of the noble marble staircase, one of the
-finest in the city. Here are three paintings by Alejo Fernandez, an
-early seventeenth-century artist, whom Lord Leighton considered “the
-most conspicuous among the Gothic painters.”
-
-The Fabrica de Tabacos is a vast building completed in 1757. Apart
-from its size, it possesses no architectural interest, and though a
-favourite showplace for tourists, does not come within the scope of a
-work of this character.
-
-
-
-
-THE PAINTERS OF SEVILLE
-
-BY
-
-ALBERT F. CALVERT AND C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY
-
-
-In Seville, perhaps to a greater extent than in any city, even in
-Spain, the country of passionate individualism, art is the reflection
-of the life and temper of the people; and to understand Seville we
-must know her painters. As we look at the pictures of the Spanish
-primitives, at the emphatic canvases of Juan de las Roelas and
-Herrera, for instance; at the realism of Zubarán, or, still more, at
-the ecstatic visions of Murillo--as we see them in the old Convento
-de la Merced, now the Museo Provincial, in the Cathedral, or in one
-or another of the numerous churches in the city, we find the special
-spirit of Andalusia.
-
-There is one quality that, at a first glance, impresses us in these
-pictures, so different, and yet all having one aim. It is their
-profound seriousness. Rarely, indeed, shall we find a picture in which
-the idea of beauty, whether it is the beauty of colour or the beauty
-of form, has stood first in the painter’s mind; almost in vain shall
-we search for any love of landscape, for any passage introduced just
-for its own sake. For, let it be remembered, in Andalusia art was
-devotional always. “The chief end of art,” says Pacheco, the master of
-Velazquez, in his _Arte de la Pintura_, “is to persuade men to piety
-and to incline them to God.” Pictures had other purposes to serve
-than that of beauty. They were painted for the Church to enforce its
-lessons, they were used as warnings, and as a means of recording the
-lives of the Saints. In other countries, it is true, painters have
-spent their strength in religious art, but almost always we can find as
-well as the sacred, some outside motive, some human love of the subject
-for itself--for its opportunities of beauty. The intense realism of
-these Spanish pictures is a thing apart; these Assumptions, Martyrdoms,
-and Saintly Legends were painted with a vivid sense of the reality of
-these things by men who felt upon them the hand of God. We know that
-Luis de Vargas daily humbled himself by scourging and by wearing a hair
-shirt, and Juan Juanes prepared himself for a new picture by communion
-and confession. These are two examples chosen out of many. A legend
-we read of Don Miguel de Mañara, the founder of the Hospital of La
-Caridad, illustrates this dramatic religious sense of Spain. One day
-in church Don Miguel saw a beautiful nun, and, forgetful of her habit,
-made amorous proposals. She did not speak; instead, she turned to look
-at him; whereupon he saw the side of her face which had been hidden
-from his eyes: it was eaten away, corrupted by a hideous disease,
-so that it seemed more horrible than the face of death. It was such
-scenes as this that the Spanish artists chose to paint. But, indeed, it
-would be tedious to enumerate the examples which Spain offers of this
-curious, often, it would seem to us, corrupted sense of the gloom of
-life, carrying with it as one result the passionate responsibility of
-art. Always, we feel certain that the Spanish painters felt all that
-they express.
-
-And this overpowering, if mistaken, understanding of the presence of
-the divine life gave a profound seriousness to human life. The shadow
-of earth was felt, not its light; and emotion expressed itself in
-an intense seriousness, that is over-emphatic too often--always, in
-fact, when the painter’s idea is not centred in reality. This is the
-reason why a Spanish painter had to treat a vision as a real scene.
-We have pictures horrible with the sense of human corruption--such,
-for instance, are the two gruesome canvases of Valdés Leal, in La
-Caridad. Again and again is enforced the Catholic lesson of humility,
-expressing itself in acts of charity to the poor, so essential an idea
-when this life is held as but a threshold to a divine life. We find a
-sort of wild delight in martyrdom; a joy that is perfectly sincere in
-the scourging of the body. All the Spanish pictures tell stories. Was
-not their aim to translate life?--the life of earth and the, to them,
-truer life of heaven--and life itself is a story? Their successes in
-art are due to this, their failures to the sacrifice of all endeavours
-to this aim; a danger from which, perhaps, no painter except Velazquez
-quite escaped. He, faultless in balance, in his exquisite statement of
-life, expresses perfectly the truth his predecessors had tried for,
-but missed, except indeed now and again, in some unusual triumph over
-themselves. We find hardly a painter able to free himself from the
-traditions of his subject. Only Velazquez, controlled by the northern
-strain that mingles with the passion of his Andalusian temper, was
-saved quite from this danger of over-statement. And Velazquez does not
-belong to Seville, though he was born in the southern city on June 5,
-1599, in the house, No. 8, Calle de Gorgoja; though the first years
-of his life were spent there, the time of childhood, the few months
-of work with the violent Herrera, the five years in the studio of
-Pacheco, his master; though--a fact of greater import--his temper was
-Andalusian; and though his early pictures--the _bodégones_, so familiar
-to us in England, whither so many have travelled through the fortune
-of wars--are entirely Spanish in their direct realism. Velazquez
-worked contemporaneously with the Realistic movement that quickened
-the arts in Seville in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but he
-worked outside it. This explains the silence of his art in Seville. Of
-the pictures of his youth, painted while he was there, none remain,
-except one in the Archiepiscopal Palace, “The Virgin delivering the
-Chasuble to San Ildefonso”; and the authenticity of this picture has
-been denied until very recently, a fact explained by the bad condition
-of the canvas. To see the wonderful art of Velazquez you must leave
-Seville and visit the Museo del Prado at Madrid. Seville is the home
-of religious art. The habit of her painters was serious; in their
-profound religious sense, in their adherence, almost brutal at times,
-to facts, as well as in those interludes of sensuous sweetness that
-now and again, as, for instance in the art of Murillo, burst out so
-strangely like an exotic bloom, they reflect the temper of Spain. It
-is contended sometimes that these pictures in Seville are wanting in
-dignity, wanting in beauty. But are we not too apt to confine beauty to
-certain forms of accepted expression? Surely any art that has life; has
-dignity, has beauty; and no one can deny that life was the inspiration
-of the Andalusian painters.
-
-We must remember these things if we would understand the pictures in
-Seville.
-
-But first we find ourselves carried away from the reality and darkness
-of life back to a happy childhood of art, as we look at the three
-fourteenth-century frescoes of the Virgin--the “Antigua,” in the chapel
-named after it in the Cathedral, “Nuestra Señora del Corral” in San
-Ildefonso, and “Señora Maria de Rocamador” in San Lorenzo--an art
-when the painter, less conscious of life and of himself, was content
-to paint beautiful patterns. In these three pictures--all that are
-left to us--we see the last of Byzantine art in Spain. The figures,
-with long oval faces all of one type, are placed stiffly against a
-background of Gothic gold. Look at “Señora Maria de Rocamador,” as she
-sits holding the Child upon her knees; while two little angels kneel,
-one upon the left, one on the right. She wears a blue robe, partly
-covered with a mantle of deep purple, very beautiful with ornaments
-of gold and bordered with gold braid. A bent coronet around her head
-stands out against the glowing halo; the background is all of gold
-woven into a delicate pattern. It is a picture of pure convention in
-which is no effort to carry the mind beyond what is actually seen;
-it makes its appeal just as so much decoration. This fresco, as well
-as the “Antigua” and “Nuestra Señora del Corral,” have been much
-repainted--the ill-fortune of so many early Spanish works.
-
-But, in the fifteenth century, a new spirit came into art; and with
-the work of Juan Sánchez de Castro the school of Seville may be said
-to begin. No knowledge has come down to us of his life; we know only
-that he was painting in Seville between 1454 and 1516. In his great
-fresco of “San Cristóbal,” that covers the wall near to the main door
-in the old Church of San Julian--alas! now spoiled by re-painting and
-by the subsequent rotting away of the plaster--we find a different,
-human, almost playful treatment of a sacred story. And for the first
-time in Seville, we see the special Spanish quality, characteristic
-of the whole school from this time to the time of Goya, of rendering a
-scene just as the painter supposed it might have happened. “A child’s
-dream of a picture,” Mr Arthur Symons has called it. San Cristóbal,
-many times the size of life, stretching from floor to ceiling, fills
-the whole picture; he leans upon a pine-staff as he supports the Child
-Christ upon his shoulders, who holds in his hands a globe of the world
-upon which the shadow of a cross has fallen. The other figures, the
-hermit and two pilgrims with staves and cloaks, are quite small; they
-reach just to the Saint’s knees. And this immense grotesque figure is
-painted in all seriousness, as a child might picture such a scene. To
-understand the sincerity of the Spanish painter, we must compare his
-work with that other fresco of “San Cristóbal,” painted, much later,
-by Perez de Alesio, which is in the Cathedral. The Italian picture is
-an attempt to illustrate a popular miracle, perfectly unconvincing;
-De Castro’s Saint compels us to accept and realise what the painter
-himself believed in. This is the difference between them.
-
-In the smaller pictures of Sánchez de Castro that remain to us, such,
-for instance, as the panel of the “Madonna with St Peter and St
-Jerome,” once in San Julian, but now in the Cathedral, we find him
-more bound by convention, less himself. We see the immense debt Spanish
-painting owed to Flemish art. And this influence, always so beneficial,
-the Northern art being, for reasons of race not possible to state here,
-the true affinity of Spain in art, remains, with different and more
-certain knowledge, in the “Pietà” of Juan Nuñez, which still hangs
-in the Cathedral where it was painted. It meets us again in the fine
-and interesting “Entombment” by Pedro Sánchez, a painter of whom we
-know nothing, except that his name is given by Cean Bermudez among the
-illustrious artists of Spain. The picture may be seen in the collection
-of Don José López Cepero, at No. 7 Plaza de Alfaro, the house in which
-Murillo is said to have lived. In all three pictures, and in other
-work of the same period not possible to mention here, we are face to
-face with that special Spanish trait, the pre-occupation with grief,
-that is quite absent from the early fourteenth-century Madonnas, as
-from the simple child-art of De Castro’s “San Cristóbal.” The shadow
-of the Inquisition had fallen; art, the handmaid of the Church, could
-express itself no longer in quaint and beautiful symbols. Instead, it
-had to force itself to be taken seriously, being occupied wholly with
-emphatic statements, its aim an insistence on the relation of human
-life to the divine life.
-
-But the joy of life did not die easily.
-
-Juan Nuñez, once, at least, in those pictures in the Cathedral in which
-he has painted the archangels Michael and Gabriel quite gaily, their
-wings bright with peacock’s feathers, returns to the child-humour of
-De Castro. And Nuñez carries us forward to Alejo Fernandez, the most
-important painter of this early period, much of whose work remains for
-us in the Cathedral and in the old churches of Seville.
-
-Go to the suburb of Triana, and in the Church of Santa Ana there is the
-sweetest Madonna and Child, in which we find a new suggestion in the
-joy of the Mother in her Babe, a human attitude, making the picture
-something more than mere illustration. And we notice a delicate care
-for beauty found very rarely in Seville, perhaps never as perfectly as
-in the work of this painter. The “Virgen de la Rosa” is the name given
-to the picture. The Mother sits enthroned under a canopy of gold, in
-a beautiful robe of elaborate pattern, pale gold on brown. She holds
-a white rose out to her Child. Typical of Fernandez is this fortunate
-use of the flower; typical, too, of his new mood of invention is the
-small landscape of rocky and wooded country that fills the distance.
-The gracious pose of the Virgin, the beauty in the Child, show an
-advance in ease upon earlier pictures. But the other figures, four
-angels who guard the Mother, all posed a little awkwardly, suggest
-a scheme on whose design the early Byzantine models may have had a
-forming influence, though the result is different enough. For Fernandez
-understood the very spirit of the Renaissance; he saw life beautifully
-and strongly. The attraction of the picture is in its effect of joy, in
-the charming way in which it forms a pattern of beautiful colour, and
-in its new sense of humanity that carries us beyond the scene itself.
-
-And there are other pictures of Fernandez in Seville: the great
-altar-piece in eight sections--one is a copy--that tells the story of
-Joseph, Mary, and the Child, in the old Church of San Julian; and there
-is a large “Adoration of the Magi,” the “Birth and Purification of the
-Virgin,” and the “Reconciliation of St Joachim and St Anne,” all in the
-Cathedral--the first in the Sacristía de los Cálices, and three others
-in unfortunate darkness, over the Sacristía altar. And if these larger
-pictures have not quite the fresh charm of the “Madonna of Santa Ana,”
-in each one we find a real understanding of beauty, and with it the
-Spanish gift of presenting the sacred stories as drama, just as the
-painter felt it all must have happened. Each figure in these scenes
-has life, has character. No lover of Spanish painting can afford to
-neglect any picture of Fernandez, and no estimate of the early art of
-the country can be true that does not include his work. Of his life we
-know nothing, merely that he came with his brother Juan from Cordova
-in 1508, called by the Chapter to work in Seville Cathedral. But it
-matters little that his life is unrecorded, for the work that he has
-left is his best history.
-
-In these first years of the Sevillian school, when art was sincere and
-young, many pictures were painted, all strong work, all interesting,
-in lesser or greater measure, to the student, even if not to the art
-lover, as showing the growth of a national style. In many cases the
-names of the artists are unknown; no painter has left much record of
-himself. These pictures, which may be recognised very readily, are
-found in the Museo de la Merced, in the Cathedral, and still more in
-the churches, the true museums of Seville.
-
-But fashion in art changes, and the sixteenth century witnessed the
-manifestation of a new mood in painting, the advent to Spain of the
-Italian influences of the Renaissance. This is not the place to speak
-of the blight which fell upon art. The distinctively Italian schools
-were only an influence of evil in Spain, and the inauguration of
-the new manner was the birth of a period of great artistic poverty.
-The main desire of the sixteenth-century painters was, as it were,
-to wipe the artistic slate. All pictures painted in the old style
-were repudiated as barbarous, cast aside as an out-of-date garment.
-The country became overrun by third-rate imitators of the Italian
-grand style, of Michael Angelo, of Raphael and his followers. The
-decorations, as you can still see them, of the Escorial, may be taken
-as typical of Italian art as it was transplanted into Spain. All
-national art that was not Italian in its inspiration was looked upon as
-worthless.
-
-Yet, be it remembered, that the Spanish painters, more perhaps than
-the painters of any other school, could imitate and absorb the art
-of others without degenerating wholly into copyists. The temper of
-the nation was strong. Even now it was not so much a _copying_ of
-Italian art, rather it was an unfortunate blending of style which
-took away for a time the dignity and strength which is the beauty
-of Spanish painting. Thus, Peter van Kempeneer, a Flemish painter,
-known better in Spain as Pedro Campaña, who, strangely enough, was
-the first to bring the Italian influence to Seville, was inspired
-alternately by the Northern and Italian styles; and in such a picture
-as his famous “Descent from the Cross,” still in the Sacristía Mayor
-of the Cathedral, with its crude colour and extravagant action, we
-find him--in an effort, it is said, to imitate Michael Angelo--being
-more Spanish than the Spaniards. Indeed, this picture, which made
-such strong appeal to Murillo that he chose to rest beneath it in
-death, gives us a very curious, left-handed fore-vision, as it were,
-of the marvellous work of Ribera. In the large altar-piece, of many
-compartments, of the Capilla del Mariscal in the Cathedral, the
-first picture painted by Campaña, when, in 1548, he came to Seville,
-we see him a realist in the portraits of the donors, painted with
-admirable truth; but in the “Purification of the Virgin,” the scene
-that fills the lower compartment of the altar, he is Italian and
-demonstrative--spectacular movement, meaningless gestures, all done for
-effect.
-
-The Italian influence, the _buena manera_ it was called in Seville,
-is more insistent in Luis de Vargas, whose painting was contemporary
-with that of Campaña. He was the first painter of Seville to submit
-himself wholly to Italy, and most often he was inspired by Raphael.
-Much of his work has perished; of the once famous frescoes, “his
-greatest gift to Seville,” nothing remains except a few colour traces
-upon the Giralda Tower. De Vargas, the pupil probably of Perino del
-Vagas, brought back as the reward of twenty-eight years of painting in
-Italy much craft skill; and his work, as we see it in the “Pietà,” in
-Santa Maria la Blanca, in the earlier “Nativity,” and, even more, in
-his masterpiece, the popular “La Gamba,” both in the Cathedral, gives
-us a borrowed art, academic and emotional. Only in portraiture does
-he say what he has to say for himself. The portrait of Fernando de
-Contreras, in the Sacristía de los Calices, is a portrait of sincerity
-and character, in which is the Spanish insistence on detail, unpleasant
-detail even, as in the ill-shaven cheeks rendered with such exact care.
-Contrast this portrait with his other pictures, so extravagant, with
-such futile gesticulation, to understand how a really capable painter
-lost his sincerity, as just then it was lost in all Spanish painting.
-In this effort to be Italian, De Vargas’ natural gift of reality, as we
-see it, for instance, in the “Christ” of Santa Maria la Blanca, or in
-the peasant boy of the Cathedral “Nativity,” was overclouded, mingled
-curiously enough with a Raphaelesque sweetness. It was not that this
-painter did not realise the scenes that he depicts--yes, and depicts
-with passion--do we not know the sincere piety of his life?--but
-he used to express them an art that was not his own, an art he was
-temperamentally unfitted to understand.
-
-Contemporary with Campaña and De Vargas, the leaders of the Andalusian
-Mannerists, worked a band of painters of second, or even third-rate,
-talent. Francisco Frutet, like Campaña a Flemish painter who had learnt
-his art in Italy, and who came to Seville about 1548, is typical of
-these “improvers,” as Pacheco calls them so mistakenly, of the native
-art. His best work is his Triptych in the Museo, in which again we see
-the same curious mingling of Flemish and Italian types; the Christ,
-for instance, recalling the models of Italy, while Simon of Cyrene,
-who bends beneath the Cross, is nearer to the Gothic figures. Pedro
-Villegas Marmolejo has more interest. His quiet pleasing pictures--one
-is in the Cathedral, one in San Pedro--interpret Italian art with more
-charm, but still without originality.
-
-And Marmolejo leads us quite naturally to Juan de las Roelas, and
-in Roelas we have at last a Spanish painter who learnt from Italy
-something more than mere technical imitation. And in spite of a
-want of concentration--the accustomed insincerity, the result, it
-would seem, of a too persistent effort to express his art in the art
-of Venice, in which city he is thought to have painted, perhaps in
-the studio of some follower of Titian, he does realise his scenes
-with something of the old intensity. Roelas anticipates Murillo, not
-altogether unworthily, giving us, with less originality, but with much
-sweetness, an expression of that mood of religious sensuousness that is
-one phase of Spanish painting. Seville is the single home of Roelas;[A]
-here we may see his pictures in the Cathedral, in the Museum, and in
-many of the churches. His art is unequal in its merit. In his large
-compositions often there is confusion--“Santiago destroying the Moors
-at the Battle of Clavijo,” his picture in the Cathedral, is one
-instance--spaces are left uncared for, the composition is a little
-awkward, the brush-work is careless, a fault that is common to much of
-his work. The “Martyrdom of St Andrew,” in the Museum, is perhaps his
-most original picture. Here Roelas is a realist. And how expressive of
-life--Spanish life, are all the powerfully contrasted figures that so
-truly take their part in the scene depicted. In some of his pictures
-Roelas gives us the brightest visions. Such is “El Transito de San
-Isidore,” in the parish church of the saint, a picture in which we see
-in the treatment of Christ and Mary and the child-angels a manner that
-seems, indeed, to forestall Murillo; such, too, are the “Apotheosis of
-San Hermenegildo,” and the “Descent of the Holy Spirit,” both in the
-church of the Hospital of La Sangre. All three pictures are difficult
-to see: one is hidden behind the altar, the other two hang at a great
-height in the church where the light is dim. There are good pictures
-by Roelas in the University, a “Holy Child,” the “Adoration of the
-Kings,” and the “Presentation of the Child Christ in the Temple”; and
-in this last picture, with its soft colour and human gaiety, again we
-are reminded of Murillo. But a work of perhaps more interest, certainly
-of more strength, is “St Peter freed from Prison by the Angel,” which
-is hidden in a side-chapel in the Church of San Pedro. Then, how quiet,
-with a repose uncommon enough in Spain, is his “Virgin and Santa Ana,”
-in the Museo de la Merced. The figures--the girl Virgin, her mother,
-and the angels who crowd the space above them--all have the fairness
-Roelas gives to women; the soft glow of their flesh is beautiful. Look
-at the cat and dog that play so naturally in the foreground, beside a
-work-basket, and what a happy “note” is given by the open drawer, which
-shows the linen and lace within. Certainly this picture is more Italian
-than Spanish.
-
-As the years passed, and art in Seville grew older, many painters
-trod in the steps worn by these others. It is not possible, nor is it
-necessary, to wait to look at their pictures; too often they exaggerate
-the faults of the masters they copied, and by a slavish repetition of
-accepted ideas--the inevitable fault of the age--they weakened still
-further native art. And, when we come to the next century, which
-gives us Alonso Cano, sculptor, architect, and painter, described
-admirably by Lord Leighton as “an eclectic with a Spanish accent,”
-many of whose facile, meaningless pictures may be seen in Seville, to
-the much inferior work of the younger Herrera, and to the exaggerated
-over-statements of Juan de Valdés Leal, in whose art Sevillian painting
-may be said to die, we realise into what degradation pseudo-Italianism
-had dragged painting.
-
-But there is a reverse side to the picture. The spirit of Spain was too
-strong to sleep in an art that was borrowed. Already Luis de Morales,
-a native of Estremadura, known as “the divine,” on account of the
-exclusively religious character of the subjects he painted, and of
-the strange intensity with which he impregnated them, had evolved for
-himself a sincere expression of Spanish art; already Navarrete, the
-mute painter of Navarre, had broken from conventions, and taken for
-himself inspiration from the marvellous pictures of Titian which he
-had seen at the Escorial; already, Theotócopuli, known better as El
-Greco, was painting with wonderful genius in Toledo, pictures, so new,
-so personal, that to-day they command the attention of the world. But
-Seville does not represent these painters.[B]
-
-It has been the fashion, since the tradition was started by Cean
-Bermudez, to call Herrera _el viejo_ (1576-1656) “the anticipator of
-the true Spanish school.” Herrera had a studio in Seville, in which
-worked many painters, and among them Velazquez, Antonio Castillo y
-Saavedra, and perhaps Alonso Cano; and it seems certain that he owes
-his position to-day in large measure to this fact; had he not been for
-a few months the master of Velazquez his impossible art would remain
-unknown outside Seville. For the truth is Herrera said nothing that
-Roelas had not already said better.
-
-His temper was Spanish enough, but his work is without originality,
-if emphatic and personal in a too vehemently Spanish way. Yet it is
-worth while to see, yes, and to study, each one of his half-dozen
-pictures. Even in Seville, Herrera’s work is rare; the “Apotheosis
-of San Hermenegildo,” and the later, more violent “San Basil,” are
-in the Museum, where, too, are the less known, but much better,
-portrait-pictures of apostles and saints; while the “Final Judgment,”
-his most personal work, is still where it was painted in the darkness
-of the Parroquina of San Bernado. One quality we may grant to
-Herrera; he did resist the popular Italian influence. These pictures,
-sensational as they are, with their hot disagreeable colour--“macaroni
-in tomato sauce” Mr Ricketts aptly terms it--their mannerism,
-extravagant contortions and splash brush-work, have little apart from
-this to recommend them. But you will understand better the esteem
-Herrera has gained if you will compare his work with the paintings of
-his contemporaries; the conscientious, academic Pacheco, for instance,
-the last, and, in himself, the most interesting of the Mannerists,
-or with Murillo’s master, Juan del Castillo, the worst painter of
-Seville, whose pictures fill with formal tedium so many buildings in
-the city. This is why Herrera’s pictures claim notice from the student
-of Andalusian art to-day: they form a link in the unbroken chain of the
-national pictures.
-
-Now turn to Zurbarán.
-
-You pass at once into a world of realism, a world in which facts,
-obvious facts, are set forth with a downright passion of statement that
-for a moment tricks us; we think we have found life, and, instead,
-we have the outward form, too monotonously literal, and without
-suggestion. Upon Zurbarán lies the weight of the sadness of Spain. It
-is something of this that we realise as we see the thirty or forty of
-his pictures that are in Seville, gathered together for the most part
-in the Museo de la Merced, where the light is so much better than it
-is in the Cathedral and in the churches, though there certainly his
-pictures seem to be more fittingly at home. Each picture is so true to
-life, and yet without life. Look at his Saints, all are portraits,
-faces caught in a mirror that seems to sum up the old world of Spain.
-Contrast these Saints with the Saints of Murillo. What honesty is
-here; what singular striving to record the truth. Note the gravity and
-simplicity of the Scriptural scenes; his conception of the Christ; the
-intensity of the three renderings of the Crucifixion, in which for once
-Zurbarán finds a subject suited exactly to his art; then mark how the
-peasants[C] he depicts are almost startling in their outward nearness
-to life.
-
-Look especially at the Carthusian pictures in the Museum, “San Hugo
-visiting the Monks in their Refectory,” the “Virgen de las Cuevas,”
-and “St Bruno conversing with Pope Urban II.” They are typical of
-Zurbarán’s special gift. In the first of these three pictures, which
-is the best, the monks clad in the soft white robes of their order are
-seated around a table at their mid-day meal. The aged Hugo stands in
-the foreground, attended by a boy-page; he has come to reprove them
-for dining upon flesh-meat. His purple vestments give a note of colour
-in contrast with the white frocks of the brothers. But, as is customary
-with Zurbarán, colour counts for very little, and atmosphere for less,
-in this picture in which all care is given to formal outline and exact
-expression. Once only in the “Apotheosis of St Thomas Aquinas,” also
-in the Museo, does he give us some of that warm colour he should have
-learnt from Roelas, whose pupil he is said to have been. This is one
-reason why his figures, so true to the facts of life, do not live. But
-no one has painted ecclesiastics and monks quite as Zurbarán has done.
-His sincerity is annoying almost; for he tells us nothing that we could
-not have seen for ourselves; we are no nearer than a photograph would
-bring us to the character of these men. Zurbarán was hardly consciously
-an artist; and with all his sincerity, his vision was ordinary. He was
-a recorder and not an interpreter of life, and in gaining reality he
-has just missed truth.
-
-On coming to the work of Murillo it is quite another phase of the
-religious sentiment of Spain that we see developed: we gain an
-over-statement of sweetness, not an over-statement of facts. The spirit
-in which he painted was happier, more trustful, more personal than was
-that of Zurbarán; he is more Andalusian and less Spanish, and certainly
-better equipped as a painter.
-
-Murillo forms part of your life while you are in Seville, he is more
-or less around you everywhere; and though to some of us, perhaps
-not unjustly, he is a painter we have tried in vain to love, he
-does express in a special way the very aspect of the southern city
-he himself loved with such single devotion. This is why we like him
-so much better in Seville than we are able to do anywhere else. His
-pictures repeat the full life of Andalusia--its religious emotion, its
-splendour, its poverty, its stark contrasts, its rich sense of life;
-and his colours are the same colours that we see in the landscape, warm
-and deep, the soft, hot light of southern Spain. You don’t visit the
-Museum, La Caridad, the Cathedral, and the churches to see his pictures
-as a change of amusement from the streets; you go because they renew
-the same atmosphere, and offer a reproduction of so much that surrounds
-you.
-
-No one has ever painted ecstasy with quite the facility of Murillo. And
-in the Museum, where the Capuchin Series and other famous pictures are
-gathered, you can learn all that is essential to his art; his happy
-Saints swim before you in mists of luscious colour; cherubs flutter
-around as they minister to beggars clad in rags carefully draped;
-Virgins, garbed in the conventional blue and white, their feet resting
-upon the crescent moon, vanish into luminous vapour, their robes rustle
-in the air, and their sun-lighted faces repeat the very complexion of
-Seville. Murillo had neither the power nor the desire to idealise his
-models. His Saints--St Francis of Assisi, St Felix of Cantalicio, St
-Anthony, St Thomas of Villanueva--and how many more? are men such as
-may be seen to-day in the streets of Seville; all are alike, the name
-alone differs. His Madonnas are peasants whose emotions are purely
-human. More perhaps than any painter Murillo’s work is personal--he
-translated the divine life and made it his own common human life--the
-fault is that his personality is not interesting. And seeing these
-pictures, and, even more, his other work--pictures hanging still in the
-churches for which they were painted, where they seem to share in the
-pervading religious emotion and to take their part in the life of the
-building--the “Vision of St Anthony of Padua” in the Baptistery of the
-Cathedral, for instance, or the great pictures of La Caridad; you will
-understand how Murillo came to be idolised in Spain; how his pictures
-held, for a time, the admiration of Europe; and how to-day he has
-ceased to interest a world that has grown older and seeks, above all,
-the truth.
-
-Murillo was impelled by a desire for realism. There is much of the
-spirit and manner of Zurbarán in his early pictures: “San Leandro
-and San Buenaventura,” two early “Virgins and the Child,” and the
-“Adoration of the Shepherds,” all in the Museum, are examples. The same
-careful characterisation meets us in the much later “Last Supper” of
-Santa Maria la Blanca, his most truthful Scriptural scene. Then his
-portraits, such as those of SS. Leandro and Isidore in the Sacristia
-Mayor of the Cathedral, or that of St Dorothy in the Sacristia de
-los Cálices, are serious studies after nature. Once or twice in his
-landscapes we find a sincerity that surprises us. But a painter must
-be judged by the main output of his art. And the truth is that, with
-a natural gift that certainly was great, added to unusual facility,
-Murillo’s personality was commonplace. His self-assurance amazes
-us. His emotion, neither profound nor simple, but always perfectly
-satisfied, perfectly happy, exactly fitted him to give voice to the
-common sentiments of his age. He did create a sort of life, but his
-compositions are the work of his hand rather than of his soul. All
-his Saints, his Madonnas--pose unthinkingly in the subtly interwoven
-light he knew so well how to paint, living only in the moment which
-their conventionalised attitudes perpetuate. You do not realise them as
-personalities greeting you from the canvas like the intense, painful
-faces of El Greco, or the wonderful creations of Velazquez; if you
-remember them at all it is part of a pleasing picture. This is the
-reason why these religious idylls have lost so much of their meaning;
-their over-statement of sweetness cloys. Murillo gives us one aspect
-of Andalusia; it was left for El Greco, Ribera, Velazquez, and Goya to
-interpret Spain to the world.
-
-
-
-
-THE OLD ROMAN CITY.
-
-
-Moor and Spaniard have, between them, effaced almost all traces of the
-ancient Hispalis or Romula, the little Rome; but the sister-city of
-Italica, early deserted by man, has been dealt not too harshly with by
-time. Its remains--a Spanish league to the north-west of Seville--still
-attract the artist and the archæologist. There, where the wretched
-hamlet of Santi Ponce now stands, was in the dim past the Iberian
-village of Sancios. Scipio the Elder, after his long and victorious
-campaign, passed this way, and selected the spot as a place of rest and
-refreshment for his war-worn veterans. “Relicto utpote pacata regione
-valido præsidio, Scipio milites omnes vulneribus debiles in unam urbem
-compulit, quam ab Italia Italicam nominavit,” says Appian. Señor de
-Madrazo remarks that this must have been the first Latin-speaking town
-founded outside Italy. It was not at first a municipium, but a place
-for meeting and council of the Roman citizens. The municipal status it
-owed to Augustus. Subsequently, its citizens petitioned to be classed
-as a colony of Rome.
-
-The colony proved not unworthy of the great capital. Hence sprang the
-illustrious line of the Ælii, and most of the eminent Roman Spaniards
-who conferred such lustre on the early Empire are believed to have
-been natives of the place. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at
-that the citizens should have preferred a nominal dependence on the
-Mother City to the quasi-independence of a provincial municipality.
-But Italica never seems to have been a city in the modern sense of
-the word. Excavations have revealed extremely few remains of private
-habitations or bazaars. The only vestiges are those of great public
-monuments--temples, palaces, amphitheatres, baths. The Emperors seem to
-have delighted to embellish this small town with ornaments quite out of
-proportion to its size and population, and it is clear that it never
-was a serious rival to its older neighbour, Hispalis.
-
-Its downfall, like its history, is mysterious. Leovigild occupied it
-while besieging Seville, which was held by his son, Hermenigild. Later
-on, the Arabs are said to have demolished it almost completely, and
-to have carried off numerous statues, columns, and blocks of masonry
-to serve in the construction and adornment of the neighbouring city.
-Then Italica disappeared from history. Earthquakes finished the work
-of ruin, and the scattered stones went to the making of the miserable
-village of Santi Ponce--a name which some derive from that of San
-Geroncio, a Bishop of Italica in early times.
-
-The amphitheatre is now all that remains to attest the erstwhile
-splendour of the darling colony of the Ælii. It is a melancholy and
-yet a pretty spot, approached through olive plantations. Some of the
-walls are still standing, and enable us to determine the dimensions,
-which are stated at 291 feet length and 204 feet breadth. You may still
-see the Podium or stone platform, whereon the civic dignitaries sate,
-and the upper tiers appropriated to the populace. You may pass down
-the vomitoria, through which the spectators streamed, glutted with
-the sight of blood, and penetrate to the dens and chambers, wherein
-gladiators and wild beasts were confined before the combat. Italica is
-more a place to muse in than to explore. The place has long since been
-rifled of all its treasures. Extensive ruins of what was believed to
-have been the palace of Trajan existed down till the great earthquake
-of 1755, and all that was spared were three statues preserved in the
-Museo Provincial or Picture Gallery.
-
-Close to the ruins is the convent of San Isidoro del Campo, founded in
-1301 by Don Alonso Perez de Guzman, as a place of sepulture for him and
-his family. The establishment was peopled first by the Cistercians,
-later by the Hermits of St Jerome. The edifice presents the appearance
-of a fortified abbey of the Middle Ages, though not without traces of
-Mudejar influence. The church is Gothic, and divided into two naves,
-united by a transept, and constituting each a distinct church. One of
-these structures was built by the hero of Tarifa, Guzman the Good, and
-contains his tomb and that of his wife, together with a fine retablo
-by Montañes; the other, founded by the hero’s son, Don Juan Alonso
-Perez de Guzman, contains his tomb, marked by a fine recumbent figure,
-and that of Doña Urraca Osorio, burnt by order of Pedro the Cruel. In
-the cloisters of the convent are some mural paintings of the fifteenth
-century, which though much damaged repay inspection.
-
-With the excursion to Italica the traveller should combine a visit
-to the Cartuja, more properly called Santa Maria de las Cuevas. It
-lies close to the suburb of Triana. The monastery was founded in the
-first decade of the fifteenth century, at the instance of the great
-Archbishop Gonzalo de Mena, and became the burying-place of the Ribera
-family, whose magnificent tombs are now to be seen in the University
-Church. Of the original structure only a little antique chapel remains.
-The refectory, chapter-hall, and cloisters all date from a restoration
-effected by the first Marqués de Tarifa in the sixteenth century. The
-building became, in 1839, the seat of the pottery manufacture of the
-(then) English firm of Pickman & Co. The establishment has produced
-some fine porcelain, and is worth inspection by all those interested
-in the ceramic art. Pottery has been associated from time immemorial
-with this locality and the adjoining suburb of Triana, and it will be
-remembered that the patron saints of Seville, Justa and Rufina, were,
-according to tradition, potters by trade.
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 1.
-
-General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West Side of the City.
-
-First View.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 2.
-
-General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West Side of the City.
-
-Second View.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 3.
-
-General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, East Side.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 4.
-
-General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, Central Part of the
-City.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 5.
-
-General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, North Side.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 6.
-
-Procession of the Conception of the Virgin passing through the Plaza de
-San Francisco.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 7.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 8.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 9.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 10.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 11.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 12.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 13.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 14.
-
-View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 15.
-
-Bridge over the Guadalquivir.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 16.
-
-Hercules Avenue.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 17.
-
-The Plaza Nueva.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 18.
-
-View of Triana from the Tower of Gold.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 19.
-
-General View from Triana.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 20.
-
-General View from Triana.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 21.
-
-The Tower of Gold from San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 22.
-
-A Street in Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 23.
-
-The Tower of Gold.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 24.
-
-Church of San Marcos, from the Palace of the Dueñas.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 25.
-
-Church of San Marcos.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 26.
-
-Court of the Hotel de Madrid.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 27.
-
-Hospital, with the Mosaics painted by Murillo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 28.
-
-Portal of the Convent of Santa Paula.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 29.
-
-Church of Santa Catalina.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 30.
-
-Church of Todos Santos.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 31.
-
-The Provincial Museum, with Murillo’s Statue.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 32.
-
-Statue of Murillo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 33.
-
-General View of the Town Hall.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 34.
-
-The Town Hall, Left Side.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 35.
-
-The Town Hall, Left Side, Detail of the Interior Angle.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 36.
-
-Door of the Town Hall.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 37.
-
-The Town Hall, Detail of the Principal Part.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 38.
-
-General View of the Town Hall.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 39.
-
-The Town Hall, Detail of the Façade.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 40.
-
-The Town Hall, Detail of the Principal Door.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 41.
-
-Window in the Town Hall.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 42.
-
-Principal Façade of the Tobacco Factory.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 43.
-
-The Tobacco Factory.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 44.
-
-Cigar Makers, Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 45.
-
-The “Sevillanas” Dance.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 46.
-
-Sevillian Costumes--A Courtyard.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 47.
-
-General View of the Exchange.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 48.
-
-Court in the Exchange.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 49.
-
-The Aceite Postern and Ancient Ramparts.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 50.
-
-The Roman Walls near the Gate of the Macarena.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 51.
-
-The Roman Amphitheatre of Italica.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 52.
-
-General View of the Palace of San Telmo from the River.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 53.
-
-Principal Portal of the San Telmo Palace.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 54.
-
-Interior of the Hall of Columns in the San Telmo Palace.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 55.
-
-Interior View of the Duke of Montpensier’s Study In San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 56.
-
-Various Objects found in the Sepulchres at San Telmo.
-
-(In the Palace of San Telmo.)]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 57.
-
-Palms in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 58.
-
-The Sepulchres of the Victims of Don Juan Tenorio in the Gardens of San
-Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 59.
-
-The Roman Sepulchres in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 60.
-
-View in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 61.
-
-The Aviary in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 62.
-
-The River in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 63.
-
-The Cocoa Tree and East Side of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 64.
-
-The Zapote, a Tree in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 65.
-
-The Island and River in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 66.
-
-The Yucca, a rare Tree in the Gardens of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 67.
-
-General View of the Hospital de la Sangre.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 68.
-
-Church of the Sagrario, North Side.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 69.
-
-Principal Façade of the Hospital de la Sangre.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 70.
-
-Porch of the Church of the Hospital de la Sangre.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 71.
-
-Bas-relief. Hospital de la Sangre, the Work of Torregiano.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 72.
-
-General View of the Exterior of the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 73.
-
-The Giralda, from the Patio de los Naranjos.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 74.
-
-The Top of the Giralda.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 75.
-
-The Dancing Choir Boys, Seville Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 76.
-
-Dancing Boys, Seville Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 77.
-
-The Gate of the Archbishop.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 78.
-
-Plaza de San Francisco, with the Giralda and Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 79.
-
-Plaza del Triunfo, the Cathedral, and the Exchange, from the Gate of
-the Lion.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 80.
-
-The Fête.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 81
-
-Gate of San Miguel in the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 82.
-
-Gate of the Cathedral called de las Campanillas.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 83.
-
-Gate of the Baptist in the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 84.
-
-The Gate of the Lizard in the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 85.
-
-General View of the Cathedral From the Tribune of the Principal Door.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 86.
-
-Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 87.
-
-Principal Entrance to the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 88.
-
-Interior View of the Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 89.
-
-The Gamba Chapel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 90.
-
-The Cathedral.
-
-The Gamba Chapel and Entrance to that of the Antigua.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 91.
-
-Chapels of the Conception and the Annunciation in the Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 92.
-
-The Cathedral.
-
-The Chapel of the Conception.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 93.
-
-The Cathedral.
-
-Detail of the High Altar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 94.
-
-The Cathedral.
-
-Retablo, or Altar-piece of the High Altar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 95.
-
-Iron Railings of the Lateral Part of the High Altar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 96.
-
-The Cathedral.
-
-Wrought Iron Screen in the Choir.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 97.
-
-The Cathedral.
-
-Wrought Iron Screen of the High Altar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 98.
-
-St Christopher carrying the Child Jesus, by Mateo Perez Alesio, in the
-Cathedral.].
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 99.
-
-San Fernando Square.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 100.
-
-Gardens of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 101.
-
-General View of the Gardens of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 102.
-
-View of the Gardens of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 103.
-
-General View of the Gardens of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 104.
-
-The Gardens of the Alcazar. Lake and Gallery of Don Pedro I. the
-Cruel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 105.
-
-The Gardens of the Alcazar. View of the Gallery of Don Pedro I., the
-Cruel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 106.
-
-The Hothouses in the Gardens of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 107.
-
-Calle de las Vedras in the Gardens of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 108.
-
-The Gardens of the Alcazar.
-
-Parterre of Doña Maria de Padilla.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 109.
-
-The Alcazar. Baths of Doña Maria de Padilla.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 110.
-
-Magnificent Altar in Faience painted in the 15th Century.
-
-In the Oratory of the Catholic Sovereigns in the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 111.
-
-Town Hall of Seville.
-
-Details of Doors and Balconies.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 112.
-
-Town Hall of Seville. Details.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 113.
-
-Parish Church of San Marcos.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 114.
-
-Various Towers of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 115.
-
-Details of the Mosaic commonly called El Grande.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 116.
-
-Sculpture and Details of Ancient Churches.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 117.
-
-Architectural Parts, Bas-reliefs, and Ceramic Objects.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 118.
-
-Façade of the Consistorial Houses.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 119.
-
-Entrance to the Alcazar, Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 120.
-
-Principal Façade of the Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 121.
-
-Gate of the Principal Entrance, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 122.
-
-Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 123.
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 124.
-
-Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 125.
-
-Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 126.
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 127.
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 128.
-
-Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 129.
-
-Upper Part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 130.
-
-Court of the Dolls from the Room of the Prince, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 131.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 132.
-
-Angle in the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 133.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 134.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 135.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 136.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 137.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 138.
-
-Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 139.
-
-Gallery on the Second Storey of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 140.
-
-Upper Part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 141.
-
-Upper Part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 142.
-
-Entrance to the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 143.
-
-Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 144.
-
-Front of the Sleeping Saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 145.
-
-Sleeping Saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 146.
-
-Intercolumniation, where Don Fadrique was Assassinated, Alcazar.
-
-Sultana’s Quarters, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 147.
-
-Room in which King St Ferdinand Died, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 148.
-
-Interior of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 149.
-
-Front of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 150.
-
-Gate of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 151.
-
-Gallery of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 152.
-
-Throne of Justice, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 153.
-
-Court of the Hundred Virgins, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 154.
-
-Court of the Virgins, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 155.
-
-General View of the Court of the Hundred Virgins, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 156.
-
-Court of the Virgins, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 157.
-
-Front of the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings and the Court of the
-Virgins, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 158.
-
-Gallery in the Court of the Virgins, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: Plate 159.
-
-The Court of the Virgins. Capital of the Door of the Hall of
-Ambassadors, Alcazar.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 160.
-
-The Alcazar.
-
-Court of the Virgins. Capital of the Gate of the Hall of Charles V.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 161.
-
-Palace of the Dueñas. Door of the Chapel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 162.
-
-Palace of the Dukes of Alcala, Commonly called Casa de Pilatos.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 163.
-
-The Court in the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 164.
-
-Court of the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 165.
-
-Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 166.
-
-House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 167.
-
-Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 168.
-
-Angle and Statue in the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 169.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Entrance to the Ante-room of the Chapel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 170.
-
-The Staircase in the House of Pilate, by Barrera.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 171.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Entrance Door of the Oratory.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 172.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Way out to the Flat Roofs in the High Gallery.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 173.
-
-Staircase in the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 174.
-
-House of Pilate. Doors of the Offices in the High Gallery.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 175.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Window of the Prætor’s Hall leading to the Garden.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 176.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Barred Window in the Prætor’s Garden.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 177.
-
-House of Pilate. Bolt on the Prætor’s Gate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 178.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Window in the Ante-room of the Chapel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 179.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Section of the Ceiling in the Prætor’s Hall.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 180.
-
-Palace of the Dueñas in Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 181.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Mosaics in the Hall of the Fountain.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 182.
-
-Palace of the Dueñas in Seville.
-
-Glazed Tiles in the Socles of the Chapel and Arches.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 183.
-
-Mosaic of the Peristyle in the Palace.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 184.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Mosaic in the Hall of the Fountain.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 185.
-
-Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 186.
-
-Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 187.
-
-Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 188.
-
-House of Pilate.
-
-Mosaic in the Chapel.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 189.
-
-Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
-
-BORN IN SEVILLE, 1617.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 190.
-
-Altar-screen of the La Gamba, by Luis de Vargas.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 191.
-
-Descent from the Cross, by Pedro Campaña.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 192.
-
-St Anthony of Padua visited by the Infant Saviour while kneeling at his
-Prayers, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 193.
-
-Our Lord Baptized by St John Baptist, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 194.
-
-The Guardian Angel, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 195.
-
-St Leander, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 196.
-
-St Isidore, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 197.
-
-St Ferdinand, Crowned and Robed, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 198.
-
-Madre Francisca Dorotea Villalda, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 199.
-
-St Anthony with the Infant Saviour, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 200.
-
-Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 201.
-
-Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 202.
-
-Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 203.
-
-Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 204.
-
-St Justa and St Rufina, Patron Saints of Seville, holding between them
-the Giralda Tower, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 205.
-
-St Bonaventure and St Leander, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 206.
-
-St Thomas of Villanueva giving Alms at the Door of his Cathedral, by
-Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 207.
-
-The Annunciation of our Lady, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 208.
-
-St Felix of Cantalisi restoring to Our Lady the Infant Saviour, whom
-she had placed in his Arms, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 209.
-
-Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 210.
-
-St Peter Nolasco kneeling before Our Lady of Mercy, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 211.
-
-The Deposition--St Francis of Assisi supporting the Body of Our Lord
-nailed by the Left Hand to the Cross, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 212.
-
-St Joseph and the Infant Saviour, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 213.
-
-St John the Baptist in the Desert leaning against a Rock, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 214.
-
-St Augustine and the Flaming Heart, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 215.
-
-St Felix of Cantalisi and the Infant Jesus, known as, “San Felix de Las
-Arrugas,” by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 216.
-
-St Anthony with the Infant Saviour, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 217.
-
-Deposition from the Cross, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM..]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 218.
-
-Our Lady with the Infant Saviour in her Arms, by Murillo.
-
-(AN EARLY PICTURE.)
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 219.
-
-Our Lady and the Infant Saviour, known as “La Virgen de la Servilleta,”
-by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 220.
-
-Our Lady seated, with the Infant Saviour in her Lap, by Murillo.
-
-(AN EARLY PICTURE.)
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 221.
-
-St Thomas of Aquin, by, Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 222.
-
-The Virgin of the Grotto, by Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 223.
-
-St Bruno talking to the Pope, by Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 224.
-
-The Day of Judgment, by Martin de Vos.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 225.
-
-Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by J. Valdes Leal.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 226.
-
-Jesus crowning St Joseph, by Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 227.
-
-The Devout Punyon, by Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 228.
-
-Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The Virgin surrounded by
-Cherubim. By Fr. Pacheco.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 229.
-
-Our Lord’s Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, by Murillo.
-
-SEVILLE HOSPITAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 230.
-
-Moses striking the Rock in Horeb, by Murillo.
-
-LA CARIDAD, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 231.
-
-St John of God, sinking under the Weight of a Sick Man, assisted by an
-Angel, by Murillo.
-
-LA CARIDAD, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 232.
-
-The Death of St Hermenigild, by J. de las Roelas.
-
-HOSPITAL DE LA SANGRE, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 233.
-
-The Apostleship, by Juan de las Roelas.
-
-HOSPITAL DE LA SANGRE, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 234.
-
-The End of this World’s Glories, by Valdes Leal.
-
-LA CARIDAD, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 235.
-
-The Pietà, or the Virgin supporting the Dead Body of her Divine Son,
-Altar-screen, by Luis de Vargas.
-
-SANTA MARIA DE LA BLANCA, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 236.
-
-St Joseph holding the Infant Saviour in His Arms, by Murillo.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 237.
-
-Our Lady of the Girdle, by Murillo.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 238.
-
-Portrait of Ferdinand VII., by Goya.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 239.
-
-Portrait of Charles IV., by Goya.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 240.
-
-The Annunciation, by F. Zurbarán.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 241.
-
-The Death of Laocoön and his Sons at the Siege of Troy, by El Greco.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 242.
-
-Caton of Utique tearing open his wounds, by Josef Ribera.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 243.
-
-Pietà. The Virgin holding the Dead Saviour in her Arms, by Morales.
-
-SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 244.
-
-Portrait of El Greco, by Himself.
-
-GALLERY OF SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 245.
-
-The Miracle of St Vœu. St Hugo in the Refectory with several Chartreux,
-by Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 246.
-
-The Martyrdom of St Andrew, by J. de las Roelas.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 247.
-
-The Last Supper, by P. de Cespedes.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 248.
-
-Christ on the Cross, by Zurbarán.
-
-SEVILLE MUSEUM.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 249.
-
-Portrait of the Figure in Pacheco’s Picture at Seville, supposed to
-represent Cervantes.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 250.
-
-The Virgin and the Child Jesus, by Alonso Cano.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 251.
-
-The Descent from the Cross, by Alejo Fernandez.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 252.
-
-The Cathedral.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 253.
-
-The Giralda.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 254.
-
-The Giralda.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 255.
-
-Cathedral. The Gate of Pardon.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 256.
-
-Cathedral. Puerta de los Palos.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 257.
-
-SEVILLE CATHEDRAL
-
-_Specially drawn for The Spanish Series_]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 258.
-
-Cathedral. View of an Organ.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 259.
-
-Cathedral. Monument to Columbus.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 260.
-
-Cathedral. Silver Tabernacle (weighing 45 arrobas).]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 261.
-
-Alcazar Gardens.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 262.
-
-Alcazar Gardens.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 263.
-
-Alcazar Gardens.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 264.
-
-House of Pilate. The Goddess Ceres.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 265.
-
-House of Pilate. The Goddess Pallas Pacifer.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 266.
-
-Italica.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 267.
-
-Roman Walls.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 268.
-
-Patio de Banderas and the Giralda.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 269.
-
-Plaza de San Francisco.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 270.
-
-St Mark’s Church.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 271.
-
-Plaza de San Fernando.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 272.
-
-The Town Hall. Details of the Old Part.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 273.
-
-Façade of the Palace of San Telmo.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 274.
-
-Statue of Velaquez.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 275.
-
-Plaza de la Constitución.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 276.
-
-Plaza de la Constitución.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 277.
-
-Calle de Sierpes.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 278.
-
-Calle de Sierpes.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 279.
-
-A Street in Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 280.
-
-Hercules Avenue.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 281.
-
-The Pasadera.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 282.
-
-Courtyard of La Caridad.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 283.
-
-Plaza de San Fernando.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 284.
-
-Plaza de Gavidia.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 285.
-
-View from the Pasadera.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 286.
-
-The Drive.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 287.
-
-Paseo de las Delicias.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 288.
-
-The Quay.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 289.
-
-Partial View of Seville.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 290.
-
-Plaza de Toros.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 291.
-
-Fields of San Sebastian.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 292.
-
-Park of Maria Luisa.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 293.
-
-Railway Station of M.Z.A. Principal Façade.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 294.
-
-Railway Station of M.Z.A. General View.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 295.
-
-Triana Bridge.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 296.
-
-View from Triana Bridge.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 297.
-
-View from Triana.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 298.
-
-San Telmo from Triana.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 299.
-
-The Cathedral. Our Lord Crucified. Sculpture in the Sacristy.]
-
-[Illustration: PLATE 300.
-
-SEVILLE
-
-_Specially drawn for The Spanish Series_]
-
-
-FOOTNOTES:
-
-[A] There is one picture only by Roelas in the Prado. His work is
-hardly known outside Seville. In England we have at least one of his
-pictures, a fine example, in a private collection.
-
-[B] There is a picture by El Greco, the wonderful portrait of himself,
-in the Museum. It came quite recently from the Palace of San Telmo,
-where also was once the really grand picture, “The Death of Laocoön
-and his Sons at the Siege of Troy.” The remarkable and interesting
-“Trinity” in the Cathedral, attributed to El Greco, is the work of
-his pupil Luis Tristan, a painter neglected too long. Seville has
-no picture by Navarrete; the one work of Morales, the triptych in
-the Sacristiá de los Calices of the Cathedral, is not typical of his
-strange power.
-
-[C] The most important is the “Adoration of the Shepherds,” until
-recently in the Palace of San Telmo; but this work has been removed
-with other pictures in the collection of the Infanta Maria Luisa
-Fernanda de Bourbon. The really fine picture on the same subject in our
-National Gallery is now attributed to Zurbarán; probably to him, too,
-belongs the “Dead Warrior,” now assigned to Velazquez.
-
-
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-<p class="c"><a href="#ILLUSTRATIONS">List of Illustrations</a><br /> <span class="nonvis">(In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers]
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_i" id="page_i">{i}</a></span></p>
-
-<p class="c">THE SPANISH SERIES</p>
-
-
-<p class="c">S E V I L L E
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_ii" id="page_ii">{ii}</a></span>&nbsp;</p>
-
-<div class="bxx">
-<p class="c">THE SPANISH SERIES<br /><br />
-<small><i>EDITED BY ALBERT F. CALVERT</i></small></p>
-
-<table summary="">
-<tr><td>
-<span class="smcap">Murillo</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Spanish Arms and Armour</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">The Escorial</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Cordova</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Seville</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">The Prado</span><br />
-</td></tr>
-<tr><td><i>In Preparation</i></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td>
-<span class="smcap">Goya</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Granada and Alhambra</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Velazquez</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Toledo</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Royal Palaces of Spain</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Madrid</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Leon, Burgos and Salamanca</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia,<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; Zamora, Avila &amp; Zaragoza</span><br />
-</td></tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_iii" id="page_iii">{iii}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h1><span class="redd">
-SEVILLE</span></h1>
-
-<div class="pt">
-<div class="ptt">AN &nbsp; HISTORICAL &nbsp; AND &nbsp; DE-<br />SCRIPTIVE&nbsp;
-&nbsp; ACCOUNT &nbsp; OF<br />
-“THE PEARL OF ANDALUSIA”<br />
-BY &nbsp; ALBERT &nbsp; F. &nbsp; CALVERT<br />
-WITH &nbsp;&nbsp;300&nbsp;&nbsp; ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
-</div></div>
-
-<p class="c"><span class="redd">LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD</span><br />
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_iv" id="page_iv">{iv}</a></span>
-NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMVII<br />
-<br /><br /><small>
-TURNBULL AND SPEARS. PRINTERS, EDINBURGH</small><br />
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_v" id="page_v">{v}</a></span>&nbsp; </p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">There</span> is a charm and compelling fascination about Seville which produces
-in the traveller visiting the city for the first time a sensation of
-physical ecstasy. The spell of the Pearl of Andalusia is instant and
-enduring; I have not met a man or woman proof against its witchery.
-George Borrow shed tears of rapture as he beheld Seville from the
-Cristina Promenade, and “listened to the thrush and the nightingale
-piping forth their melodious songs in the woods, and inhaled the breeze
-laden with the perfume of its thousand orange gardens.” The Moors left
-their beloved capital at the height of its prosperity, in the full
-flower of its beauty; change has not affected its material importance,
-and time has not staled its infinite variety. A Christian Cathedral now
-stands on the foundation of the great mosque of Abu Yakub Yusuf; but the
-Moorish Giralda, the most expressive monument of the Mohammedan
-occupation, still beckons the distant traveller onwards to the promised
-land; the Alcazar breathes the spirit of its Oriental masters; and the
-shim<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vi" id="page_vi">{vi}</a></span>mering Torre del Oro still reflects the light of the setting sun
-upon the broad bosom of the rose-coloured river.</p>
-
-<p>The history of Seville from the time of its subjugation by Musa is a
-volume of romance; its pages are illumined by the cold light of flashing
-steel and stained with the blood of tyrants, traitors, and innocent men;
-but it forms a chronicle which the reader will follow with absorbing
-interest. The more exacting student will satisfy his thirst for
-knowledge in Dr Dozy’s “History of the Mohammedans of Spain,” in
-Gayangos’ translation of El Makkari’s “History of the Mohammedan
-Dynasties in Spain,” in Coppee’s “History of the Conquest of Spain,” and
-Pedro de Madrazo’s “Sevilla”&mdash;to refer to only a few of the many learned
-works that have been published on the subject. Many will continue to be
-content with the few pages of Notes which appear in the various Spanish
-Guides; but a certain section, it is hoped, of the English travelling
-public, will find in this book an album, a handbook, and a history which
-will supply a long-felt want.</p>
-
-<p>In my attempt to produce a volume which will appeal both to the artist
-and the tourist, to the archæologist as well as the least imaginative
-sightseer, I have reproduced a number of illustrations<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vii" id="page_vii">{vii}</a></span> which may
-incline some persons to accuse me of a superabundant regard for detail.
-It is true that many pages are devoted to intricacies of decoration
-which the general reader may find of small interest, but my object in
-multiplying this detail is to satisfy the requirements of those who
-would fathom the mystery of Moslem art. When I was first in Granada I
-inquired for pictures of the minutiæ of many choice examples of design,
-and, failing to obtain anything of the kind, I had to employ a local
-artist to make sketches of the detail of the mosaics. That experience
-determined me, in treating of these Mohammedan cities of Spain, to
-include those reproductions for which I had searched in vain, and to
-make my illustrations, as far as possible, the last word on the subject
-of Arabian architecture and ornament.</p>
-
-<p>For the historical portion of the letterpress I have laid under tribute
-the authorities already mentioned, and I have also to acknowledge the
-assistance received in the compilation from Mr E. B. d’Auvergne.</p>
-
-<p>A large number of the photographs included here were supplied by Messrs
-Rafael Garzon and Senan &amp; Gonzalez of Granada, Hauser &amp; Menet of Madrid,
-Ernst Wasmuth of Berlin, publisher of Uhde’s “Baudenkmaeler in Spanien
-und Portugal,”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_viii" id="page_viii">{viii}</a></span> and Eugen Twietmayer of Leipzig, publisher of
-Junghandel’s “Die Baukunst Spaniens,” and my thanks are due to them for
-the courteous permission to reproduce their work in this volume.</p>
-
-<p>Some of the illustrations are reproductions of pictures which were at
-one time in the San Telmo Collection. As that collection has been
-distributed I have been unable to trace the originals, but as they were
-so closely identified with Seville I make no apology for including them.</p>
-
-<p class="r">
-A. F. C.<br />
-</p>
-
-<p class="hang">
-“<span class="smcap">Royston</span>,”<br />
-<span class="smcap">Swiss Cottage</span>,<br />
-&nbsp; &nbsp; N.W.<br />
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_ix" id="page_ix">{ix}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
-<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><small>PAGE</small></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#SEVILLE">SEVILLE</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_1">1</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#MOORISH_SEVILLE">MOORISH SEVILLE</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_5">5</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#SEVILLE_UNDER_THE_CASTILIAN_KINGS">SEVILLE UNDER THE CASTILIAN KINGS</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_35">35</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#THE_ALCAZAR">THE ALCAZAR</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_45">45</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#THE_CATHEDRAL">THE CATHEDRAL</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_69">69</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#OTHER_BUILDINGS_OF_THE_FIFTEENTH_AND_SIXTEENTH_CENTURIES">OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_89">89</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#BUILDINGS_OF_THE_SEVENTEENTH_AND_EIGHTEENTH_CENTURIES">BUILDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_101">101</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#THE_PAINTERS_OF_SEVILLE">THE PAINTERS OF SEVILLE</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_107">107</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" class="pdd"><a href="#THE_OLD_ROMAN_CITY">THE OLD ROMAN CITY</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#page_135">135</a></td></tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_x" id="page_x">{x}</a></span>&nbsp; </p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xi" id="page_xi">{xi}</a></span>&nbsp; </p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="ILLUSTRATIONS" id="ILLUSTRATIONS"></a>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
-
-<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""
-style="margin:auto auto;max-width:85%;">
-<tr><td><small>TITLE</small></td>
-<td><small>PLATE</small></td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_1">General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West side of the City. First view</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_1">1</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_2">General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West side of the City. Second view</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_2">2</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_3">General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, East side</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_3">3</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_4">General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, Central part of the City</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_4">4</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_5">General view of Seville from the Giralda Tower, North side</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_5">5</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_6">Procession of the Conception of the Virgin passing through the Plaza de San Francisco</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_6">6</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_7">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_7">7</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_8">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_8">8</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_9">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_9">9</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_10">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_10">10</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_11">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_11">11</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_12">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_12">12</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_13">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_13">13</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_14">View of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_14">14</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_15">Bridge over the Guadalquivir</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_15">15</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_16">Hercules Avenue</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_16">16</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_17">The Plaza Nueva</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_17">17</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_18">View of Triana from the Tower of Gold</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_18">18</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_19">View of Seville from Triana</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_19">19</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_20">View of Seville from Triana</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_20">20</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_21">The Tower of Gold from San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_21">21</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_22">A street in Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_22">22</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_23">The Tower of Gold</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_23">23</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xii" id="page_xii">{xii}</a></span></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_24">Church of San Marcos, from the Palace of the Dueñas</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_24">24</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_25">Church of San Marcos</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_25">25</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_26">Court of the Hotel de Madrid</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_26">26</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_27">Hospital, with the Mosaics painted by Murillo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_27">27</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_28">Portal of the Convent of Santa Paula</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_28">28</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_29">Church of Santa Catalina</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_29">29</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_30">Church of Todos Santos</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_30">30</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_31">The Provincial Museum, with Murillo’s statue</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_31">31</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_32">Statue of Murillo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_32">32</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_33">General view of the Town Hall</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_33">33</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_34">The Town Hall, left side</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_34">34</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_35">The Town Hall, left side, detail of the interior angle</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_35">35</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_36">Door of the Town Hall</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_36">36</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_37">The Town Hall, detail of the principal part</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_37">37</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_38">General view of the Town Hall</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_38">38</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_39">The Town Hall, detail of the façade</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_39">39</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_40">The Town Hall, detail of the principal door</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_40">40</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_41">41</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_42">42</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_43">The Tobacco Factory</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_43">43</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_44">44</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_45">45</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_46">Sevillian Costumes&mdash;A Courtyard</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_46">46</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_47">General view of the Exchange</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_47">47</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_48">Court in the Exchange</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_48">48</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_49">The Aceite Postern and ancient ramparts</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_49">49</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_50">The Roman walls near the gate of the Macarena</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_50">50</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_51">The Roman Amphitheatre of Italica</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_51">51</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_52">General view of the Palace of San Telmo from the River</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_52">52</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_53">53</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_54">Interior of the Hall of Columns in the San Telmo Palace</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_54">54</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_55">55</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_56">Various objects found in the sepulchres at San Telmo.<br />
-(In the Palace of San Telmo)</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_56">56</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_57">Palms in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_57">57</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_58">The sepulchres of the victims of Don Juan Tenorio in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_58">58</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xiii" id="page_xiii">{xiii}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_59">The Roman Sepulchres in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_59">59</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_60">View in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_60">60</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_61">The Aviary in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_61">61</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_62">The River in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_62">62</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_63">The Cocoa Tree and east side of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_63">63</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_64">The Zapote, a tree in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_64">64</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_65">The Island and River in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_65">65</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_66">The Yucca, a rare tree in the Gardens of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_66">66</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_67">General view of the Hospital de la Sangre</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_67">67</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_68">Church of the Sagrario, north side</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_68">68</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_69">Principal façade of the Hospital de la Sangre</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_69">69</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_70">Porch of the Church of the Hospital de la Sangre</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_70">70</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_71">Bas-relief, Hospital de la Sangre, the work of Torregiano</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_71">71</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_72">General view of the exterior of the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_72">72</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_73">The Giralda, from the Patio de los Naranjos</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_73">73</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_74">The top of the Giralda</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_74">74</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_75">The Dancing Choir-boys, Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_75">75</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_76">Dancing-boys, Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_76">76</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_77">The Gate of the Archbishop</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_77">77</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_78">Plaza de San Francisco, with the Giralda and Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_78">78</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_79">Plaza del Triunfo, the Cathedral, and the Exchange, from the Gate of the Lion</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_79">79</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_80">The Fête</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_80">80</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_81">Gate of San Miguel in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_81">81</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_82">Gate of the Cathedral called de las Campanillas</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_82">82</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_83">Gate of the Baptist in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_83">83</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_84">The Gate of the Lizard in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_84">84</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_85">General view of the Cathedral from the Tribune of the principal door</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_85">85</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_86">Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_86">86</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_87">Principal Entrance to the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_87">87</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_88">Interior view of the Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_88">88</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_89">The Gamba Chapel</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_89">89</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_90">The Cathedral, the Gamba Chapel, and entrance to that of the Antigua</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_90">90</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_91">Chapels of the Conception and the Annunciation in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_91">91</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xiv" id="page_xiv">{xiv}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_92">The Cathedral. The Chapel of the Conception</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_92">92</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_93">The Cathedral. Detail of the High Altar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_93">93</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_94">The Cathedral. Retablo, or altar-piece of the High Altar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_94">94</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_95">Iron railings of the lateral part of the High Altar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_95">95</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_96">The Cathedral. Wrought-iron screen in the Choir</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_96">96</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_97">The Cathedral. Wrought-iron screen of the High Altar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_97">97</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_98">St Christopher carrying the Child Jesus, by Mateo Perez Alesio, in the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_98">98</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_99">San Fernando Square</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_99">99</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_100">Gardens of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_100">100</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_101">General view of the Gardens of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_101">101</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_102">View of the Gardens of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_102">102</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_103">General view of the Gardens of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_103">103</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_104">The Gardens of the Alcazar. Lake and Gallery of Don Pedro I., the Cruel</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_104">104</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_105">The Gardens of the Alcazar. View of the Gallery of Don Pedro I., the Cruel</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_105">105</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_106">The Hothouses in the Gardens of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_106">106</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_107">Calle de las Vedras in the Gardens of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_107">107</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_108">The Gardens of the Alcazar. Parterre of Doña Maria de Padilla</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_108">108</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_109">The Alcazar. Baths of Doña Maria de Padilla</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_109">109</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_110">Magnificent altar in faience, painted in the fifteenth century. (In the Oratory of the Catholic Sovereigns in the Alcazar.)</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_110">110</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_111">Town Hall of Seville. Details of doors and balconies</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_111">111</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_112">Town Hall of Seville. Details</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_112">112</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_113">Parish Church of San Marcos</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_113">113</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_114">Various Towers of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_114">114</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_115">Details of the Mosaic commonly called El Grande</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_115">115</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_116">Sculpture and details of ancient churches</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_116">116</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_117">Architectural parts, bas-reliefs, and ceramic objects</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_117">117</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_118">Façade of the Consistorial houses</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_118">118</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_119">Entrance to the Alcazar, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_119">119</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_120">Principal Façade of the Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_120">120</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_121">Gate of the principal entrance, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_121">121</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_122">Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_122">122</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_123">Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_123">123</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_124">Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_124">124</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xv" id="page_xv">{xv}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_125">Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_125">125</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_126">Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_126">126</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_127">Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_127">127</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_128">Hall of Ambassadors. Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_128">128</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_129">Upper part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_129">129</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_130">Court of the Dolls from the Room of the Prince, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_130">130</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_131">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_131">131</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_132">Angle in the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_132">132</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_133">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_133">133</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_134">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_134">134</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_135">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_135">135</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_136">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_136">136</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_137">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_137">137</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_138">Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_138">138</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_139">Gallery on the second storey of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_139">139</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_140">Upper part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_140">140</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_141">Upper part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_141">141</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_142">Entrance to the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_142">142</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_143">Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_143">143</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_144">Front of the sleeping-saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_144">144</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_145">Sleeping-saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_145">145</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_146-a">Intercolumniation, where Don Fadrique was assassinated, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_146-a">146</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_146-b">Sultana’s Quarters, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_146-b">146</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_147">Room in which King St Ferdinand died, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_147">147</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_148">148</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_149">149</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_150">150</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_151">Gallery of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_151">151</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_152">Throne of Justice, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_152">152</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_154">154</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_155">155</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_156">Court of the Virgins, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_156">156</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_157">157</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xvi" id="page_xvi">{xvi}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_158">158</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_159">The Court of the Virgins, Capital of the door of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_159">159</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_160">160</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_161">161</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_162">162</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_163">The Court in the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_163">163</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_164">Court of the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_164">164</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_165">Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_165">165</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_166">166</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_167">Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_167">167</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_168">168</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_169">169</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_170">170</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_171">House of Pilate. Entrance door of the Oratory</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_171">171</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_172">House of Pilate. Way out to the flat roofs in the High Gallery</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_172">172</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_173">173</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_174">House of Pilate. Doors of the officers in the High Gallery</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_174">174</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_175">175</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_176">House of Pilate. Barred window in the Prætor’s Garden</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_176">176</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_177">177</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_178">178</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_179">House of Pilate. Section of the ceiling in the Prætor’s Hall</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_179">179</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_180">180</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_181">House of Pilate. Mosaics in the Hall of the Fountain</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_181">181</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_182">182</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_183">183</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_184">House of Pilate. Mosaic in the Hall of the Fountain</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_184">184</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_185">Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_185">185</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xvii" id="page_xvii">{xvii}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_186">Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_186">186</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_187">Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_187">187</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_188">House of Pilate. Mosaic in the Chapel</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_188">188</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_189">189</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_190">Altar-screen of the La Gamba, by Luis de Vargas. Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_190">190</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_191">“Descent from the Cross,” by Pedro Campaña, Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_191">191</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_192">“St Anthony of Padua visited by the Infant Saviour while kneeling at his prayers,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_192">192</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_193">193</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_194">“The Guardian Angel,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_194">194</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_195">“St Leander,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_195">195</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_196">“St Isidore,” by Murillo. Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_196">196</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_197">197</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_198">198</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_199">199</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_200">200</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_201">“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_201">201</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_202">“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_202">202</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_203">203</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_204">204</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_205">205</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_206">206</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_207">“The Annunciation of Our Lady,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_207">207</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xviii" id="page_xviii">{xviii}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_208">“St Felix of Cantalisi, restoring to Our Lady the Infant Saviour, whom she had placed in his arms,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_208">208</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_209">“Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_209">209</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_210">210</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_211">“The Deposition,&mdash;St Francis of Assisi supporting the body of Our Lord nailed by the left hand to the Cross,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_211">211</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_212">212</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_213">213</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_214">214</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_215">215</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_216">“St Anthony with the Infant Saviour,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_216">216</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_217">“Deposition from the Cross,” by Murillo. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_217">217</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_218">218</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_219">219</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_220">220</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_221">221</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_222">“The Virgin of the Grotto,” by Zurbarán. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_222">222</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_223">223</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_224">224</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xix" id="page_xix">{xix}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_225">“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” by J. Valdes Leal. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_225">225</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_226">226</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_227">227</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_228">“Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,” the Virgin surrounded by Cherubim, by Fr. Pacheco. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_228">228</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_229">229</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_230">230</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_231">“St John of God, sinking under the weight of a sick man, assisted by an Angel,” by Murillo. La Caridad, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_231">231</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_232">“The Death of St Hermenigild” by J. de las Roelas. Hospital de la Sangre, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_232">232</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_233">“The Apostleship,” by Juan de las Roelas. Hospital de la Sangre, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_233">233</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_234">234</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_235">235</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_236">“St Joseph, holding the Infant Saviour in his arms,” by Murillo. San Telmo, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_236">236</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_237">“Our Lady of the Girdle,” by Murillo, San Telmo, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_237">237</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_238">238</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_239">“Portrait of Charles IV.,” by Goya. San Telmo, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_239">239</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_240">“The Annunciation,” by F. Zurbarán. San Telmo, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_240">240</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_241">“The Death of Laocoon and his Sons at the Siege of Troy,” by El Greco. San Telmo, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_241">241</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_242">242</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xx" id="page_xx">{xx}</a></span></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_243">“Pietà. The Virgin holding the dead Saviour in her arms,” by Morales. San Telmo, Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_243">243</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_244">244</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_245">245</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_246">“The Martyrdom of St Andrew,” by J. de las Roelas. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_246">246</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_247">247</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_248">“Christ on the Cross,” by Zurbarán. Seville Museum</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_248">248</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_249">249</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_250">“The Virgin and the Child Jesus,” by Alonso Cano. Seville Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_250">250</a></td></tr>
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-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_251">251</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_252">The Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_252">252</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_253">The Giralda</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_253">253</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_254">The Giralda</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_254">254</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_255">Cathedral. The Gate of Pardon</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_255">255</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_256">Cathedral. Puerta de los Palos</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_256">256</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_257">Plan of the Cathedral</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_257">257</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_258">Cathedral. View of an organ</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_258">258</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_259">Cathedral. Monument to Columbus</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_259">259</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_260">Cathedral. Silver Tabernacle (weighing forty-five arrobas)</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_260">260</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_261">Alcazar Gardens</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_261">261</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_262">Alcazar Gardens</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_262">262</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_263">Alcazar Gardens</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_263">263</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_264">House of Pilate. The Goddess Ceres</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_264">264</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_265">House of Pilate. The Goddess Pallas Pacifer</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_265">265</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_266">Italica</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_266">266</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_267">Roman Walls</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_267">267</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_268">Patio de Banderas and the Giralda</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_268">268</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_269">Plaza de San Francisco</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_269">269</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_270">St Mark’s Church</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_270">270</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_271">Plaza de San Fernando</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_271">271</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_272">The Town Hall. Details of the old part</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_272">272</a><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xxi" id="page_xxi">{xxi}</a></span></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_273">Façade of the Palace of San Telmo</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_273">273</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_274">Statue of Velazquez</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_274">274</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_275">Plaza de la Constitución</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_275">275</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_276">Plaza de la Constitución</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_276">276</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_277">Calle de Sierpes</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_277">277</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_278">Calle de Sierpes</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_278">278</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_279">A street in Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_279">279</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_280">Hercules Avenue</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_280">280</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_281">The Pasadera</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_281">281</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_282">Courtyard of La Caridad</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_282">282</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_283">Plaza de San Fernando</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_283">283</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_284">Plaza de Gavidia</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_284">284</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_285">View from the Pasadera</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_285">285</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_286">The Drive</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_286">286</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_287">Paseo de las Delicias</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_287">287</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_288">The Quay</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_288">288</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_289">Partial view of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_289">289</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_290">Plaza de Toros</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_290">290</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_291">Fields of San Sebastian</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_291">291</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_292">Park of Maria Luisa</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_292">292</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_293">Railway Station of M.Z.A. Principal Façade</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_293">293</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_294">Railway Station of M.Z.A. General View</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_294">294</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_295">Triana Bridge</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_295">295</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_296">View from Triana Bridge</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_296">296</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_297">View from Triana</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_297">297</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_298">San Telmo from Triana</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_298">298</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_299">The Cathedral. Our Lord Crucified. Sculpture in the Sacristy</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_299">299</a></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td class="pdd" valign="top"><a href="#plt_300">Plan of Seville</a></td>
-<td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#plt_300">300</a></td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xxii" id="page_xxii">{xxii}</a></span>&nbsp; </p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_1" id="page_1">{1}</a></span>&nbsp; </p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="SEVILLE" id="SEVILLE"></a>SEVILLE</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">Seville</span> is the most Spanish of the cities of Spain. On her white walls
-the sunlight plays perpetually, the air is laden with the scent of the
-orange, the sound of the guitar and castanets is heard continually in
-the narrow streets. This is the South of romance, the South of which
-northerners dream and towards which so many of them are drawn by an
-irresistible fascination. The cities of Leon and Castile are grim and
-Gothic. Cordova is Moorish; but Seville is not essentially one nor the
-other, but presents that blending of both styles which makes her
-typical, which stands for all that Spain means to the average foreigner.</p>
-
-<p>Seville lives. Cordova is dead, and Granada broods over her past. These
-are cemeteries of a vanished civilisation. Alone among the ancient seats
-of Moorish dominion, Seville has maintained her prosperity. Her wharves,
-as in the days of Al Mansûr, are still the resort of sailors from many
-lands. There is still wealth in her palaces and genius in her schools.
-To-day she holds the first<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_2" id="page_2">{2}</a></span> place in native art, and Garcia y Ramos,
-Sanchez Perrier, Jimenez Aranda, and Bilbao not unworthily continue the
-traditions of Murillo and Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>The city is Moorish, but informed throughout with the spirit of Spain.
-In Cordova the Spaniard seems a stranger; in Seville he has assimilated
-and adapted all that was bequeathed by his onetime rulers till you might
-think the place had always been his. It is as though the glowing metal
-of Andalusian life and temper had been poured into a mould made
-expressly by other hands to receive it. Thus Seville has not died nor
-decayed like her rivals. Her vitality intoxicates the northerner. Valdés
-says, “Seville has ever been for me the symbol of light, the city of
-love and joy.”</p>
-
-<p>In my book, “Moorish Remains in Spain,” I have sketched the history of
-the city and briefly referred to its importance under the Roman sway.
-With the few monuments remaining from that time I do not purpose dealing
-separately&mdash;incorporated as they have been, for the most part, with
-works of more recent construction. Nor has Roman influence left very
-profound traces in Seville, any more than in the rest of Spain. Señor
-Rafael Contreras justly remarks that Roman<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_3" id="page_3">{3}</a></span> civilisation made no deep
-impression on the country or the people. “We have in Spain,” he
-continues, “aqueducts, bridges, circuses, baths, roads, vases, urns,
-milliaria, statues, and jewellery. Specimens are still found, but,
-strictly speaking, art with us has never been either Roman or Greek.”
-And Seville, in particular, even during the Roman occupation, was rather
-a Punic than a Latin town. As to the successors of the Cæsars&mdash;the
-Visigoths&mdash;to them can only be ascribed a few capitals and stone
-ornaments, roughly executed in the Byzantine style. These, like the
-Roman remains, were used by the Moors in the construction of those
-buildings that have determined the physiognomy of Seville.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_5" id="page_5">{5}</a></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4">{4}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="MOORISH_SEVILLE" id="MOORISH_SEVILLE"></a>MOORISH SEVILLE</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">Seville</span> was not among the spoils of Tarik, conqueror at the Guadalete.
-That general having directed his march upon Toledo, it was reserved to
-his superior officer, Musa Ben Nosseyr, to subdue the proudest city of
-Bætica. The citizens held out for a month and then retired upon Beja in
-Alemtejo. The Arabian commander left a garrison in the city,
-henceforward to be known for five hundred and thirty-six years as
-Ishbiliyah, and pushed forward to Merida. The Sevillians took advantage
-of his absence to shake off his yoke, assisted by the people of Beja and
-Niebla. Their triumph was short lived. Abdelasis, son of Musa, fell upon
-them like a thunderbolt, extinguished the rising in blood, and made the
-city the seat of government of the newly acquired provinces.</p>
-
-<p>The interesting personality and tragic fate of Seville’s first Viceroy
-have made the site of his residence a question of some importance. It
-was formerly believed that he occupied the Acropolis<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6">{6}</a></span> or Citadel,
-supposed then to be covered by the Alcazar. The researches of Señores
-Gayangos and Madrazo have made it plain, however, that he established
-his headquarters in a church which had been dedicated by the sister of
-St Isidore to the martyrs Rufina and Justa, now amalgamated with the
-convent of La Trinidad. Adjacent to this building Abdelasis erected a
-mosque; and it was within its walls, while reciting the first surah of
-the Koran, that he was assassinated by the emissaries of the Khalif of
-Damascus&mdash;death being a not uncommon reward in the Middle Ages for too
-brilliant military services rendered to one’s sovereign.</p>
-
-<p>The seat of government was transferred, soon after the murder of the son
-of Musa, to Cordova, and Seville sank for a time to a subsidiary rank.
-The various cities of Andalusia were allotted by the governor Abdelmelic
-among the different Syrian peoples who had flocked over on the news of
-the conquest; and Ishbiliyah, according to Señor de Madrazo, was
-assigned to the citizens of Horns, the classic Emesa. Owing to
-intermarriage between the conquerors and the natives, the distinction
-between the Moslems according to the places of origin of these early
-settlers was soon lost in that drawn between the pure-blooded Arabs<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7">{7}</a></span> and
-the Muwallads or half-breeds. In the meantime the germs of Arabian
-culture had fallen upon a kindly soil, and a new school of art and
-letters was in process of formation in Spain. The imposing monuments of
-Roman, Greek, and Byzantine civilisation, which the victorious hosts of
-Islam found ever in their path, were not without influence upon their
-conceptions of the beautiful in form. The fusion of the Hispano-Goths
-and Arabs likewise tended to produce a commingling of spirit, and
-ultimately to give birth to an art and a culture racy of the soil.
-“According to all contemporary writers,” says Señor Rafael Contreras,
-“it is beyond all doubt that the style which the artists of the
-Renaissance called Moorish (in the sense of originating in Northern
-Africa) was never anything of the sort. The details so much admired on
-account of their richness, the vaultings and the arched hollows
-practised in the walls, the festoons of the arches, the <i>commarajias</i>
-and <i>alicates</i>, were Spanish works finer and more delicate than those of
-the East. The root was originally in Arabia, but it was happily
-transplanted to Spain, where blossomed that beautiful flower which
-diffuses its perfume after a lapse of seven centuries.”</p>
-
-<p>Under the Western Khalifate, Seville flourished<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_8" id="page_8">{8}</a></span> in spite of the
-assaults and internecine warfare of which it was frequently the theatre.
-When in 888 Andalusia became temporarily split up into several nominally
-independent states, the city acknowledged the sway of Ibrahim Ibn
-Hajjaj. The chronicler Ben Hayán, often quoted by Señor de Madrazo,
-describes this prince as keeping up imperial state and riding forth
-attended by five hundred horsemen. He ventured to assume the <i>tiraz</i>,
-the official garb of the Amirs of Cordova. To his court flocked the
-poets, the singers, and the wise men of Islam. Of him it was written,
-“In all the West I find no right noble man save Ibrahim, but he is
-nobility itself. When one has known the delight of living with him, to
-dwell in any other land is misery.” Flattery did not blind the sagacious
-Ibn Hajjaj to the insecurity of his position, and he bowed before the
-rising star of the new Khalifa, Abd-er-Rahman III. In 913 Ishbiliyah
-opened her gates to that powerful ruler and again became subject to
-Cordova. The city lost nothing by its timely submission. The generous
-and beneficent Khalifa narrowed and deepened the channel of the
-Guadalquivir, thus rendering it navigable. He introduced the palm tree
-from Africa, planted gardens, and adorned the city with splendid<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_9" id="page_9">{9}</a></span>
-edifices. Much of the splendour of the Court of Cordova was reflected on
-Seville, which certainly rivalled the capital as a seat of learning.
-Among its citizens was Abu Omar Ahmed Ben Abdallah, surnamed <i>El Begi</i>
-or “the Sage,” the author of an encyclopædia of sciences, which was long
-esteemed as a work of marvellous erudition. According to Condé, Abdallah
-was frequently consulted by the magistrates, even in his early youth, in
-affairs of the gravest import.</p>
-
-<p>The public edifices of the Pearl of Andalusia were no doubt worthy of
-its fame as a home of wisdom and culture. In addition to the mosque
-built by Abdelasis, near or on the spot where the convent of La Trinidad
-now stands, a notable ornament of the city was the mosque raised on the
-site of the basilica of St Vincent&mdash;immortalised by several memorable
-Councils. “But who,” asks Señor de Madrazo, “would be capable to-day of
-describing this edifice? Nothing of it remains except the memory of the
-place where it stood. Other structures, ampler and more majestic,
-replaced it when, under the Almoravides and Almohades, Seville recovered
-its rank as an independent kingdom. Let us content ourselves with
-recording that the principal mosque, built at the same time as and on
-the model of that of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_10" id="page_10">{10}</a></span> Cordova, although on a smaller and less sumptuous
-scale, was situated on the site of the existing Cathedral, and that in
-the ninth century it was burnt by the Normans. In consequence it is
-impossible to say if the great horseshoe arches which occur in the
-cloister of the Cathedral are works earlier or later than that event. It
-does not appear probable that in the time of the Khalifs the mosque of
-Seville could have had the considerable dimensions suggested by the
-northern boundary of the <i>patio de los naranjos</i>. That line is 330
-Castilian feet, which would give the mosque, extending from north to
-south, a length about double, the breadth of the atrium
-included&mdash;unlikely dimensions for a temple which, compared with the Jama
-of Cordova, was unquestionably of the second class. No one knows who
-ordered the construction of the primitive mosque of Seville.”</p>
-
-<p>The irruption of the Normans, one of the results of which was the
-demolition of this edifice, took place in 859. The pirates were
-afterwards defeated off the coast of Murcia by the Moorish squadron, and
-made sail for Catalonia. A serious descent had taken place in 844.
-Lisbon was the first city to fall a victim to the Northmen, whom we next
-hear of at Cadiz and at Sidonia, where<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_11" id="page_11">{11}</a></span> they defeated the Khalifa’s
-troops in a pitched battle. Fierce fighting took place before the walls
-of Ishbiliyah, the invaders being uniformly victorious. Laden with the
-richest booty, they at length retired overland to Lisbon, where they
-took to their ships. They not only destroyed the mosque of Seville, but
-threw down the city walls, which dated from Roman times. These were
-repaired by Abd-er-Rahman II., to be partially demolished again by
-Abd-er-Rahman III. on his triumphal entry into the amirate of Ibrahim
-Ibn Hajjaj.</p>
-
-<p>The subjection of Seville to the yoke of the Khalifs of Cordova was,
-unhappily for the city and for Islam generally, not of long duration.
-The mighty Wizir, Al Mansûr, restored the waning power of the Crescent
-and drove back the Christians into the mountain fastnesses of the North.
-But the collapse of the Western Khalifate had been postponed, not
-averted. This Al Mansûr well knew. On his deathbed he reproached his son
-for yielding to unmanly tears, saying, “This is to me a signal of the
-approaching decay of this empire.” His prediction did not long await
-fulfilment. In 1009, seven years after his death, his second son,
-Abd-er-Rahman Sanjul, had the audacity to proclaim himself the Khalif
-Hisha<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_12" id="page_12">{12}</a></span>m’s heir. The empire became at once resolved into its component
-parts. On all sides the kadis and governors revolted. Independent
-amirates were set up in all the considerable towns. At Ishbiliyah the
-shrewd and powerful kadi, Mohammed Ben Abbad, perceived his opportunity,
-but contrived to excuse his ambition by a specious pretence of legality.
-An impostor, impersonating the legitimate Khalifa, Hisham, appeared on
-the troubled scene. Ben Abbad espoused his cause and pretended to govern
-the city in his name. His power firmly established, the kadi announced
-that the Khalifa was dead and had designated him as his lawful
-successor. For the second time, Seville rose to the dignity of an
-independent state.</p>
-
-<p>The Abbadites were a splendour-loving race. Their Court was extolled by
-Arabian writers as rivalling that of the Abbasside sultans. Under their
-rule the city waxed every year more beautiful, more prosperous. Patrons
-of art and letters, the amirs were vigorous and capable sovereigns, and
-in all Musulman Spain no state was more powerful than theirs, except
-Toledo. The second monarch of the dynasty, Abu Amru Abbad, better known
-as Mo’temid, was a mighty warrior. He reduced Algarve and took Cordova.
-When not<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_13" id="page_13">{13}</a></span> engaged in martial exploits he took delight in composing
-verses, in the society of talented men, and in the contemplation of the
-garden of his enemies’ heads, which he had laid out at the door of his
-palace. He was succeeded in 1069 by his son Abul-Kasim Mohammed, a
-native of Beja.</p>
-
-<p>The Crescent was waning. All Al Mansûr’s conquests had been recovered by
-the Christians. Toledo fell before the arms of Alfonso III. The
-Castilians overran Portugal and penetrated into Andalusia. The Amir of
-Ishbiliyah took the only course open to him at the moment, and
-cultivated the friendship of the Castilian king. He consented to the
-removal of the body of St Isidore from Italica to Leon, and gave his
-daughter Zayda in a sort of left-handed marriage to Alfonso III. As the
-Christian king was already the husband of Queen Constancia, and Zayda’s
-dowry consisted of the most valuable conquests of the Amir Mut’adid,
-this transaction did not reflect much credit on either party. But it
-purchased for Seville a period of peace and security, during which its
-inhabitants became hopelessly enervated by luxury and ease.</p>
-
-<p>The Abbadite sovereigns have left but few traces on the city which they
-did so much to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_14" id="page_14">{14}</a></span> embellish and improve. To them, however, may be ascribed
-the foundation of the Alcazar. Such at least is the opinion of Señor de
-Madrazo. In the horseshoe arches of the Salón de los Embajadores with
-their rich Corinthian capitals&mdash;on which the names of different Khalifas
-are inscribed&mdash;we detect a resemblance to the mosque of Cordova, and
-recognise the early Saracenic style, unaffected by African, or properly
-Moorish, influence. To the same period and school of architecture, Señor
-de Madrazo attributes the ornate arcading of the narrow staircase
-leading from the entrance court to near the balcony of the chapel; and
-the three arches with capitals in the abandoned apartment adjoining the
-Salón de los Principes. The ultra-semicircular curve of the arch occurs
-very rarely in later or true Moorish architecture.</p>
-
-<p>The Moslem conquerors had, in the majority of cases, converted to their
-use the Christian churches in the cities they occupied. Many of the
-mosques that adorned Ishbiliyah during the reign of the race of Abbad
-had been adapted in this way, the lines of pillars being readjusted in
-most cases to give the structure that south-easterly direction that the
-law of Islam required. Traces of these Abbadite mosques remain in the
-churches of San<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_15" id="page_15">{15}</a></span> Juan Bautista and San Salvador. On the wall of the
-former was found an inscription which has been thus translated by Don
-Pascual de Gayangos: “In the name of the clement and merciful Allah. May
-the blessing of Allah be on Mohammed, the seal of the Prophets. The
-Princess and august mother of Er-Rashid Abu-l-hosaya Obayd’ allah, son
-of Mut’amid Abu-l-Kasim Mohammed Ben Abbad (may Allah make his empire
-and power lasting, as well as the glory of both!), ordered this minaret
-to be raised in her mosque (which may Allah preserve!), awaiting the
-abundance of His rewards; and the work was finished, with the help of
-Allah, by the hand of the Wizir and Katib, the Amir Abu-l-Kasim Ben
-Battah (may Allah be propitious to me!), in the moon of Shaaban, in the
-year 478.”</p>
-
-<p>The site of the present collegiate church of San Salvador was occupied
-by a mosque, which was used by the Moors for a considerable time after
-the Christian conquest, and preserved its form down to the year 1669. An
-inscription on white marble relates that a minaret was constructed in
-the year 1080, by Mut’amid Ben Abbad, that “the calling to prayer might
-not be interrupted.”</p>
-
-<p>The reign of the Abbadites was brought to a close by the advent of the
-Almoravides (a word<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</a></span> allied to <i>Marabut</i>), who, at the invitation of the
-Andalusian amirs, invaded Spain in the last quarter of the eleventh
-century. It was a story common enough in history. The Africans came at
-first as the friends and allies of the Spanish Arabs, and effectually
-stemmed the tide of Christian successes; but in 1091, Yusuf, the
-Almoravide leader, annexed Ishbiliyah and all Andalusia to his vast
-empire. The city became a mere provincial centre, the appanage of the
-Berber monarch. Mo’temid, loaded with chains, was transported to Africa,
-where he died in 1095, having reigned as amir twenty-seven years.</p>
-
-<p>The Almoravides lived by the sword and perished by the sword.
-Perpetually engaged in warfare, among themselves or with the Christians,
-they left no deep impress on the character of Seville or of Andalusia
-generally. With them the student of the arts in Spain has little
-concern. They burst like a tornado over the land, destroying much,
-creating nothing. Little more than half-a-century had passed since the
-downfall of the Abbadites, when the star of the Almoravides paled before
-the rising crescent of the Almohades or Al Muwahedun. The new sectaries,
-as fierce as their predecessors, but more indomitable and austere,
-wrested all Barbary from the descendants<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_17" id="page_17">{17}</a></span> of Tashrin and annexed
-Ishbiliyah to their empire in 1146.</p>
-
-<p>The reign of the Almohades is the most interesting period in the history
-of the city. It was marked by the foundation of Seville’s most important
-existing edifices, and by the introduction of a new style of
-architecture. Hitherto, what is loosely called Moorish art, had been
-native Andalusian art, following Saracenic or Syrian ideals. Of this
-first period, the Mezquita at Cordova is the finest monument. Seville is
-peculiarly the city of the second, or true, Moorish period. Byzantine
-and Oriental influences disappeared and were supplanted by the African
-or, more properly, Berber, character. The new conquerors of Andalusia
-were a rude, hardy race, and we find something virile and coarse in
-their architecture. “Beside the Giralda of Seville,” remarks Herr Karl
-Eugen Schmidt, “the columns of the mosque of Cordova seem small; the
-pretty halls of the Alhambra have something weak and feminine.” The
-weakness of the Almohade builders, as is usually the case with
-imperfectly civilised peoples, lay in an excessive fondness for
-ornamentation. Señor de Madrazo’s criticism, though severe, is, on the
-whole, just. While admitting the beauty of certain of their innovations,
-such as the stalac<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_18" id="page_18">{18}</a></span>tited dome (afterwards carried out with so much
-effect at Granada) and the pointed arch, he goes on to say, “The
-Almohade architecture displays that debased taste which is imitative
-rather than instinctive, and which creates only by exaggerating forms to
-a degree inconsistent with the design&mdash;differing from the Mudejar work
-of the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, which reveals an
-instinctive feeling for the beautiful in ornament, which never loses
-sight of the graceful, the elegant, and the bold, and which consequently
-never betrays any aberration. The Almohade style, in short, at once
-manifests the vigour of the barbarian civilised by conquest; the Mudejar
-style has the enduring character of the works of a man of taste, wise in
-good and evil fortune; both are the faithful expression of the culture
-of peoples of different origins and aptitudes.” Elsewhere the same
-authority observes, “It is certain that the innovation characteristic of
-Musulman architecture in Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries,
-cannot be explained as a natural mutation from the Arabic art of the
-Khalifate, or as a prelude to the art of Granada, because there is very
-little similarity between the style called secondary or Moorish and the
-Arab-Byzantine and Andalusian; while, on the other hand, it is evident<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_19" id="page_19">{19}</a></span>
-that the Saracenic monuments of Fez and Morocco, of the reigns of Yusuf
-Ben Tashfin, Abdul Ben Ali, Al Mansûr, and Nasr, partake of the
-character of the ornamentation introduced by the Almohades into Spain.”</p>
-
-<p>The most important example of this style is the Giralda, now adjacent to
-the magnificent Christian cathedral which was reared in later days on
-the foundations of the great mosque. Señor de Madrazo has reconstructed
-for us the general form and aspect of the finest monument of Almohade
-piety. The mosque replaced that which had been destroyed by the Normans,
-and appears to have embodied some part of the original structure, to
-judge from the horseshoe arches still to be seen in the Claustro de la
-Granada. The work was begun by order of Yusuf, the son of Abd-er-Rahman,
-the founder of the dynasty. The mosque formed a rectangle, extending
-from north to south, and surrounded by cloisters and courtyards. The
-interior was divided into longitudinal naves by a series of marble
-columns, which supported an adorned ceiling of carved and painted wood.
-The <i>mihrab</i>, or sanctuary, would have been at the southern extremity,
-after the Syrian custom, it taking the Spanish Muslims some time to
-realise that Mecca lay east rather than<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_20" id="page_20">{20}</a></span> south of Andalusia. The mosque
-would also have contained a <i>maksurrah</i>, or vestibule, for the imam and
-his officials, the <i>nimbar</i>, or pulpit, for the sovereign, and the
-tribune for the preacher. In the northern court was the existing
-fountain for ablutions, surmounted by a cupola, and surrounded by orange
-and palm-trees. The eastern court was known as the Court of the Elms. In
-all probability, attached to the sacred edifice, was the <i>turbeh</i>, or
-tomb of the founder.</p>
-
-<p>The Giralda is not only the most important and famous of minarets, but
-is among the three or four most remarkable towers in the world. It is
-more to Seville than Giotto’s campanile to Florence; it rivals in fame
-the now vanished campanile of St Mark’s. Unlike similar edifices in
-Egypt and Syria, minarets among the western Moslems were built strong
-and massive, rather than slender and elegant. The Giralda,” says Herr
-Schmidt, “is one of the strongest buildings in the world, and few of our
-Christian church towers could have withstood so successfully the
-lightning and the earthquake.”</p>
-
-<p>The Giralda is quadrangular in section, and covers a space of 13.60
-square metres. The architect&mdash;whose name is variously spelt Gever,
-Hever, and Djabir&mdash;is said to have used quantities of Roman<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_21" id="page_21">{21}</a></span> remains and
-statuary as a base for the foundations. The thickness of the wall at the
-base is nine feet, but it increases with the height, the interior space
-narrowing accordingly. The lower part of the tower is of stone, the
-upper part of brick. At a height of about 15 metres above the ground
-begin those decorations in stone which lend such elegance and beauty to
-this stout structure. They consist in vertical series of windows&mdash;mostly
-<i>ajimeces</i> or twin-windows&mdash;some with the horseshoe, others the pointed
-arch, flanked on either side by broad vertical bands of beautiful stone
-tracery, resembling trellis-work. The windows are enclosed in arches
-which exhibit considerable diversity of design. The decoration as a
-whole is harmonious and beautiful.</p>
-
-<p>The Moorish tower only reaches to a height of 70 metres. The remaining
-portion, reaching upwards for another 25 metres, is of Christian
-workmanship. Before this was added, the tower appears to have been
-crowned, like most West African minarets, by a small pinnacle or turret.
-This supported four balls or apples of gilded copper, one of which was
-so large that the gates of Seville had to be widened that it might be
-brought into the city. The iron bar which supported the balls weighed
-about ten hundredweights, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_22" id="page_22">{22}</a></span> the whole was cast by a Sicilian Arab
-named Abu Leyth, at a cost of £50,000 sterling. We owe these particulars
-to a Mohammedan writer of the period, and his accuracy was confirmed in
-1395, when the balls, having been thrown to the ground by an earthquake,
-were carefully weighed and examined.</p>
-
-<p>The upper or newer part of the Giralda was built by Fernando Ruiz in
-1568. Despite its Doric and Ionic columns and Renaissance style, it does
-not mar the beauty and harmony of the whole building, and is itself a
-remarkably graceful work. The entablature of the second stage or storey
-bears the words <i>Turris fortissima Nomen Domini</i>. The whole fabric is
-surmounted by the bronze statue of Faith, executed by Bartolomé Morel in
-1568. It stands fourteen feet high, and weighs twenty-five
-hundredweights, yet so wonderful is the workmanship that it turns with
-every breath of the wind. Hence the name applied to the whole
-tower&mdash;Giralda&mdash;from <i>que gira</i>, “which turns.” The figure wears a Roman
-helmet. The right hand clasps the labarum of Constantine, and the left a
-palm branch symbolical of victory.</p>
-
-<p>The Giralda is ascended by means of thirty-five inclined planes, up
-which a horse might be ridden with ease to the very top. The various<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_23" id="page_23">{23}</a></span>
-<i>cuerpos</i> or stages of the ascent are all named. The Cuerpo de Campanas
-is named after its fine peal of bells. The bell named Santa Maria was
-hung in 1588 by order of the Archbishop Gonzalo de Mena. It cost ten
-thousand ducats, and weighs eighteen tons. The Cuerpo de Azucenas (or of
-the lilies) is so named after its urns with floral decorations in
-ironwork. El Cuerpo del Reloj (clock tower) contains a clock partly
-constructed in 1765 by the monk José Cordero, with pieces of another
-placed here in 1400 in the presence of Don Enrique III.&mdash;the first
-tower-clock set up in Spain. The Cuerpos de Estrellas (stars) and de las
-Corambolas (billiard-balls) are named after the predominant devices in
-their schemes of decoration.</p>
-
-<p>The highest platform of the Giralda affords, as might be expected, a
-very extensive view. On the whole, the prospect is disappointing. The
-neighbourhood of Seville is not beautiful, nor are there any very
-notable sites or natural features included within the panorama. Standing
-below Morel’s great statue, however, and gazing down upon the city,
-interesting considerations naturally present themselves. That the figure
-of Christian faith should thus be reared on the summit of a building
-specially intended to stimu<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_24" id="page_24">{24}</a></span>late the zeal and to excite the devotion of
-the followers of Islam is a reflection calculated to give profound
-satisfaction to the devout Spaniard. The whimsical philosopher may also
-find an appropriateness in the handiwork of the men of the simpler,
-cruder faith conducting one upwards to the more refined and complicated
-creed. I do not know if Mohammedans ever visit Seville. If so, they
-doubtless console themselves for the desecration of their sacred
-edifices by thoughts of Hagia Sophia and the onetime Christian churches
-of the East. And the Giralda has fared better at the hands of the
-Christians than many a church of their own has done. I may instance the
-chapel at Mayence, which with practically no alteration in its
-architecture and internal arrangements now serves the purpose of a
-beer-shop.</p>
-
-<p>As the Giralda attests the size and beauty of the great mosque, so
-several smaller towers exist in Seville to mark the sites of the lesser
-Mohammedan temples. The most important of these is the tower or minaret
-of San Marcos. It is seventy-five feet high and ten feet broad&mdash;the
-highest edifice in the city except the Giralda. It is built according to
-the pure Almohade style, “without any admixture,” points out Señor de<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_25" id="page_25">{25}</a></span>
-Madrazo, “of the features taken from the Christian architecture of the
-West.” According to Mr Walter M. Gallichan there is a tradition that
-Cervantes used to ascend this tower to scan the vicinity in search of a
-Sevillian beauty of whom he was enamoured. The church is Gothic, and
-dates from 1478, but the beautiful portal exhibits Mudejar workmanship,
-and may be ascribed to the days of St Ferdinand or of his immediate
-successors.</p>
-
-<p>The parish churches of San Juan Bautista, Santa Marina, San Esteban,
-Santiago, Santa Catalina, San Julián, San Ildefonso, San Andrés, San
-Vicente, San Lorenzo, San Bartolomé, Santa Cruz, and Santa Maria de las
-Nieves (some of which no longer exist), were all mosques during the
-Almohade era. A few continue to preserve their minarets and <i>mihrabs</i>,
-generally restored and modified almost beyond recognition.</p>
-
-<p>While attending by the construction of these numerous places of worship
-to the spiritual needs of their subjects, the Almohade rulers neglected
-no means of strengthening Ishbiliyah and of promoting its general
-prosperity. The city became the most important seat of Mohammedan power
-in the West. Trade rapidly increased, and the town became the principal
-resort of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_26" id="page_26">{26}</a></span> weavers, metal-workers, and other prominent Moorish
-craftsmen. Abu Yakub Yusuf was the first to throw a bridge of boats
-across the Guadalquivir, over which troops first passed on October 11th,
-1171. This bridge immensely added to the strength of the city as a
-fortified place, as it established permanent communication between it
-and its principal source of supplies, the fertile district called the
-Ajarafa on the right bank of the river. The charms of this expanse,
-otherwise known as the Orchard of Hercules, are rapturously described by
-Arab historians. These are the words of the poet Ibn Saffar: “The
-Ajarafa surpasseth in beauty and fertility all the lands of the world.
-The oil of its olives goeth even to far Alexandria; its farms and
-orchards exceed those of other countries in size and convenience; so
-white and clean are they, that they appear like so many stars in a sky
-of olive gardens.” The Ajarafa is an Arabia Felix without wild beasts,
-the Guadalquivir a Nile without crocodiles. El Makkari says it measured
-about forty miles in each direction and contained a numerous population.
-Those who know the rather dreary country extending westward of the
-modern city will realise the melancholy change brought about by time.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_27" id="page_27">{27}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>The city then, as now, was girdled by strong walls. The gates were
-twelve in number. Those not turned towards the river were strongly
-fortified with towers and bastions. The farther bank of the Guadalquivir
-was defended by castles and redoubts. Upwards of a hundred keeps and
-watch-towers studded the adjacent country.</p>
-
-<p>One of the most vital points in the defensive works was the
-poetically-named Torre del Oro (tower of gold), which still exists, and
-is familiar to every visitor to the city. The tower is a twelve-sided
-polygon of three storeys. It is surmounted by a smaller tower, also of
-twelve sides, which in turn supports a small round cupola. This
-superstructure was added in the eighteenth century, whereas the main
-building was erected by the Almohade governor Abu-l-Ala in the year
-1220. The tower was in those days connected with the walls of the city
-by what is called in military parlance a curtain, which was pulled down
-as late as in 1821. The outwork faced another watch-tower on the
-opposite bank of the river, and a great iron chain was drawn from the
-one to the other, effectually closing the harbour against hostile
-vessels. The assaults of the foeman and the deadlier ravages of time
-have stripped this strong and graceful<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_28" id="page_28">{28}</a></span> monument of the beautiful tiles
-or <i>azulejos</i> with which it was once adorned, and which seemed to have
-earned for it its present name. No Danaë, alas! waits in this tower of
-gold to-day for tyrant or deliverer. The place is occupied by clerks,
-whose pens are ever busy recording the shipments of coal brought by
-incoming steamers; and the immediate vicinity is infested by “tramp”
-sailors of all nationalities, mostly British, for whose benefit,
-presumably, rum, “Old Tom,” and other stimulating but unromantic
-beverages are dispensed at kiosks and bars.</p>
-
-<p>The spot appears to have been the scene of a picturesque episode
-recounted by Contreras. It is worth repeating as revealing the polished
-character of the dusky amirs who ruled in Ishbiliyah three hundred years
-before Charles of Orleans devoted his declining years, in his palace by
-the Loire, to the making of ballads, triolets, and rondeaux.</p>
-
-<p>The Abbadite amir, Mut’adid-billah, was walking one day in the field of
-Marchab Afida, on the banks of the Guadalquivir, and observed the breeze
-ruffling the surface of the water. He improvised the line&mdash;</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">“The breeze makes of the water a cuirass”&mdash;<br /></span>
-</div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="nind">and turning to the poet Aben Amr, called upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_29" id="page_29">{29}</a></span> him to complete the
-verse. While the laureate was still in the throes of poetical
-parturition, a young girl of the people who happened to be standing by,
-anticipated him, and gave utterance to these original lines&mdash;</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">“A cuirass strong, magnificent for combat,<br /></span>
-<span class="i1">As if the water had been frozen truly.”<br /></span>
-</div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p>The prince was astonished at this display of the lyrical gift by a woman
-of her condition, and ordered one of his eunuchs to conduct her to the
-palace. On being questioned, she informed him that she was called
-Romikiwa, because she was the slave of Romiya, and was a driver of
-mules.</p>
-
-<p>“Are you married?” asked the prince.</p>
-
-<p>“No, sire.”</p>
-
-<p>“It is well, for I shall buy you and marry you.”</p>
-
-<p>It is to be hoped that Romikiwa’s merits as a wife exceeded her
-abilities as a poetess.</p>
-
-<p>The Alcazar, the palace inhabited by this dilettante amir and his
-successors of the race of Abbad, continued to be the principal residence
-of the subsequent rulers of Ishbiliyah, both Almoravides and Almohades.
-There can be no doubt that the latter restored and reconstructed the
-building to an extent that almost effaced the work of the founders. But
-the impress of the Berber architects was in its turn almost entirely
-lost when<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_30" id="page_30">{30}</a></span> the fabric came into the possession of the Christians. Thus
-the Alcazar cannot be rightly classed among the monuments of the
-Almohade period. It is certain that its extent at this time was greater
-than it is now. Its enclosure was bounded by the city wall, which ran
-down to the river, and occupied the whole angle formed by the two. The
-Alcazar was then primarily a fortress, and its walls were flanked on
-every side by watch-towers such as those with which its front is still
-furnished. The principal entrance seems to have been at the Torre de la
-Plata (silver tower), which was standing as late as 1821. Finally, among
-the works of the last Musulman rulers of Seville, we must not omit to
-mention the great aqueduct of four hundred and ten arches, called the
-Caños de Carmona, constructed in 1172, which ensured the city an
-abundant supply of water from the reservoir of Alcalá de Guadaira. The
-Almohades had other palaces in the city. The old residence of Abdelasis
-yet remained, and we hear of the palaces of St Hermenegildo and of the
-Bib Ragel (or northern gate).</p>
-
-<p>The Almohades kinged it nobly in Andalusia; but these successive
-revivals of fervour and activity in Western Islam may be compared to the
-last strong spasms of a dying man. Despite<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_31" id="page_31">{31}</a></span> these furious inrushes of
-Almoravides and Al-Muwahedun, the Christians were slowly but surely
-gaining ground. The lieutenants of Abd-ul-Mumin subjugated Granada and
-Almeria in the east, Badajoz and Evora in the west. The Moorish amir of
-Valencia did homage to Yusuf, Abd-ul-Mumin’s son and successor, at
-Ishbiliyah. The third sovereign of the dynasty, Yakub Al Mansûr, dealt
-what seemed a crushing blow to the allied Spaniards at Alarcos in 1195.
-Had that victory been properly followed up, perhaps to this day a
-Mohammedan power might have been seated firmly in the south of Spain,
-and the Strait of Gibraltar might have been a western Dardanelles.</p>
-
-<p>But the Christians rallied. In 1212 was fought the decisive battle of
-Las Navas de Tolosa, between the Moorish Khalif An-Nasr and the
-Castilian King, Alfonso VIII. The Musulmans were totally defeated. “Six
-hundred thousand combatants,” says El Makkari, with perhaps a trace of
-Oriental hyperbole, “were led by An-Nasr to the field of battle; all
-perished, except a few that did not amount to a thousand. This battle
-was a malediction, not only on Andalus but on all the West.”</p>
-
-<p>Yet the downfall of the Islamite power did not immediately follow.
-An-Nasr survived his defeat<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_32" id="page_32">{32}</a></span> seven years, and his son, Abu Yusuf Yakub
-Al-Mustanser, reigned four more inglorious years. His dying (1223)
-without children was the signal for dissensions and disturbances
-throughout his still vast empire. While Abd-ul-Wahed was proclaimed
-Khalifa in Morocco, Al Adil took up the reins of sovereignty in Murcia.
-Both pretenders soon disappeared from the troubled scene, Abd-ul-Wahed
-being assassinated, and his rival, after having been defeated in Spain
-by the Christians, being forced to take refuge in Morocco, there to
-abdicate in favour of An-Nasr’s son, Yahya. Abu-l-Ala, Al Adil’s
-brother, who had been left as governor in Ishbiliyah, declared himself
-Khalifa on learning the accession of Yahya. He was the last of the race
-of Abd-ul-Mumin to rule in the city. He was driven from Spain&mdash;to found
-a wider empire in Africa&mdash;by Mohammed Ben Yusuf, variously styled Ben
-Hud and Al Jodhami.</p>
-
-<p>The storm-clouds were gathering fast over the beautiful city by the
-Guadalquivir. Spain’s great national hero, St Ferdinand, now wore the
-crown of Castile. He routed the Moors at Jerez, and in 1235 wrested from
-them their most ancient and glorious metropolis, Cordova. The discord
-and sedition which history shows are the usual prelude to the extinction
-of a state, were not<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_33" id="page_33">{33}</a></span> wanting at Seville. Ben Hud died in 1238, and his
-subjects turned once more in their despair to the African Almohades. But
-no new army of Ghazis crossed the strait to do battle with the
-Unbeliever. Despite their protestations of allegiance to the Khalifa of
-Barbary, the Moors of Seville were left to fight their last fight
-unassisted. When the Castilian army appeared before the walls, the
-defence was directed, strangely enough for a Mohammedan community, by a
-junta of six persons. Their names are worthy of being recorded: Abu
-Faris, called by the Spaniards Axataf, Sakkáf, Shoayb, Ben Khaldûn, Ben
-Khiyar, and Abu Bekr Ben Sharih.</p>
-
-<p>The siege of Ishbiliyah lasted fifteen months. Material assistance was
-lent to the Spaniards by Musulman auxiliaries, among them the Amirs of
-Jaën and Granada. The Castilian fleet under Admiral Ramon Bonifaz
-dispersed the Moorish ships, while the Sevillian land forces were driven
-to take refuge within the walls. The Admiral succeeded in breaking the
-chain stretched across the river, and thus cut off the garrison from
-their principal magazines in the suburb of Triana. Only when in the
-clutches of famine did the defenders ask for terms. They offered to give
-up the city, on the condition that they should be<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_34" id="page_34">{34}</a></span> allowed to demolish
-the mosque. The Infante Alfonso replied that if a single brick were
-displaced, the whole population would be put to the sword. The garrison
-finally surrendered on the promise that all inhabitants who desired to
-do so should be free to leave the city with their families and property,
-and that those who elected to remain should pay the Castilian king the
-same tribute they had hitherto paid to the native ruler. The brave Abu
-Faris was invited to accept an honourable post under the conqueror, but
-he magnanimously declined and retired to Africa. Thither thousands of
-his countrymen followed him. Indeed, probably only a few thousand Moors
-remained behind in Seville.</p>
-
-<p>Ferdinand took possession on December 22nd, 1248. He took up his
-residence in the Alcazar and allotted houses and territory to his
-officers. It is worthy of remark that the first Christian soldier to
-ascend the Giralda was a Scotsman named Lawrence Poore. Among the first
-duties of the saintly king was the purification of the mosque and its
-conversion into a Christian church.</p>
-
-<p>Seville, after having remained in the hands of the Musulmans five
-hundred and thirty-six years, had passed from them for ever.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_35" id="page_35">{35}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="SEVILLE_UNDER_THE_CASTILIAN_KINGS" id="SEVILLE_UNDER_THE_CASTILIAN_KINGS"></a>SEVILLE UNDER THE CASTILIAN KINGS</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">The</span> outward transformation of the Moorish Ishbiliyah into Seville, the
-Christian capital, proceeded slowly and gradually. The personal devotion
-and profound religious fervour of King Ferdinand notwithstanding, even
-the war which resulted in the taking of the city cannot be regarded as a
-crusade. As we have seen, Mohammedan troops fought under the banners of
-the Christian king and contributed to his victory; and in the division
-of the spoils these allies were not forgotten. Satisfied with their
-triumph, the Castilians showed moderation in their treatment of their
-Muslim subjects. The fall of Ishbiliyah was attended by no outburst of
-iconoclastic fury. The conquerors were delighted with the beauty and
-richness of their prize, and had no desire to impair the handiwork of
-their predecessors.</p>
-
-<p>The transition from the pure Arabic and Almohade styles of architecture
-to what is called the Mudejar style was therefore almost imperceptible.
-The physiognomy of the city altered but slowly.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_36" id="page_36">{36}</a></span> But the alteration was
-from the first inevitable. Houses and lands were bestowed on knights
-from all parts of Spain on the condition of their residing permanently
-in Seville. Catalans, Galicians, Castilians of all trades and ranks
-flocked in, and their influence was bound sooner or later to assert
-itself. But the builders and artisan class remained for many years
-composed of Moors&mdash;sometimes Christianised, but thoroughly imbued with
-the artistic traditions of their forebears. Thus came about that
-peculiar and graceful blending of the Moorish and Gothic and earlier
-Renaissance styles known to Spanish writers as the Mudejar. Its
-differentiation from the Arabic naturally became more marked as the
-centuries rolled by.</p>
-
-<p>Moorish architecture was thus accepted by the conquerors of Seville both
-from choice and necessity. But certain important modifications in the
-structure of buildings became immediately necessary, owing to the
-difference of faith and customs. The mosque and the dwelling-house alike
-had to undergo some alteration. No <i>mihrab</i> was required, nor minaret,
-nor the south-easterly position; in the dwelling-house there was no need
-for harem, for retired praying-place, for the baths so dear to the
-Andalusian Muslim.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_37" id="page_37">{37}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Probably the first building of importance to be affected by the change
-of rulers was the mosque. The outermost naves were divided into chapels,
-the names and order of which have been preserved for us by Zuñiga
-(quoted by Madrazo).</p>
-
-<p>The royal chapel occupied the centre of the eastern wall; the other
-chapels were: San Pedro, Santiago, Santa Barbara, San Bernardo, San
-Sebastian (in this chapel were buried some Moors of the blood royal who
-had been baptised and had served King Ferdinand, among them being Don
-Fernando Abdelmon, son of Abu Seyt, Amir of Baeza), San Ildefonso, San
-Francisco, San Andrés, San Clemente, San Felipe, San Mateo (containing
-the sepulchre of the Admiral of Castile, Don Juan de Luna), Don Alonso
-Perez de Guzman, San Miguel, San Marcos, San Lucas, San Bernabe, San
-Simon, and San Judas, and the Magdalena. In the last-named chapel were
-buried the knights who had taken part in the capture of the city.
-Attached to it was the altar of Nuestra Señora de Pilar, a reputedly
-miraculous shrine which became the objective of pilgrims in after years.</p>
-
-<p>Chapels were also constructed in the four cloisters of the Patio de los
-Naranjos. The cloister of the Caballeros contained eight&mdash;one of which,
-Santa Lucia, was the place of sepulchre of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_38" id="page_38">{38}</a></span> the Haro family; the
-cloister of the Granada contained three; the cloister of San Esteban,
-three; the cloister of San Jorge or Del Lagarto, four&mdash;in one of which,
-San Jorge, reposed that doughty warrior, Garci Perez de Vargas, who
-distinguished himself before all his compeers at the assault of Seville.
-This cloister was named Del Lagarto from the remains of an enormous
-crocodile, a present from the Sultan of Egypt to King Alfonso el Sabio,
-which are still suspended from the roof.</p>
-
-<p>The cathedral&mdash;for so we must now call the mosque&mdash;was endowed and
-richly embellished by St Ferdinand’s son and successor, the bookish
-monarch Alfonso el Sabio. He also bestowed upon Seville its existing
-coat-of-arms, consisting of the device NO8DO, which frequently appears,
-to the bewilderment of strangers, on public buildings, uniforms, and
-documents. The knot is in the vernacular <i>madeja</i>; the device thus reads
-<i>no madeja do</i>, or, with an excusable pun, <i>no me ha dejado</i>&mdash;“it has
-not deserted me.” This honourable motto the city won by its loyalty to
-Alfonso during the civil wars which distracted the kingdom during his
-reign. Seville bears the splendid title of “Most noble, most loyal, most
-heroic, and unconquered city” (<i>muy noble</i>, <i>muy leal</i>, <i>muy heroica</i>,
-<i>y<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_39" id="page_39">{39}</a></span> invicta</i>). The surname “most noble” was bestowed upon it by St
-Ferdinand; the style “most faithful” it received from Juan II. in
-remembrance of its resistance to the Infante Don Enrique; “most heroic”
-from Fernando VII. in recognition of its devotion to the national cause
-during the War of Independence; and “unconquered” from Isabel II. to
-commemorate its defence against the army of Espartero in July 1843.</p>
-
-<p>The successors of the sainted king made their home in the Alcazar, and
-adapted themselves to an environment created by their traditional foes.
-The personality which looms largest in the history of the city is that
-of Don Pedro I., surnamed the Cruel, or, by his few admirers, ‘the
-Justiciary.’ What Harun-al-Rashid is in the story of Bagdad is this
-ferocious monarch in the annals of Seville. Countless are the tales, the
-ballads, and traditions of which he is the subject. Curiously enough,
-Pedro enjoyed a certain measure of popularity in the country he
-misgoverned. He was undoubtedly a vigilant protector of the humbler
-classes of his subjects against the tyranny of the aristocracy, and
-officials, and appears to have combined a grim humour and a strain of
-what we should now call Bohemianism, with a tiger-like ferocity. He was
-fond of rambling <i>incognito</i> through the poorer<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_40" id="page_40">{40}</a></span> quarters of the city;
-and no account of Seville can be considered complete without a relation
-of one of his most notable adventures in the street called Calle de la
-Cabeza de Don Pedro.</p>
-
-<p>The king had promulgated a decree holding the municipal authorities
-answerable with their lives for the preservation of peace and public
-order within their jurisdiction. A few nights later, wandering, heavily
-cloaked as we may suppose, through a dark alley, a gentleman brushed
-rudely against him. A brawl ensued, swords were drawn, and Pedro ran his
-subject through the body. Flattering himself that there had been no
-witness to the encounter, he stalked away. In the morning the hidalgo’s
-body was found, but there appeared to be no clue as to the assassin. The
-king summoned the Alcalde and reminded him of the edict. If the
-miscreant were not discovered within two days the luckless magistrate
-must himself pay the penalty on the scaffold. It was a situation with
-precisely the humorous aspect that Pedro relished.</p>
-
-<p>But presently to the Alcalde came an old lady with a strange but welcome
-story. She told how she had seen a fight between two gentlemen, the
-previous night, from her bed-chamber window. She witnessed the fatal
-termination, and lo! the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_41" id="page_41">{41}</a></span> light of her candle fell full on the face of
-the murderer; and as he bent forward, she heard his knee crack. By his
-features and by this well-known physical peculiarity, she recognised,
-beyond all possibility of a mistake, the king.</p>
-
-<p>Next day the Alcalde invited his sovereign to attend the execution of
-the criminal. Greatly wondering, no doubt, Pedro came. Dangling from a
-rope he beheld his own effigy. “It is well,” he said, after an ominous
-pause. “Justice has been done. I am satisfied.”</p>
-
-<p>We may be inclined to disagree with the king’s conception of justice as
-evinced on this occasion. More equitable and humorous was his action
-when a priest, for murdering a shoemaker, was condemned by his
-ecclesiastical superiors to suspension from his sacerdotal functions for
-twelve months. Pedro thereupon decreed that any tradesman who slew a
-priest should be punished by being restrained from exercising his trade
-for the like period!</p>
-
-<p>The catalogue of this Castilian monarch’s crimes proves interesting if
-gloomy reading. He left his wife, Blanche de Bourbon, to perish in a
-dungeon; he married Juana de Castro and insultingly repudiated her
-within forty-eight hours; he put to death his father’s mistress, Leonor
-de<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_42" id="page_42">{42}</a></span> Guzman. He threw the young daughter of his brother, Enrique de
-Trastamara, naked to the lions, like some Christian virgin-martyr. But
-the good-humoured (and possibly well-fed) brutes refused to touch the
-proffered prey. Not wishing to be outdone in generosity by a wild beast,
-Pedro ever afterwards treated the maiden kindly. She was known, in
-remembrance of her terrible experience, as Leonor de los Leones.</p>
-
-<p>The Jew, Don Simuel Ben Levi, had served Pedro long and only too
-faithfully as treasurer and tax-gatherer. It was whispered in his
-master’s ear that half the wealth that should fill the royal coffers was
-diverted into his own. Ben Levi was seized without warning and placed on
-the rack, where the noble Israelite is said to have died, not of pain,
-but of pure indignation. Under his house&mdash;so the story has it&mdash;was a
-cavern filled with three piles of gold and silver so high that a man
-standing behind any one of them was completely hidden. “Had Don Simuel
-given me the third of the least of these three piles,” exclaimed the
-king, “I would not have had him tortured. Why would he rather die than
-speak?”</p>
-
-<p>Somewhat more excusable was the treatment meted out to the Red King of
-Granada, Abu Saïd; for this prince was himself a usurper, and had<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_43" id="page_43">{43}</a></span>
-behaved traitorously towards his own sovereign and his suzerain, the
-King of Castile. Fearing Pedro’s resentment, he appeared at his court at
-Seville with a retinue of three hundred, loaded with presents, among
-which was the enormous ruby that now decorates the Crown of England. He
-was received in audience by the Spanish king, whom he begged to
-arbitrate between him and the deposed King of Granada. Pedro returned a
-gracious reply, and entertained the Red King in the Alcazar. Before many
-hours had passed the Moors were seized in their apartments and stripped
-of their raiment and valuables. Abu Saïd, mounted on a donkey and
-ridiculously attired, was taken, with thirty-six of his courtiers, to a
-field outside the town. There they were bound to posts. A train of
-horsemen appeared, Don Pedro among them, and transfixed the helpless men
-with darts, the king shouting as he hurled his missiles at the luckless
-Abu Saïd, “This for the treaty you made me conclude with Aragon!” “This
-for the castle you lost me!” The Moors met their death with the stoical
-resignation of their race.</p>
-
-<p>That atrocities committed against Jews and infidels, against even
-members of the royal family, should be regarded with indifference by the
-public<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_44" id="page_44">{44}</a></span> of that day need not surprise us. But the people of Seville
-tamely suffered the most cruel wrongs to be inflicted by the tyrant on
-their own fellow-citizens. After his (or rather the Black Prince’s)
-victory over Don Enrique at Najera (1367), the Admiral Bocanegra and Don
-Juan Ponce de Leon were beheaded on the Plaza San Francisco. Garci Jufre
-Tenorio, the mayor of the city, also suffered death. The property of
-Doña Teresa Jufre was confiscated because she had spoken ill of his
-Majesty. Doña Urraca Osorio, because her son had taken part with Don
-Enrique in the revolt, was burned at the stake on the Alameda. Her
-servant, Leonor Dávalos, threw herself into the flames and shared the
-fate of her mistress. In consequence of this persecution, Seville lost
-several of her most illustrious families, which either became
-extinguished or removed themselves to other parts of Spain.</p>
-
-<p>So much for the picturesque if repugnant personality of Pedro I. With
-his sinister memory the Alcazar is so intimately associated, and the
-part he took in its reconstruction was so conspicuous that this may be
-deemed the proper place to deal with that famous building&mdash;one of the
-two most important in Seville.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_45" id="page_45">{45}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="THE_ALCAZAR" id="THE_ALCAZAR"></a>THE ALCAZAR</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind">“<span class="smcap">The Alcazar</span>,” says Señor Rafaél Contreras, “is not a classic work, nor
-does it present to-day that stamp of originality and that ineffaceable
-character which distinguish ancient works like the Parthenon and modern
-works like the Escorial. In the Alcazar of Yakub Yusuf the influence of
-the heroic generation has faded away, and it portrays instead the daily
-life of our Christian kings who have enriched it with a thousand pages
-of glorious history. The Almohades, who impressed on the building their
-African characteristics in 1181, and Jalubi, who had been a follower of
-Al-Mehdi in the conquest of Africa, left on its walls traces of the
-Roman influences met with in the course of their movements. St
-Ferdinand, who conquered it, Don Pedro I., who restored it, Don Juan
-II., who reconstructed the most elegant apartments, the Catholic
-sovereigns, who built within its precincts chapels and oratories,
-Charles V., who added more than a half in the modified style of that
-epoch of the Renaissance, Philip III. and Philip V., who enlarged it
-still more by build<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_46" id="page_46">{46}</a></span>ing in the adjacent gardens&mdash;these, and other
-princes who inhabited it during six centuries, have changed the original
-structure to such an extent that to-day it is far from being a monument
-of oriental art, though we find it covered with fine arabesques and
-embellished with mosaics and gilding.”</p>
-
-<p>Though not a monument of oriental art, the Alcazar seems to us to have
-claims to rank as a specimen of Moorish architecture; for the general
-character of the structure was determined by the restorations effected
-by order of Pedro I., and these were, probably exclusively, the work of
-Moorish artisans, not only of Seville, but from Granada, then a Moorish
-city. This accounts for the resemblance of this palace to the more
-famous Alhambra. But the Alcazar is not to be dismissed as a mere
-pseudo-Moorish palace. It remains, to a great extent, the work of
-Moorish hands and the conception of Moorish architects.</p>
-
-<p>In spite of the severe strictures of fastidious observers, the Alcazar
-produces a very pleasing impression on northern visitors. Mr W. M.
-Gallichan writes: “It is a palace of dreams, encircled by lovely
-perfumed gardens. Its courts and salons are redolent of Moorish days and
-haunted by the spirits of turbaned sheiks, philo<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_47" id="page_47">{47}</a></span>sophers, minstrels, and
-dark-eyed beauties of the harem.... The nightingales still sing among
-the odorous orange bloom, and in the tangles of roses birds still build
-their nests. Fountains tinkle beneath gently moving palms; the savour of
-orientalism clings to the spot. Here wise men discussed in the cool of
-summer nights, when the moon stood high over the Giralda and white beams
-fell through the spreading boughs of the lemon trees, and shivered upon
-the tiled pavements.</p>
-
-<p>“In this garden the musicians played and the tawny dancers writhed and
-curved their lissome bodies, in dramatic Eastern dances. <i>Ichabod!</i> The
-moody potentate, bowed down with the cares of high office, no longer
-treads the dim corridor or lingers in the shade of the palm trees, lost
-in cogitation. No sound of gaiety reverberates in the deserted courts;
-no voice of orator is heard in the Hall of Justice. The green lizards
-bask on the deserted benches of the gardens. Rose petals strew the paved
-paths. One’s footsteps echo in the gorgeous <i>patios</i>, whose walls have
-witnessed many a scene of pomp, tragedy, and pathos. The spell of the
-past holds one; and before the imagination troops a long procession of
-illustrious sovereigns, courtiers, counsellors, and menials.”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_48" id="page_48">{48}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>The Alcazar, as we have said, at the time of the reconquest covered a
-much larger space than at present; and its area was even greater in the
-days of Pedro I. Its strength as a fortress may be gauged by a glance at
-the remaining walls, adjacent to the principal entrance. In the Plaza de
-Santo Tomas is an octagonal, one-storeyed tower, called the Torre de
-Abdalasis, which once formed part of the building, and is said to have
-been the spot on which St Ferdinand hoisted his flag on the fall of
-Seville. To enter the palace we pass across the Plaza del Triunfo and
-enter the Patio de las Banderas, so called either because a flag was
-hoisted here when the royal family were in residence or on account of
-the trophy displayed over one of the arches, composed of the Arms of
-Spain with supporting flags. From this court a colonnade called the
-Apeadero leads to the Patio de la Monteria. It was built, as an
-inscription over the portal records, by Philip III. in 1607, and
-restored and devoted to the purposes of an armoury by the fifth
-sovereign of that name in 1729. The Patio de la Monteria derives its
-name from the Royal Lifeguards, the Monteros de Espinosa, having their
-quarters here. These courts, with the commonplace private houses which
-surround them, occupy the site of the old Moorish palace of the
-Almo<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_49" id="page_49">{49}</a></span>hades. Some of the houses exhibit vestiges of fine Musulman work.
-The house No. 3 of the Patio de las Banderas formed part, in the opinion
-of Gestoso y Perez, of the Stucco Palace (Palacio del Yeso) mentioned by
-Ayala as having been built by Pedro I. That potentate, it is worthy of
-remark, was accustomed to administer justice, tempered with ferocity,
-after the oriental fashion, seated on a stone bench in a corner of this
-<i>patio</i>. The room in which the Almohade governors presided over their
-tribunals still exists. It is surrounded by houses, and is entered from
-the Patio de la Monteria. Contreras sees in this hall (the Sala de
-Justicia) the traces of a work anterior to the ninth century. It was,
-however, restored by Pedro. It is square, and measures nine metres
-across. The ceiling is of stucco and adorned with stars, wreaths, and a
-painted frieze. Inscriptions in beautiful Cufic characters constitute
-the principal decoration of the apartment. Round the four walls runs a
-tastefully worked stucco frieze, interrupted by several right-angled
-apertures. These were once covered, in the opinion of Herr Schmidt, by
-screens of plaster, which kept out the sun’s heat but admitted the
-light; or, according to Gestoso y Perez, by tapestries “which must have
-made the hall appear a miracle of wealth and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_50" id="page_50">{50}</a></span> splendour.” Thanks to its
-isolation, the Sala de Justicia escaped the “restoration” effected in
-the middle of the nineteenth century by order of the Duc de Montpensier.</p>
-
-<p>It was in this hall (often overlooked by visitors) that Don Pedro
-overheard four judges discussing the division of a bribe they had
-received. They were beheaded on the spot, and their skulls are still to
-be seen in the walls of the king’s bed-chamber.</p>
-
-<p>From the Patio de la Monteria we pass into the Patio del Leon. In the
-fifteenth century, we read, tournaments were often held here. Our
-attention is at once directed to the superb façade of the main building
-or Alcazar proper&mdash;the palace of Don Pedro. It is a splendid work of
-art. The columns are of rare marble with elegant Moorish capitals. The
-portal is imposing, and was rebuilt by Don Pedro, as the legend in
-curious Gothic characters informs us: ‘The most high, the most noble,
-the most powerful, and most victorious Don Pedro, King of Castile and
-Leon, commanded these palaces, these alcazares, and these entrances to
-be made in the year [of Cæsar] one thousand four hundred and two”
-(1364). Elsewhere on the façade are the oft-repeated inscriptions in
-Cufic characters: “There is no conqueror but Allah,”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_51" id="page_51">{51}</a></span> “Glory to our
-lord, the Sultan,” “Eternal glory to Allah,” “Eternal is the dominion of
-Allah,” etc.</p>
-
-<p>This gate, in the opinion of Contreras, is of Arabic origin and in the
-Persian style, after which were built most of the entrances to mosques
-of the first period. The square opening is often seen in Egypt, and
-supplanted the more graceful horse-shoe arch. The pilasters are Arabic
-throughout; but the arch balconies, the Byzantine columns, and Roman
-capitals are works of Don Pedro’s time.</p>
-
-<p>The palace of the Alcazar forms an irregular oblong. The Patio de las
-Doncellas or Patio Principal occupies the centre, roughly speaking, and
-upon it open the various halls and chambers according to the usual
-Moorish plan. This <i>patio</i> is absurdly named from its being the supposed
-place in which were collected the hundred damsels said to have been sent
-by way of annual tribute by Mauregato to the Moors. It is hardly
-necessary to say that the damsels would have been sent to Cordova, which
-was the capital of the Khalifate, not to Seville, and that this court
-was among the restorations of the fourteenth century.</p>
-
-<p>The court is rectangular, and surrounded by a gallery composed of white
-marble columns in pairs, supporting pointed arches. The soffite (or<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_52" id="page_52">{52}</a></span>
-inner side) of the arch is scalloped or serrated. The central arch in
-each side is higher and larger than its fellows, and springs from square
-imposts resting on the twin columns. At each angle of the impost is a
-graceful little pillar&mdash;“a characteristic,” observes Madrazo, “of the
-Arabic-Grenadine architecture, such as may often be noticed in the
-magnificent Alhambra of the Alhamares.” Over the arches runs a flowing
-scroll with Arabic inscriptions, among them being “Glory to our lord the
-Sultan Don Pedro; may God lend him His aid and render him victorious”,
-and this very remarkable text, “There is but one God; He is eternal. He
-was not begotten and does not beget, and He has no equal.” This is
-evidently an inscription remaining from Musulman days, and spared in
-their ignorance by the Christian owners of the palace. On the frieze
-will also be noticed the escutcheons of Don Pedro and the Catholic
-sovereigns, and the favourite devices of Charles V.&mdash;the Pillars of
-Hercules and motto “Plus Oultre.” Behind the central arches are as many
-doors with elaborately ornamented arches. On either side of each door is
-a double window, framed with broad, ornamental bands, with conventional
-floral designs. Round the inner walls of the arcade runs a high dado of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_53" id="page_53">{53}</a></span>
-glazed tile mosaic (<i>azulejo</i>), brilliantly coloured and cut with
-exquisite skill. The combinations and variations of the design repay
-examination, and will be seen to extend all round the gallery. This
-decoration was probably executed by Moorish workmen in the time of Pedro
-I. Finally, above the doors run wide friezes with shuttered windows,
-through which the light falls on the gleaming mosaic. The ceiling of the
-gallery dates from the time of Ferdinand and Isabella, but was restored
-in 1856.</p>
-
-<p>Three recesses in the <i>patio</i> are pointed out as the spots where Don
-Pedro held his audiences; but Contreras is of opinion that they are the
-walled-up entrances to former corridors which communicated with the
-Harem. That apartment probably faced the Salón de los Embajadores.</p>
-
-<p>A wide cornice separates the lower part of the court from the upper
-gallery. This is composed of balustrades, arches, and columns in white
-marble of the Ionic order, and was the work of Don Luis de Vega
-(sixteenth century).</p>
-
-<p>One of the doors opening on to the Patio de las Doncellas gives access
-to the Salón de los Embajadores (Hall of the Ambassadors), the finest
-apartment in the Alcazar. Its dazzling splendour is produced by the
-blending of five distinct styles,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_54" id="page_54">{54}</a></span> the Arabic, Almohade or true Moorish,
-Gothic, Grenadine or late Moorish, and Renaissance. Measuring about
-thirty-three feet square, it has four entrances, of which that giving on
-to the Patio de las Doncellas may be considered the principal. Here we
-find folding-doors in the Arabic style of extraordinary size and beauty.
-Each wing is 5.30 metres high by 1.97 broad, and adorned with painted
-inlaid work, varied by Arabic inscriptions. One of these latter is of
-great interest. It runs as follows: “Our Lord and Sultan, the exalted
-and high Don Pedro, King of Castile and Leon (may Allah prosper him and
-his architect), ordered these doors of carved wood to be made for this
-apartment (in honour of the noble and fortunate ambassadors), which is a
-source of joy to the happy city, in which the palaces, the alcazares,
-and these mansions for my Lord and Master were built, who only showed
-forth his splendour. The pious and generous Sultan ordered this to be
-done in the city of Seville with the aid of his intercessor [Saint
-Peter?] with God. Joy shone in their delightful construction and
-embellishment. Artificers from Toledo were employed in the work; and
-this took place in the fortunate year 1404 [1364 <small>A.D.</small>]. Like the evening
-twilight and the refulgence of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_55" id="page_55">{55}</a></span> the twilight of the aurora is this work.
-A throne resplendent in brilliant colours and eminence. Praise be to
-Allah!”</p>
-
-<p>The three remaining portals present graceful round arches, enclosing
-three lesser arches (forming the actual entrances) of the horse-shoe
-type. These last are believed, as we have said elsewhere, to be of
-Abbadite origin. The capitals of their supporting columns are fine
-examples of the Arab-Byzantine style. Above the horse-shoe arches, and
-comprised within the outer arch, are three lattices. The whole space
-within the arch is covered with delicate filigree work.</p>
-
-<p>This hall was once known as the Salón de la Media Naranja (Hall of the
-Half Orange) from the elegant shaping of its carved wooden ceiling. This
-rests upon a frieze decorated with the Tower and Lion, and supporting
-this again are beautiful carved and gilded stalactites or pendants. On
-the intervening wall spaces are Cufic inscriptions on a blue ground, and
-female heads painted by sixteenth-century vandals. Then follows another
-frieze with the devices of Castile and Leon, below which is a row of
-fifty-six niches, containing the portraits of the kings of Spain from
-Receswinto the Goth to Philip III. The earliest of these seem to have
-been painted in the sixteenth century,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_56" id="page_56">{56}</a></span> while the little columns and
-trefoil windows that separate them may be ascribed to the end of the
-fourteenth. The series is interrupted by four rectangular spaces,
-formerly occupied by windows, but now taken up by elegant balconies in
-wrought iron, the work of Francisco López (1592). The decoration of this
-magnificent chamber is completed by a high dado of white, blue, and
-green glazed tiles. It was probably in this hall that Abu Saïd, “the Red
-King,” was received by Don Pedro prior to his murder.</p>
-
-<p>In an apartment to the right of the Ambassadors’ Hall, a plaster frieze
-of Arabic origin, showing figures in silhouette, may be noticed; and in
-a room to the left, other silhouettes, apparently referring to the
-qualities attributed by his admirers to Pedro I.</p>
-
-<p>On the north side of the Patio de las Doncellas lies the so-called
-Dormitorio de los Reyes Moros (Bed-chamber of the Moorish Kings). The
-entrance arch is semicircular, and includes three graceful lattice
-windows, richly ornamented. On either side of the door is a beautiful
-double-window with columns dating from the Khalifate. The doors
-themselves are richly inlaid, and painted with geometrical patterns. The
-interior of the chamber is adorned, like all other apartments in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_57" id="page_57">{57}</a></span> the
-Alcazar, with plaster friezes, and is so richly decorated that scarcely
-a hand’s-breadth (remarks Herr Schmidt) is without ornamentation. To the
-right of the entrance lies a small apartment known as the Sultan’s
-Alcove. Opposite the entrance from the <i>patio</i> are three horse-shoe
-arches belonging to the earliest period of Spanish-Arabic art, leading
-to an <i>Al-Hami</i> or alcove.</p>
-
-<p>From the Dormitorio we may pass into the quaintly named Patio de las
-Muñecas, or Puppet’s Court. It is a spot with tragical associations, for
-here took place the murder of the Master of Santiago, Don Fadrique de
-Trastamara, by his brother, Don Pedro&mdash;a fratricide to be avenged years
-after by another fratricide at Montiel. The Master, after a campaign in
-Murcia, had been graciously received by the king, and went to pay his
-respects to the lovely Maria de Padilla in another part of the palace.
-It is said that she warned him of his impending fate; perhaps her
-manner, if not her words, should have aroused him to a sense of his
-danger; but the soldier prince returned to the royal presence. “Kill the
-Master of Santiago!” Pedro shouted, so the story goes. The Master’s
-sword was entangled in his scarf; he was separated from his retinue. He
-fled to this court, where he was struck down. One of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_58" id="page_58">{58}</a></span> his retainers took
-refuge in Maria de Padilla’s apartment, where he tried to screen himself
-by holding the king’s daughter, Doña Beatriz, before his breast. Pedro
-tore the child away, and despatched the unfortunate man with his own
-hand.</p>
-
-<p>The Patio de las Muñecas is in the Grenadine style. It has suffered
-severely at the hands of the restorers of 1833 and 1843. The arches are
-semicircular and spring from brick pillars, which are supported by
-marble columns with rich capitals. The arches, which form an arcade
-round the court, are decorated with fine mosaic and trellis (<i>ajaraca</i>)
-work. The whole is tastefully painted. The arches vary in size, that
-looking towards the Ambassadors’ Hall being almost pear-shaped. The
-columns are of different colours, and the pillars they uphold are
-inscribed with Cufic characters. The upper part of the <i>patio</i> reveals a
-not very skilful attempt to imitate the lower.</p>
-
-<p>“The Ambassadors’ Hall as well as the Puppet’s Court,” says Pedro de
-Madrazo, “are surrounded by elegant saloons, commencing at the principal
-façade of the Alcazar, running round the north-west angle of the
-building, adjoining the galleries of the gardens del Principe, de la
-Gruta, and de la Danza, and terminating at the south-eastern angle of
-the Patio de las Doncellas. Here is now the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_59" id="page_59">{59}</a></span> chapel, and there it is
-believed that the luxurious apartment of the Caracol (inhabited by Maria
-de Padilla) stood. This part was, without doubt, that which was called
-the Palacio del Yeso, or Stucco Palace, on account of the plaster
-decorations in the fashion of Granada; but in which of these rooms Don
-Pedro was playing draughts when the Master of Santiago appeared before
-him, it is impossible to say with certainty.”</p>
-
-<p>The Salón del Principe occupies the upper floor of the chief façade, and
-receives light through the beautiful <i>ajimices</i> or twin-windows so
-noticeable from without. This spacious hall is divided into three
-compartments, each of which has a fine ceiling. Two have been restored,
-but the third was the work of Juan de Simancas in the year 1543. The
-scheme of decoration is Moorish. The columns in this hall and the
-adjoinng apartments are of marble, with rich capitals. According to
-Zurita (quoted by Madrazo), these columns came from the royal palace at
-Valencia, after the defeat of Pedro of Aragon by the King of Castile.</p>
-
-<p>The oratory was built by order of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1504. It
-contains an admirable retablo in blue glazed tiles&mdash;probably the finest
-work of the kind in Spain&mdash;designed by an Italian, Francesco Niculoso.
-The centre-piece represents<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_60" id="page_60">{60}</a></span> the Visitation. It is believed that some
-parts of the work were drawn by Pedro Millán, a sculptor of Seville.</p>
-
-<p>The oratory is on the upper floor of the palace. On the same storey is
-the Comedor, or dining-hall, a long, narrow room with a fine
-fifteenth-century ceiling, and good tapestries on the walls. A more
-interesting apartment is the bed-chamber of Don Pedro, which has a good
-carved roof and dados of <i>azulejos</i> and stucco. Over the door four heads
-may be seen painted. They represent the skulls of the corrupt judges on
-whom the unjust king executed summary justice. The decoration of this
-chamber is of the sixteenth century.</p>
-
-<p>The royal apartments on this floor contain several important works of
-art. In the room of the Infantes is a portrait of Maria Luisa by Goya.
-The Salón Azul (Blue Room), so-called from the colour of its tapestries,
-contains some fine pastel paintings by Muraton, and some notable
-miniatures on ivory. The portraits of the family of Isabel II. by
-Bartolomé López are worthy of inspection.</p>
-
-<p>Returning to the ground floor, we enter the spacious Salón de Carlos V.,
-occupying one side of the Patio de las Doncellas. Here, it is asserted,
-St Ferdinand died; but it is more probable that<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_61" id="page_61">{61}</a></span> he expired in the old
-Moorish Alcazar. The fine ceiling, decorated with the heads of warriors
-and ladies, was built by the Emperor after whom the hall is named. The
-stucco and the work are very beautiful.</p>
-
-<p>An uninteresting apartment was erected by Ferdinand VI. over the famous
-Baths of Maria de Padilla, which are approached through an arched
-entrance, and, surrounded by thick walls, have more the appearance of a
-dungeon than of a resort of Love and Beauty. The pool still remains
-where the lovely favourite bathed her fair limbs. In her time it had no
-other roof than the blue sky of Andalusia, and no further protection
-from prying eyes than that afforded by the orange and lemon trees. At
-Pedro’s court it was esteemed a mark of gallantry and loyalty to drink
-the waters of the bath, after Maria had performed her ablutions.
-Observing that one of his knights refrained from this act of homage, the
-king questioned him and elicited the reply, “I dare not drink of the
-water, lest, having tasted the sauce, I should covet the partridge.”
-These baths were no doubt used by the ladies of the harem in Moorish
-days.</p>
-
-<p>The gardens of the Alcazar form a delicious pleasaunce, where the orange
-and the citron diffuse their fragrance, and fairy-like fountains spring
-up<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_62" id="page_62">{62}</a></span> suddenly beneath the unwary passenger’s feet, sprinkling him with a
-cooling and perhaps not unwelcome dew. But this paradise has its
-serpent, and that is the truculent shade of the cruel king, which for
-ever seems to haunt the Alcazar. Here Pedro prowled one day, when four
-candidates for the office of judge presented themselves before him. To
-test their fitness for the post, the king pointed to an orange floating
-on the surface of a pool close by. He asked each of the lawyers in
-succession what the floating object was. The three first replied without
-consideration, “An orange, sire.” But the fourth drew the fruit from the
-water with his staff, glanced at it, and replied with absolute accuracy,
-“<i>Half</i> an orange, sire.” He was appointed to the vacant magistracy.</p>
-
-<p>Before leaving the Alcazar, we will briefly summarise the history of its
-transformations and reconstructions. As we have seen, the palace
-generally may be considered the work of Don Pedro. In the reign of Juan
-II., the Salón de los Embajadores was enriched with its fine cupola. A
-tablet, discovered in 1843, testifies that the architect was Don Diego
-Roiz, and that the artisans employed in the work were made freemen of
-the city.</p>
-
-<p>Various parts of the building were built or re<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_63" id="page_63">{63}</a></span>constructed by order of
-Ferdinand and Isabella. The architects were for the most part
-Christianised Moors, among whom are mentioned Maestre Mohammed Agudo
-(1479), Juan Fernandez (1479), Diego Fernandez (1496), and Francisco
-Fernandez. The latter was appointed Master of the Alcazar in 1502, and
-previous to his adoption of Catholicism was named Hamet Kubeji.
-According to Gestoso y Perez, a surprising number of artificers and
-craftsmen were engaged about the Alcazar at this time, a powerful
-inducement being exemption from taxes and military service. The names of
-Juan and Francisco de Limpias (1479-1540) have been preserved among the
-carpenters; and Diego Sanchez (1437), Alfonso Ruiz (1479), and the two
-Sanchez de Castro (1500), among the painters.</p>
-
-<p>Several improvements were carried out under Charles V. and Philip II.,
-and a great deal of restoration was unfortunately necessitated by the
-fires which seemed to break out with increasing frequency during the
-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Still more disastrous was the
-effect of the great earthquake of 1755. Then began the reign of the
-vandal, which did more damage to the palace than time, fire, and
-earthquake combined.</p>
-
-<p>In 1762, the minister Wall ordered the Alcazar to be repaired in “the
-modern manner.” The<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_64" id="page_64">{64}</a></span> ceilings which had been destroyed by fire were
-replaced by others much too low, and valuable arabesques were recklessly
-sacrificed. In 1805, some director with a genius for transmogrification
-whitewashed the fine stucco work in the Salon del Principe, and altered
-the main entrance. He also substituted a plaster ceiling for the
-bowl-shaped Arab roofing, and made strenuous efforts to impair the
-beauty of the Ambassadors’ Hall. In 1833 a reaction took place. Don
-Joaquin Cortes and Señor Raso effected an artistic and sympathetic
-restoration both of the Prince’s Hall and the Patio de las Muñecas. A
-more serious restoration was begun in 1842, at the instance of the
-administrator, Don Domingo de Alcega. The artist Becquer contributed
-materially to the success of the work. In the ’fifties, the task of
-replacing and restoring the stucco ornamentation was completed; and
-under Isabel II. the thirty-six arches of the Patio de las Doncellas
-were restored. Since that date the reconstructions have not always
-displayed good taste; but the revival of interest in her ancient
-monuments which has taken place in Spain of late years encourages us to
-hope, at least, that the appalling blunders of the early nineteenth
-century will never be repeated.</p>
-
-<p>After the Alcazar, the most noteworthy monu<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_65" id="page_65">{65}</a></span>ment in Seville, dating from
-the reign of Don Pedro, is the church of Omnium Sanctorum. This edifice
-occupies the site of a Roman temple, and was built by the Cruel King in
-1356. It exhibits a very happy combination of the Moorish and Gothic
-styles. It is entered by three ogival doors, and is divided into three
-naves. To the left of the façade is a graceful tower, the first storey
-of which is Moorish, ornamented somewhat after the style of the Giralda.
-On one of the doors is a shield bearing the arms of Portugal, which,
-tradition says, commemorates the pious generosity of Diniz, king of that
-country, when he visited Alfonso the Wise. If the Sevillians have writ
-their annals true, this goes to prove that an earlier structure than the
-present must have existed here. This, by the way, was the parish church
-of Rioja the poet.</p>
-
-<p>San Lorenzo exhibits the fusion of the contending styles in an
-interesting fashion. It has five naves; and the horseshoe windows in its
-tower were converted into ogives at the time of its adaptation to the
-Christian cult. The arcades of the naves are ogival in the middle, and
-become by degrees semi-circular towards the extremities as the roof
-becomes lower. This church contains <span class="pagenum"><a name="page_66" id="page_66">{66}</a></span>the miraculous picture of Nuestra
-Señora de Rocamadour. Rocamadour, in southern France, was a celebrated
-shrine of pilgrims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.</p>
-
-<p>Several other churches in Seville date from this epoch, and present, to
-a greater or less extent, evidences of the conflict between the Moorish
-and Gothic styles. In addition to those mentioned, Madrazo names the
-following: Santa Marina, San Ildefonso, San Vicente, San Julián, San
-Esteban, Santa Catalina, San Andrés, San Miguel, San Nicolas, San
-Martin, San Gil, Santa Lucia, San Pedro, and San Isidoro. When a mosque
-was converted into a Christian church, the same authority remarks, the
-horseshoe arch was pointed, bells were placed in the minaret, and the
-orientation was altered from north to south, to east to west. The five
-last-named churches were erected in the thirteenth century. Santa Maria
-de las Nieves was, until the year 1391, a synagogue. The decoration is
-in the plateresco style, and the doors are Gothic. The church contains a
-painting by Luis de Vargas, and a picture attributed to Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>Nearly in the centre of the city is the Convent of Santa Inés, with a
-beautiful and tastefully restored chapel. The façade is ancient and
-graceful. This church contains the remains (said to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_67" id="page_67">{67}</a></span> be uncorrupted) of
-the foundress, Doña Maria Coronel, one of Don Pedro’s numerous victims.
-That monarch had conceived a violent passion for her, in the hopes of
-gratifying which he put her husband to death in the Torre del Oro. The
-widow, far from yielding to his solicitations, took the veil, and at
-last, to secure herself from his persecutions, destroyed her beauty by
-means of vitriol&mdash;a species of self-immolation much applauded by the
-devout in the ages of faith. Her sister, Doña Aldonza, was less
-successful in resisting the ardent monarch, but died, in the odour of
-sanctity, Abbess of Santa Inés.</p>
-
-<p>Among the secular buildings erected under the Castilian <i>régime</i> was the
-existing Tower of Don Fadrique, standing in the gardens of the Convent
-of the Poor Clares. It was named after the son of St Ferdinand and
-Beatriz of Swabia, who was put to death by Alfonso el Sabio in 1276. The
-tower is a fine square structure of Roman workmanship, seemingly, in its
-lowest floor, and showing a mixture of Moorish and Gothic architecture
-in its upper half. It formed part of a sumptuous palace erected in 1252,
-and bestowed in 1289 on the Poor Clares by King Sancho the Brave.</p>
-
-<p>In the Calle Guzman el Bueno is a mansion<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_68" id="page_68">{68}</a></span> called the Casa Olea. It
-contains a fine hall, 8½ metres square, the work of Moorish artisans of
-the time of Don Pedro. The beautiful inlaid and gilded <i>artesonado</i>
-ceiling was removed about a century ago; light is admitted through
-windows of the horseshoe pattern, and the decorations consist of the
-characteristic stucco-work, latticing, and <i>ajaraca</i> or trellis-work, as
-fine as any to be seen at the Lindaraja of Granada. The dado of coloured
-tiles has almost completely disappeared. The Palacio de Montijo, near
-the church of Omnium Sanctorum, reveals many traces of Mudejar
-workmanship, as also does a hall in the <i>Casa morisca</i> of the Calle de
-Abades&mdash;not to be confounded with the Casa de Abades, belonging to the
-Renaissance.</p>
-
-<p>Seville in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries possessed no doubt
-many palaces and private dwellings of magnificence; but it was in
-ecclesiastical architecture that the spirit of the age found its truest
-expression and noblest monuments.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_69" id="page_69">{69}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="THE_CATHEDRAL" id="THE_CATHEDRAL"></a>THE CATHEDRAL</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">On</span> the eighth day of July in the year 1401, the Dean and Chapter of
-Seville assembled in the Court of the Elms, and solemnly resolved that,
-the Cathedral having been practically ruined by recent earthquakes, a
-new one should be built so splendid that it should have no equal; and
-that, if the revenue of the See should not prove sufficient for the cost
-of the undertaking, each one present should contribute from his own
-stipend as much as might be necessary. Then uprose a zealous prebendary,
-and cried, “Let us build a church so great that those who come after us
-may think us mad to have attempted it!”</p>
-
-<p>Such was the greatness of spirit in which the foundation of the existing
-Cathedral of Seville was undertaken. And the result is worthy of the
-deep and fervid zeal of those old Catholics of Spain.</p>
-
-<p>The church took one hundred and twenty years to build. Pity it was that
-the noble-hearted priests who decreed the raising of the fane should
-never have gazed upon much more than its skeleton! First of all, the
-mosque-cathedral of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_70" id="page_70">{70}</a></span> Yakub was demolished, only the Giralda and the
-<i>Patio de los Naranjos</i>, with the northern, eastern, and western gates,
-being spared. The Royal Chapel was pulled down in 1432, by permission of
-Juan II. The first stone had been laid in 1402; but, strangely and sadly
-enough, the name of the architect who traced the plan has not been
-preserved. Some believe him to have been Alonso Martinez; others, Pero
-García. Fame, we may well believe, was a prize which the pious builder
-esteemed but lightly. His reward lay in the greater glorification of his
-faith.</p>
-
-<p>In 1462, we find Juan Normán directing the works; in 1488, he had passed
-from the scene and was succeeded by Juan de Hoz. Then came Alonso Ruiz
-and Alonso Rodriguez. The building was practically finished when, in
-1511, the cupola collapsed. In 1519, Juan Gil de Hontañon, the architect
-of Salamanca Cathedral, completed the reconstruction, and the cathedral
-may be considered as having been finished, though restorations and
-remodelling of various parts of the edifice have been going on ever
-since, and masons are to this day engaged upon the dome.</p>
-
-<p>This magnificent church is pre-eminent for size among the cathedrals of
-Spain, and ranks third in this respect among the sacred edifices of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_71" id="page_71">{71}</a></span>
-world. St Peter’s covers 230,000 square feet, the Mezquita at Cordova
-160,000, and the Cathedral of Seville 125,000. Our St Paul’s covers only
-84,000 square feet. It follows that this cathedral is the largest of
-Gothic temples.</p>
-
-<p>So stupendous a monument has naturally attracted comment from
-distinguished travellers and critics. All have come under the spell of
-its majesty and massive nobility. Théophile Gautier expressed himself as
-follows: “The most extravagant and most monstrously prodigious Hindoo
-pagodas are not to be mentioned in the same century as the Cathedral of
-Seville. It is a mountain scooped out, a valley turned topsy-turvy;
-Notre Dame de Paris might walk erect in the middle nave, which is of
-frightful height; pillars with the girth of towers, and which appear so
-slender that they make you shudder, rise out of the ground or descend
-from the vaulted roof, like stalactites in a giant’s grotto.”</p>
-
-<p>The Italian, De Amicis, is less fantastical in his rhapsodies. “At your
-first entrance, you are bewildered, you feel as if you are wandering in
-an abyss, and for several moments you can only glance around in this
-vast spaciousness, to assure yourself that your eyes do not deceive you,
-that your fancy is playing you no trick; you approach<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_72" id="page_72">{72}</a></span> one of the
-pillars, measure it, and look at those in the distance; though large as
-towers, they appear so slender that you tremble to think the building is
-resting upon them. You traverse them with a glance from floor to
-ceiling, and it seems that you could almost count the moments it would
-take for the eye to climb them.... In the central aisle, another
-cathedral, with its cupola and bell-tower, could easily stand.”</p>
-
-<p>Lomas, who is no great admirer of the building, admits that “the first
-view of the interior is one of the supreme moments of a lifetime. The
-glory and majesty of it are almost terrible. No other building, surely,
-is so fortunate as this in what may be called its presence.”</p>
-
-<p>The Cathedral is oblong in shape, and is 414 feet long by 271 feet wide.
-The nave is 100 feet and the dome 121 feet high.</p>
-
-<p>The principal façade looks west. Here is the principal entrance (Puerta
-Mayor), and two side doors, the Puertas de San Miguel and del Bautismo.
-Over the central door is a fine relief, representing the Assumption, by
-Ricardo Bellver, placed here in 1885. This entrance is elaborately
-decorated, and adorned with thirty-two statues in niches.</p>
-
-<p>The Puertas San Miguel and del Bautismo are<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_73" id="page_73">{73}</a></span> decorated with terra-cotta
-statues of saints and prelates, the work of Pedro Millan, a
-fifteenth-century sculptor. Herr Schmidt thinks very highly of these
-fine performances. Each figure has life and distinct personality, and
-the treatment of the drapery harmonises wonderfully with the gestures
-and physiognomy of the wearers. The upper part of the façade is poor,
-and dates only from 1827.</p>
-
-<p>The southern façade is flanked by sacristies, offices, and courts, above
-which appear the graceful flying buttresses, gargoyles, and windows, and
-the majestic dome of the main building. In the middle of this side is a
-modern entrance, the Puerta de San Cristóbal, added by Casanova in 1887.
-In the eastern façade are two entrances&mdash;the Puertas de las Campanillas
-and de los Palos&mdash;both enriched with fine sculpture by Pedro Millan; the
-Puerta de los Palos has also a fine Adoration of the Magi by Miguel
-Florentin (1520).</p>
-
-<p>On the northern side of the Cathedral we find the most important remains
-of the pre-existing mosque, the Giralda, already described, and the
-<i>Patio de los Naranjos</i>, with the original fountain at which the Muslims
-performed their ablutions. The <i>patio</i> is entered from the street by the
-Puerta del Perdón, a richly decorated horseshoe arch<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_74" id="page_74">{74}</a></span> erected by Moorish
-hands by order of Alfonso XI., to commemorate the victory of the Salado
-in the year 1340. In the sixteenth century this door was restored and
-adorned with sculptures. The colossal statues of Saints Peter and Paul,
-in terra-cotta, are the work of Miguel Florentin. He was among the
-earliest of the Renaissance sculptors to settle in Spain. By him also is
-the relief of the Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple,
-celebrating the substitution of the Lonja or Bourse for this gate as a
-rendezvous for merchants. The plateresco work was executed by Bartolomé
-López in 1522. The doors date from Alfonso’s reign, and are faced with
-bronze plates, on which are Arabic inscriptions.</p>
-
-<p>Close to the Puerta del Perdón is a shrine built in the wall with a
-Christ on the Cross by Luis de Vargas.</p>
-
-<p>Entering the <i>patio</i>, to the right we find the Sagrario, or parish
-church, and to the left (reached by a staircase) the Biblioteca
-Colombina or Chapter Library, founded by Fernando Colon, son of
-Christopher Columbus. Among the treasures it contains are a manuscript
-of the great discoverer’s travels, with notes in his own hand; a
-manuscript tract, written by him in prison, to prove that the existence
-of America was not contrary to Scripture;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_75" id="page_75">{75}</a></span> the sword of Garcia Perez de
-Vargas, the great hero of the conquest of Seville, and a very
-interesting thirteenth-century translation of the Bible.</p>
-
-<p>The northern façade of the Cathedral is entered through three portals,
-the westernmost of which, the Puerta del Sagrario, is unfinished. The
-Puerta de los Naranjos and the Puerta del Lagarto lead from the <i>patio</i>.
-The Puerta del Lagarto retains some traces of its Moorish origin. It is
-named after the patched and painted stuffed alligator, which has hung
-here since about the thirteenth century. Here may also be seen a huge
-elephant’s tusk, and a bridle said to have belonged to the Cid.</p>
-
-<p>Referring more particularly to the exterior of the Cathedral, Caveda
-says: “The general effect is truly majestic. The open-work parapets
-which crown the roofs, the graceful lanterns of the eight winding stairs
-that ascend in the corners to the vaults and galleries, the flying
-buttresses that spring lightly from aisle to nave, as the jets of a
-cascade from cliff to cliff, the slender pinnacles that cap them, the
-proportions of the arms of the transept and of the buttresses supporting
-the side walls, the large pointed windows that open, one above another,
-just as the aisles and chapels to which they belong rise over each
-other, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_76" id="page_76">{76}</a></span> pointed portals and entrances&mdash;all these combine in an
-almost miraculous manner, although lacking the wealth of detail, the
-airy grace, and the delicate elegance that characterise the cathedrals
-of Léon and Burgos.”</p>
-
-<p>Entering the church, the gloom renders it difficult for a time to
-distinguish its exact configuration. We find it is divided into a nave
-and four aisles, the former being fifty feet in width. The fine marble
-floor was laid in the years 1787 to 1795. There is little ornamentation,
-the interior displaying a noble simplicity, the beautiful effect being
-produced mainly by the grandeur and symmetry of the vaultings, archings,
-and pillars. The seventy-four exquisite stained-glass windows, however,
-form a decorative series of the richest kind. They are, for the most
-part, the work of northern artists. Micer Cristóbal Aleman (Master
-Christoph the German) began the first&mdash;the first stained-glass window
-seen in Seville&mdash;in 1504, the work being carried on by the German
-Heinrich, the Flemings Bernardino of Zeeland and Juan Bernardino, Carlos
-of Bruges, and the great master Arnao of Flanders. The two latter
-designers are said to have received ninety thousand ducats for their
-work. The last window was completed in 1662 by a Spaniard named Juan
-Bautista de Léon.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_77" id="page_77">{77}</a></span> The finest windows are generally considered to be
-those representing the Ascension, St Mary Magdalen, Lazarus, and the
-Entry into Jerusalem, by Arnao the Fleming and his brother (1525), and
-the Resurrection, by Carlos of Bruges (1558).</p>
-
-<p>Passing up the nave, from the Puerta Mayor, we find midway between that
-entrance and the choir the Tomb of Fernando Colon, son of the great
-Columbus&mdash;“who would have been considered a great man,” says Ford, “had
-he been the son of a less great father.” The slab is engraved with
-pictures of the discoverer’s vessels, and the inscription, <i>À Castilla y
-á León Mundo nuevo dio Colon</i>. At this spot, during Holy Week, is set up
-the <i>Monumento</i>, an enormous wooden temple in the shape of a Greek
-cross, in which the Sacrament is enshrined. The structure was made by
-Antonio Florentin in 1544.</p>
-
-<p>Extending to the middle of the nave is the Coro or Choir, open towards
-the east or High Altar. The <i>trascoro</i> or choir-screen is faced with
-marbles, eight columns of red <i>breccia</i> being especially fine. The
-marble reliefs are fine examples of Genoese work. Over the altar is a
-fourteenth-century painting of the Madonna, and there is also a picture
-by Pacheco, the inquisitor, representing St Ferdinand receiving the keys
-of Seville from<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_78" id="page_78">{78}</a></span> “Axataf.” The side walls of the choir accommodate four
-little chapels, exhibiting a harmonious combination of the Gothic and
-plateresco styles in translucent alabaster. The Capilla de la Concepcion
-contains one of the finest examples of statuary in the Cathedral&mdash;the
-Virgin, by Juan Martinez Montañez. Ford says, “This sweet and dignified
-model was the favourite of his great pupil, Alonso Cano.” The choir was
-severely injured by the collapse of the dome in 1888. The pillars and
-baldachino are richly adorned with Gothic figures and stonework. The
-fine gilt railing is the work of Sancho Muñoz (1519). But the chief
-glory of the choir is its exquisitely carved stalls, 117 in number,
-executed between 1475 and 1548, by Nufro Sanchez, Dancart, and Guillen.
-Moorish influence may be traced in the patterns and the coloured inlaid
-work of the chairbacks. The handsome lectern bespeaks the skill of
-Bartolomé Morel. Till the collapse of the dome, the choir was the
-repository of a number of priceless missals, illuminated in the
-fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The organs are huge but
-inartistic. As instruments, they are beyond all praise. The older,
-dating from 1777, was built by Jorge Bosch, the other by Valentin
-Verdalonga in 1817.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_79" id="page_79">{79}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>“Between the choir and High Altar is put up during Holy Week the
-exquisite bronze candlestick, 25 feet high, called El Tenebrario, one of
-the finest specimens of bronze work of the sixteenth century that exists
-(it may be seen in the Sacristy), and wrought, in 1562, by Morel; when
-the <i>Miserere</i> is sung, it is lighted with thirteen candles, twelve of
-which are put out one after another, indicating that the Apostles
-deserted Christ; one alone of white wax is left burning, and is a symbol
-of the Virgin, true to the last. At Easter, also, the Ciro Pascual or
-fount candle, equal to a large marble pillar, 24 feet high, and weighing
-seven or eight hundredweight of wax, is placed to the left of the High
-Altar” (Ford).</p>
-
-<p>Facing the choir stands the isolated Capilla Mayor, containing the High
-Altar. It is enclosed on three sides by a railing of wrought iron, and
-on the fourth by a superb Gothic retablo. Schmidt considers this work
-the quintessence of late Gothic sculpture. The middle parts date from
-the fifteenth, the outer from the sixteenth century. The ornamentation
-is of extraordinary delicacy and richness. It is divided into forty-five
-compartments, each containing subjects from the Scriptures and the lives
-of the saints in sculpture painted and gilded. It is crowned by a
-crucifix<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_80" id="page_80">{80}</a></span> and the statues of the Virgin and St John. This fine
-altar-piece was begun by the Fleming Dancart in 1479, and was completed
-by Spanish artists in 1526.</p>
-
-<p>Behind the altar is the Sacristy, adorned with terra-cotta statues by
-Miguel Florentin, Juan Marin, and others. Here is kept a reliquary
-shaped like a triptych, presented to the church by Alfonso the Wise, and
-called the Alphonsine Tables.</p>
-
-<p>Behind the Capilla Mayor, at the eastern extremity of the nave, is the
-Capilla Real (Royal Chapel). The building&mdash;which, as Ford remarks, is
-almost a church by itself&mdash;was begun by Gainza in 1514, and finished in
-1566 by his successors, Fernan Ruiz, Diaz de Palacios, and Maeda. The
-chapel is of the Renaissance style, and has a lofty dome. There is a
-handsome frieze showing the figures of children carrying shields and
-lances. The chapel is divided by light pillars into seven compartments,
-of which the midmost is occupied by the altar of the Virgin de los
-Reyes. This image was the gift of St Louis of France to St Ferdinand.
-“It is of great archæological interest,” says Ford; “it is made like a
-movable lay-figure; the hair is of spun gold, and the shoes are like
-those used in the thirteenth<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_81" id="page_81">{81}</a></span> century, ornamented with the lilies of
-France and the word “Amor.” In 1873, the fine gold crown belonging to
-this image [a sixteenth-century work] was stolen. This image is seated
-on a silver throne, thirteenth-century work, embossed with the arms of
-Castile and Leon.” The body of St Ferdinand, remarkably well preserved,
-is contained in a silver urn, placed on the original sepulchre, which is
-engraved with epitaphs in Latin, Spanish, Hebrew, and Arabic. In the
-vault beneath is the ivory figure of the Virgin de las Batallas, which
-the king always carried with him on his campaigns. It is a fine piece of
-Gothic statuary. Ferdinand’s sword is also preserved in this chapel.
-Here are the tombs of Alfonso el Sabio, of Beatriz of Swabia, his
-mother, of Pedro I., Maria de Padilla, and various Infantes. An
-interesting trophy is the flag of the Polish Legion of the French army,
-taken by the Spaniards at Bailen. The twelve statues in the entrance to
-the Capilla Real are after the designs of Peter Kempener; there is a
-Mater Dolorosa by Murillo in the sacristy. Some of the later work in
-this chapel exhibits those fantastic and grotesque features which became
-common, under the name of <i>Estilo Monstruoso</i>, in Seville.</p>
-
-<p>The entrance to this chapel is flanked by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_82" id="page_82">{82}</a></span> Capillas de San Pedro and
-de la Concepcion Grande. In the south aisle is the chapel of the
-Purification or of the Marshal, containing a remarkable altar-piece by
-Peter Kempener&mdash;exhibiting the portraits of the founder, Marshal Pedro
-Caballero, and his family. Adjacent is the Sala Capitular, in fine
-Renaissance style, the work of Gainza and Diego de Riaño (1531). The
-roof is formed by a fine cupola, supported by Ionic columns, beneath
-which is some admirable plateresco work, with escutcheons, triglyphs,
-etc. The hall contains a portrait of St Ferdinand by Francisco Pacheco,
-the “Conception” and ovals by Murillo, and the “Four Virtues” by Pablo
-de Céspedes. Beneath the windows are seen reliefs by Velasco, Cabrera,
-and Vazquez.</p>
-
-<p>The sacristy (Sacristia Mayor) is in the Renaissance style, and lies
-south of the Sala Capitular. It was built by Gainza in 1535, after
-designs by Riaño, who had died two years earlier. One of the three
-altars against the southern wall is adorned by the beautiful “Descent
-from the Cross” by Peter Kempener (a native of Brussels, called by the
-Spaniards Campaña), before which Murillo used to stand for hours in rapt
-contemplation. This priceless work of art was cut in five pieces by the
-French, with a view to its<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_83" id="page_83">{83}</a></span> removal, and has not been very well
-restored. The sacristy contains also three interesting paintings, dating
-from the early sixteenth century, by Alejo Fernandez; and the “San
-Leandro” and “San Isidore” of Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>In this chamber is kept the treasury of the Cathedral. In it might be
-included the superb silver monstrance by Juan de Arfe (1580-87). It is
-twelve feet high, and richly adorned with columns, reliefs, and
-statuettes. The treasury likewise contains another monstrance, studded
-with 1200 jewels; a rock-crystal cup, said to have belonged to St
-Ferdinand; and the keys presented to that sovereign on the surrender of
-the city. That given by the Jews is of iron gilt, with the words,
-<i>Melech hammelakim giphthohh Melek kolhaaretz gabo</i> (the King of kings
-will open, the King of all the earth will enter); the other key is of
-silver gilt and was surrendered by Sakkáf. The inscription upon it is in
-Arabic, and reads, <i>May Allah render eternal the dominion of Islam in
-this city</i>.</p>
-
-<p>Proceeding along the south aisle, towards the main entrance, we first
-reach the Capilla de San Andrés, the burying-place of the ancient family
-of Guzman. Behind the chapel of Nuestra Señora de las Dolores is the
-fine Sacristia de los Calices.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_84" id="page_84">{84}</a></span> It is the work of those who built the
-Sacristia Mayor. It contains several fine paintings&mdash;the Saints Justa
-and Rufina (patrons of Seville) by Goya (among his finest works), the
-“Angel de la Guarda” and the “St Dorothy” of Murillo, the “Death of a
-Saint” by Zurbarán, the “Trinity of Theotocopuli” (El Greco), a triptych
-by Morales, and “The Death of the Virgin”&mdash;an old German picture. This
-crucifix over the altar is one of the most admirable productions of
-Montañez.</p>
-
-<p>The next chapel (de la Santa Cruz) is adorned by a fine “Descent from
-the Cross” by Fernandez de Guadelupe (1527). The Puerta de la Lonja has
-a fresco, painted in 1584, of “St Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus
-across a River.” A representation of this saint is to be found in nearly
-all Spanish cathedrals, owing to a curious superstition that to look
-upon it secures the beholder for the rest of that day from an evil
-death. This fresco, which measures thirty-two feet high, is opposite the
-“Capilla de la Gamba” (or, of the leg&mdash;of Adam). Here we find “La
-Generacion”&mdash;Luis de Vargas’s masterpiece. “The picture,” says Herr
-Schmidt, “is wholly in the Italian style, and one of the best examples
-of this phase of the Spanish Renaissance.”</p>
-
-<p>The large chapel of the Antigua contains the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_85" id="page_85">{85}</a></span> fine tomb of Archbishop
-Mendoza, by Miguel Florentin, erected in 1509. Here is also a very
-ancient mural painting, after the Byzantine style, of the “Madonna and
-Child,” which was placed here in 1578, and is of unknown and rather
-mysterious origin. The retablo is distinguished by marble statues in the
-baroque style by Pedro Duque Cornejo. The small sacristy behind this
-chapel contains pictures by Zurbarán, Morales, and others.</p>
-
-<p>The Capilla de San Hermenegildo has a good statue of the saint by
-Montañez, and a fine sepulchral monument to Archbishop Juan de Cervantes
-(1453), by Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña, the master of Nufro Sanchez.
-The Capilla de San José contains “The Espousals of the Virgin” by Valdés
-Leal, a “Nativity of Christ” by Antolinez, and an inferior retablo (“The
-Massacre of the Innocents”). The Capilla de Santa Ana possesses a Gothic
-retablo, dating from about 1450, and divided into fourteen sections. It
-comes from the old Mosque-Cathedral. The lower part of the work,
-illustrating the life of St Anne, dates from 1504, the artists having
-been Hernandez and Barbara Marmolejo. From beneath the tribune a
-staircase leads to the Archives, which escaped demolition at the hands
-of the French, through having been sent to Cadiz. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_86" id="page_86">{86}</a></span> last chapel in
-the south aisle (San Laureano) is dedicated to a saint, who, like St
-Denis of France, having been decapitated, performed the unusual feat of
-walking away with his head under his arm. Here is the tomb of Archbishop
-de Ejea, who died in 1417.</p>
-
-<p>On the west side of the Cathedral are five small chapels. The Nacimiento
-chapel contains an admirable “Nativity with the Four Evangelists” by
-Luis de Vargas, and a “Virgin and St Anne” by Morales. To the right of
-the Puerta Mayor is the altar of Nuestra Señora del Consuelo, with a
-“Holy Family,” the masterpiece of Alonso Miguel de Tobar (1678-1738),
-esteemed the ablest of Murillo’s pupils. Facing this is the little altar
-of Santo Angel, with a “Guardian Angel” by Murillo. The altar of the
-Visitation has a good retablo by Pedro Villegas de Marmolejo
-(1502-1569), and a statue of St Jerome by his namesake, Geronimo
-Hernandez.</p>
-
-<p>Near the north-western corner of the church the Puerta del Sagrario
-leads into the Sagrario or Parish Church. This was built between 1618
-and 1662 in the Baroque style by Miguel Zumarraga and Fernandez de
-Iglesias. The width of the single arch of which the roof consists is
-believed to endanger the safety of the edifice. The rich<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_87" id="page_87">{87}</a></span> statues that
-adorn the interior are by Dayne and Jose de Arce. There is a notable
-retablo by Pedro Roldan which came from a Franciscan convent now
-suppressed. The wall of the sacristy is faced with beautiful <i>azulejos</i>
-of the Arabian period, and in one of the side-chapels is a noteworthy
-statue of the Virgin by Montañez. In the vault beneath this impressive
-church the Archbishops of Seville are buried.</p>
-
-<p>Returning to the Cathedral, we find on the left the Capilla del
-Bautisterio or of San Antonio. It is famous for one of Murillo’s finest
-works, “St Anthony of Padua’s Vision of the Child Jesus.” This is the
-picture which was stolen in 1874, conveyed to New York, sold to a Mr
-Schaus for £50, and by him returned to the ecclesiastical authorities.
-This chapel is also remarkable for its <i>pila</i> or font, the work of
-Antonio Florentin, and Giralda windows. Next to it is the Capilla de las
-Escalas, with two pictures by Luca Giordano, “strong in character,
-drawing, and colour,” and the sepulchre of Bishop Baltasar del Rio
-(about 1500); then comes the Capilla de Santiago, with paintings by
-Valdés Leal and Juan de las Roelas, a stained-glass window with the
-richest tones, and the tomb of Archbishop Gonzalo de Mena (1401); and
-the Capilla de San Francisco, with another fine<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_88" id="page_88">{88}</a></span> window, and an
-ambitious “Apotheosis of St Francis” by Herrera el Mozo.</p>
-
-<p>Separated from this chapel by the Puerta de los Naranjos is the Capilla
-de la Visitacion (or Doncellas). The Puerta is furnished with two
-altars, one, the Altar de la Asunción, the other, the Virgen de Belén.
-The former has a painting by Carlo Maratta, the latter a “Virgin and
-Child” by Alonso Cano. The Capilla de los Evangelistas has an
-altar-piece in nine parts by Hernando de Sturmio (1555), which shows us
-the Giralda as it was before the present upper part had been added.
-Crossing before the Puerta Lagarto we reach the little chapel of Nuestra
-Señora del Pilar, with a notable “Madonna and Child” by Pedro Millan.
-The altar-piece of the Capilla de San Pedro, between this chapel and the
-Capilla Real, has paintings by Zurbarán, hardly distinguishable in the
-dim light. On the other side of the Capilla Real is the Chapel of la
-Concepcion Grande, containing pictures relating to the Immaculate
-Conception, and a crucifix attributed to Alonso Cano. Here is also a
-fine modern monument to Cardinal Cienfuegos.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_89" id="page_89">{89}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="OTHER_BUILDINGS_OF_THE_FIFTEENTH_AND_SIXTEENTH_CENTURIES" id="OTHER_BUILDINGS_OF_THE_FIFTEENTH_AND_SIXTEENTH_CENTURIES"></a>OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">Close</span> to the Church of San Marcos is the Convent of Santa Paula with a
-chapel dating from about 1475. The house, which is of the religious of
-St Augustine, was founded by Doña Ana de Santillan and the Portuguese
-Donha Isabel Henriquez, Marqueza de Montemayor. This illustrious lady
-and her consort, Dom João, Constable of Portugal, are entombed in the
-Capilla Mayor in separate niches. The portal of this church is one of
-the richest in Europe. It is magnificently decorated with white and blue
-<i>azulejos</i>, over the arch being seven medallions representing the birth
-of Christ and the life of St Paul, encircled with garlands of flowers
-and fruit, and the figures white on a blue ground. In the tympanum of
-the arch are displayed the Arms of Spain in white marble on a field of
-blue tiles, supported by an eagle, and flanked by the escutcheons of the
-Catholic sovereigns. The <i>azulejo</i> work was jointly executed by
-Francesco Niculoso of Pisa and Pedro Millan. The interior of the church
-is in the six<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_90" id="page_90">{90}</a></span>teenth-century style, and, except for the tombs of the
-Marqueses de Montemayor, not specially interesting.</p>
-
-<p>In 1472 Maese Rodrigo founded a college, which afterwards became the
-seat of the University of Seville, and is now a seminary. Attached to it
-is a chapel built in the first years of the sixteenth century. It is a
-fine example of the late Gothic style. The retablo exhibits good
-painting and carving by unknown artists. The front of the altar displays
-fine specimens of Andalusian ceramic art. “The students of the
-seminary,” says Ford, “wear a scarf of brilliant scarlet upon a black
-gown.”</p>
-
-<p>The most important monument of this period in Seville is the Casa
-Pilatos. It illustrates the fusion of the Moorish and Renaissance
-styles, almost to the effacement of the former. In the architecture of
-this period we usually find an Arabic groundwork nearly obscured by
-ornamentation of the newer style. In the schemes of decoration the
-conventional floral designs and geometrical patterns remain, while the
-inscriptions, which figured so largely in earlier work, disappear. The
-stucco and <i>azulejos</i> no longer cover the whole walls, and the windows
-and doors become larger and less graceful. As Herr<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_91" id="page_91">{91}</a></span> Schmidt remarks,
-effect was no longer sought for in the innately elegant but in bold,
-monumental compositions.</p>
-
-<p>Mr Digby Wyatt (“An Architect’s Note-Book in Spain”) indicates as the
-two special points of architectural value possessed by the Casa de
-Pilatos, “the entirely moresque character of the stucco-work at a
-comparatively late date, and the profuse use of <i>azulejos</i> or coloured
-tiles. It is ... in and about the splendid staircase that this charming
-tile lining, of the use of which we have here of very late years
-commenced a very satisfactory revival, asserts its value as a beautiful
-mode of introducing clean and permanent polychromatic decoration.”</p>
-
-<p>The history of this beautiful building is of singular interest. Its
-erection was begun in 1500 by the <i>adelantado</i> (governor), Don Per
-Enriquez, continued by his son, Don Fadrique Enriquez de Ribera, first
-Marqués de Tarifa, after his return from a two years’ pilgrimage in the
-Holy Land, and finished by Don Per Afan, first Duque de Alcalá, and
-sometime Viceroy of Naples, in 1533. Authorities differ whether it
-received its name from its having been modelled on the House of Pilate,
-seen by Don Fadrique, or from the relics presented to the Duque de
-Alcalá by Pope Pius V. The ex-Viceroy was a liberal patron of the arts.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_92" id="page_92">{92}</a></span>
-He enriched his house with priceless works of art and a fine
-library&mdash;since removed to Madrid. He played the part of Mæcenas to the
-Varros of his generation. Here the wits, the savants, and the virtuosi
-of Spain were made welcome, and here they met together in a noble
-coterie. Among the frequenters of the house may be named Pacheco the
-painter, Céspedes, the Herreras, Góngora the poet, Jauregui, Baltasar de
-Alcazár, Rioja, Juan de Arguizo, and (probably) Cervantes. Herr Schmidt
-tells us that Seville did not stand alone among the cities of Spain in
-boasting such a rallying-point for genius: “In Guadalajara, the palace
-of the Mendozas, in Alba de Tormes and Abadia, the castles of the Duque
-de Alba, in Madrid, the arts were treasured by Antonio Perez; in
-Zaragoza by the Duque de Villahermosa, in Plasencia by Don Luis de
-Avila, in Burgos by the Velascos. These and other families in Spain
-followed the example set by the Medici in Italy.”</p>
-
-<p>The ground-plan of the Casa de Pilatos is Moorish, with an inner court,
-two storeys, guest-chambers, and high outer walls surrounding a garden.
-The exterior is plain and dignified. The portal is of marble, and over
-the arch is the text, “Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, in vanum
-laboraverunt qui ædificant eam,” etc. To the left<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_93" id="page_93">{93}</a></span> of the door is a
-jasper cross fixed in the wall. In October 1521, the Marqués de Tarifa
-returned from the Holy Land, and having traversed the path trodden by
-Christ on His way from Pilate’s house to Calvary, he placed this cross
-on the wall and counted thence the fourteen stations of the cross. The
-last fortuitously coincided with the Cruz del Campo, raised near the
-Caños de Carmona, in the year 1482.</p>
-
-<p>The central <i>patio</i> is markedly Moorish in character, and is encircled
-with arcades of extraordinary symmetry and beauty. Pedro de Madrazo
-calls attention to the harmonious variety and irregularity of the arches
-and windows, comparing the effect thus produced to the admired disorder
-of the forest and plantation. The decoration of the walls and arches
-bears a general resemblance to that of the Alcazar, but on closer
-examination the influence of the plateresco, Late Gothic, and
-Renaissance styles is revealed. The fountain in the middle of the
-<i>patio</i> is adorned with dolphins and four huge statues belonging to the
-best period of Roman art. The chapel is in the mixed pointed and Moorish
-styles. In the vestibule the <i>ajaraca</i>, or trellis-work, the <i>azulejos</i>,
-and the <i>ajimeces</i>, or twin-windows (now converted into ordinary
-windows) recall Moorish art; while the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_94" id="page_94">{94}</a></span> ceiling is in the plateresco
-style. The arch of the chapel is Gothic, and its walls are laid with
-<i>azulejos</i> and stucco. In the middle of the floor stands a short marble
-column, a copy of the pillar at which Christ is supposed to have been
-scourged, preserved at Rome; it was the gift of Pius V.</p>
-
-<p>The room called the Prætorium has a fine coffered ceiling and good
-tiling. The staircase is magnificent. Its walls are faced with
-<i>azulejos</i>, and its ceiling is in the cupola or half-orange style of the
-Salón de los Embajadores. Another room on the upper floor is adorned
-with paintings by Pacheco, the subject being Dædalus and Icarus. The
-view from the roof is perhaps the finest in the city.</p>
-
-<p>The Casa de Pilatos, as might be inferred from the character of its
-founder, is a veritable cabinet of antiques and precious objects,
-marbles and fragments from Italica figuring largely in the collection.</p>
-
-<p>A notable private residence, dating probably in its foundations from the
-beginning of the fifteenth century, is the Casa de Abades, sometimes
-called the Casa de los Pinelos. It passed into the hands of the Genoese
-family from which it derives its second name, and thence to the
-Cathedral Chapter (composed of <i>abbés</i> or <i>abades</i>).<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_95" id="page_95">{95}</a></span> In the sixteenth
-century it became the property of the Ribera family, the owners of the
-Casa de Pilatos. It is described by Madrazo as presenting a fine example
-of the Sevillian Renaissance style, which would appear to be compounded
-of all pre-existing styles. Mr Digby Wyatt, on the other hand, thinks
-the house more Italian than Spanish. But the beautiful <i>patio</i>, the
-dados of <i>azulejos</i>, and the <i>ajimeces</i> looking on the courtyard are
-distinctly Andalusian features. There are also traces of Moorish
-geometrical ornamentation, covered with repeated coats of whitewash.</p>
-
-<p>The Palacio de las Dueñas, more properly the Palace of the Dukes of
-Alba, and sometimes called Palacio de las Pinedas, is a vast and once
-splendid mansion, partaking of the mixed style of the two buildings last
-described. It boasted at one time eleven <i>patios</i>, with nine fountains,
-and over one hundred marble columns. A fine <i>patio</i> remains, surrounded
-by a gallery with graceful columns. The staircase, with its vaulted
-roof, recalls that of the Casa de Pilatos. In the lower part is a chapel
-of the fifteenth century, which has fared very badly at the hands of
-restorers or rather demolishers. This palace was for a time the
-residence of Lord Holland, an ardent admirer of Spanish literature, and
-the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_96" id="page_96">{96}</a></span> author (1805) of a memoir on Lope de Vega and Guillen de Castro.</p>
-
-<p>Other notable residences of the nobility in Seville are the Casa de
-Bustos Tavera, and the Palaces of the Dukes of Osuna and Palomares and
-the Count of Peñaflor. These all date from what may be loosely called
-Mudejar times.</p>
-
-<p>The Church of the University of Seville is of interest. The university
-itself was originally a college of the Society of Jesus, and was built
-in the middle of the sixteenth century, after designs ascribed to
-Herrera. Madrazo thinks it more likely that these were the work of the
-Jesuit Bartolomé de Bustamante. The church forms a Latin cross, a
-spacious half-orange dome covering the transept. The Renaissance style
-is followed. Here repose the members of the illustrious Ribera family,
-their remains having been transported hither on the suppression of the
-Cartuja (Carthusian Monastery). The oldest of the tombs is also that of
-the oldest Ribera, who died in 1423, aged 105 years. The finest is that
-of Doña Catalina (died 1505), the work of a Genoese sculptor. Other
-tombs are those of Don Pedro Henriquez, Diego Gomez de Ribera, Don
-Perafan de Ribera (1455), and Beatriz Portocarrero (1458). Let into the
-pavement is<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_97" id="page_97">{97}</a></span> a magnificent bronze slab, to the memory of the Duque de
-Alcalá, the owner of the Casa de Pilatos. Among the sepulchres are those
-of the founder, Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, whose favourite dog is
-sculptured at his feet, and Benito Arias Montano, a <i>savant</i> who died in
-1598. Over the altar are three paintings: the “Holy Family,” the
-“Adoration of the Magi,” and the “Nativity”; the first by Roelas, the
-other two by his pupil, Juan de Varela. These, especially the first, are
-among the finest pictures in the city. The statue of St Ignatius Loyola
-by Montañez, coloured by Pacheco, is probably the only faithful likeness
-of the Saint. In this church are also to be seen two admirable works of
-Alonso Cano, “St John the Baptist” and “St John the Divine.”</p>
-
-<p>The Renaissance made itself felt in Spain during the reign of Charles
-V., and was productive of the plateresco style. Seville contains two
-imposing monuments of this type of architecture&mdash;the Ayuntamiento (Town
-Hall) and Lonja (Exchange). The first-named was begun in 1527 by Diego
-de Riaño, and completed under Felipe II., about forty years later.
-Madrazo considers the building “somewhat inharmonious through the
-variety, a little excessive, of its lines, but admirable for the
-richness of the decoration and for fine and delicate<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_98" id="page_98">{98}</a></span> execution&mdash;a merit
-of the first importance in structures of this style, where the sculptor
-or stone-cutter ranked with the architect.”</p>
-
-<p>The lower and older storey has three façades, all elaborately chased and
-designed like silversmiths’ work. The central façade, facing the Calle
-de Génova, bears the statues of Saints Ferdinand, Leandro, and
-Isidoro&mdash;symbolical of the temporal and spiritual power. The right
-façade is the purest and most regular of the three. The upper storey,
-belonging to the reign of Felipe II., appears almost plain in comparison
-with the tower. In the vestibule is a noble Latin inscription relating
-to justice. The lower Sala Capitular is a magnificent apartment worthy,
-as Madrazo remarks, of the Senate of a great republic. It is adorned
-with the statues of the Castilian kings down to Charles V., with a rich
-frieze designed with genii, masks, and animals, and with appropriate
-legends. The upper Sala Capitular has a magnificent <i>artesonado</i>
-ceiling. Over the grand staircase are a fine coffered ceiling and
-another in the form of a cupola. The archives of the municipality
-contain several valuable historical documents, and the embroidered
-banner of St Ferdinand.</p>
-
-<p>The Lonja or Exchange dates from Felipe II.’s<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_99" id="page_99">{99}</a></span> reign. The Patio de los
-Naranjos was formerly frequented by the merchants and brokers of Seville
-for the transaction of business, and this practice interfering seriously
-with divine worship in the Cathedral, the Archbishop, Cristobal de
-Rojas, petitioned Felipe II. to follow the precedent just established by
-Sir Thomas Gresham and to build an Exchange or Casa de Contratacion. The
-preparation of the plans was confided to Herrera, and the building,
-under the direction of Juan de Minjares, was finished in 1598&mdash;at
-precisely the time, as Ford remarks, that the commerce of Seville began
-to decline. The Lonja in its stern simplicity reflects, like the
-Escorial, the temper of Felipe II.&mdash;a sovereign, unpopular though he may
-have been, in whom it is impossible not to recognise the elements of
-greatness. The edifice forms a perfectly regular quadrangle, and the
-sobriety of the decoration affords a striking contrast to the gorgeous
-profusion of the Ayuntamiento. The inner court is noble and severe with
-its gallery of Doric and Ionic columns. The dignity of the whole has
-been impaired by later additions and restorations. Here are deposited
-the archives of the Indies (<i>i.e.</i> South America), the documents being
-arranged in handsome mahogany cases. They have never been<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_100" id="page_100">{100}</a></span> thoroughly
-gone through and examined. The business men of Seville soon abandoned
-their Exchange, and it is chiefly to be remembered as the seat of
-Murillo’s Academy of Painters, founded in 1660.</p>
-
-<p>In connection with the American traffic of Seville it should be
-mentioned that in the village of Castilleja la Cuesta, near the city, is
-the house where Hernando Cortés died in 1547. The place has been
-acquired by the Duc de Montpensier, by whom it has been converted into a
-sort of museum. The Conquistador’s bones rest in the country which, with
-such intrepidity, he won for the Spanish race.</p>
-
-<p>The Civil Hospital of Seville, otherwise known by the ghastly
-designation of the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas or del Sangre (of the
-Five Wounds or of the Blood), was designed in 1540 by Martin Gainza. It
-is a massive stone edifice of two storeys, the lower Doric and the upper
-Ionic. In the central <i>patio</i> is the chapel in the form of a Greek
-cross, the façade exhibiting a tasteful combination of the three Grecian
-styles. The altarpiece is by Maeda and Alonzo Vazquez. The pictures of
-saints are by Zurbarán, and the “Apotheosis of St Hermenegild” and the
-“Descent from the Cross” by Roelas.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_101" id="page_101">{101}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="BUILDINGS_OF_THE_SEVENTEENTH_AND_EIGHTEENTH_CENTURIES" id="BUILDINGS_OF_THE_SEVENTEENTH_AND_EIGHTEENTH_CENTURIES"></a>BUILDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">About</span> the middle of the seventeenth century there lived at Seville a
-young gallant, Don Miguel de Mañara by name, whose excesses and
-escapades horrified even that lax generation. Marriage with the heiress
-of the Mendozas did not sober him. Of him, at this period of his life,
-this much good may be said, that he patronised and encouraged Murillo.
-But one day something happened: quite suddenly the rake changed into a
-devotee, an ascetic&mdash;a saint in the seventeenth-century acceptation of
-the word. The wine-bibber forswore even chocolate as too tempting a
-beverage.</p>
-
-<p>What had happened to produce this startling reformation? Accounts vary.
-Some say that Don Miguel, traversing the streets in insensate rage
-against some custom-house officials, was suddenly and vividly made
-conscious of the enormous wickedness of his life. A more picturesque
-version is the following: Returning from<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_102" id="page_102">{102}</a></span> a carousal one night, the Don
-found himself absolutely unable to discover his house or the way
-thither. Wandering desperately up and down distressed, and in perplexity
-of mind, he perceived a funeral cortège approaching. Impelled by
-irresistible curiosity, he stepped up to the bearers of the bier and
-asked whose body they were carrying. Came the reply: “The corpse of Don
-Miguel de Mañara.” The horror-stricken prodigal tore aside the pall, and
-lo! the face of the dead man was his own. The vision disappeared, and
-the same instant the Don found himself at the door of his own house. He
-entered it a changed man.</p>
-
-<p>The church and hospital of La Caridad are the existing fruits of Don
-Miguel’s conversion. As far back as 1578, there had existed at Seville a
-confraternity, the objects of which were to assist condemned criminals
-at their last moments and to provide them with Christian burial. To this
-association the reformed rake turned his attention. He converted the
-chapel into a hospital for the sick, the poor, and the pilgrims of all
-nations, and liberally endowed it out of his ample resources.</p>
-
-<p>The edifice is in the decadent Greco-Roman style, and was designed by
-Bernardo Simón de<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_103" id="page_103">{103}</a></span> Pereda. The Baroque façade is adorned with five large
-blue faïence designs on a white ground, the subjects being Faith, Hope,
-and Charity, St James, and St George. Tradition has it that these were
-made after drawings by Murillo at the <i>azulejo</i> factory of Triana. The
-church hardly appears to us to warrant the description “one of the most
-elegant in Seville,” applied to it by Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell. Under the
-High Altar is buried the founder, Don Miguel. His own wish was to be
-buried at the entrance to the church, with the epitaph: <i>Aqui yacen los
-huesos y cenizas del peor hombre que ha habido en el mundo</i> (Here lie
-the bones and ashes of the worst man that ever lived in this world). His
-sword, and his portrait painted by Valdés Leal, are preserved in the
-Hospital.</p>
-
-<p>As a museum of Spanish art, La Caridad possesses great importance. The
-altarpiece, “The Descent from the Cross,” is the masterpiece of Pedro
-Roldan. The two paintings near the entrance by Juan de Valdés Leal
-(1630-1691) are regarded by Herr Schmidt as entitling that artist to
-rank as one of the greatest masters of realism of any age. This opinion
-is not shared by a recent writer (C. Gasquoine Hartley), who considers
-the pictures theatrical, though the exe<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_104" id="page_104">{104}</a></span>cution exhibits a certain power.
-“In one of them a hand holds a pair of scales, in which the sins of the
-world&mdash;represented by bats, peacocks, serpents, and other objects&mdash;are
-weighed against the emblems of Christ’s Passion; in the other, which is
-the finer composition, Death, with a coffin under one arm, is about to
-extinguish a taper, which lights a table spread with crowns, jewels, and
-all the gewgaws of earthly pomp. The words ‘In Ictu Oculi’ circle the
-gleaming light of the taper, while upon the ground rests an open coffin,
-dimly revealing the corpse within.” Murillo said this picture had to be
-looked at with the nostrils closed. For the two paintings Valdés
-received 5740 reals.</p>
-
-<p>Of the eleven pictures painted by Murillo for this church, only six
-remain, the others having been carried off by the French. The subjects
-are “Moses striking the Rock,” the “Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,”
-the “Charity of San Juan de Dios,” the “Annunciation,” the “Infant
-Jesus,” and “St John.” The first picture, depicting, as it does, the
-terrible thirst experienced by the Israelites, is known as <i>La Sed</i>
-(Thirst). Some critics think this is one of the finest of the master’s
-productions. As is usual in his compositions, the figures are all those
-of ordinary Sevillian types.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_105" id="page_105">{105}</a></span> “The personality of Christ in the ‘Miracle
-of the Loaves and Fishes,’<span class="lftspc">”</span> says C. Gasquoine Hartley, “lacks the force
-of the ancient prophet, and the work as a whole is inferior to its
-companion picture.” The “Charity of San Juan de Dios”&mdash;representing the
-Saint carrying a beggar with the help of an angel&mdash;is the best and most
-characteristic of the six paintings. The “Infant Jesus” and the “St
-John” are also very fine. For the “San Juan de Dios” and the “St
-Elizabeth of Hungary”&mdash;<i>El Tiñoso</i>&mdash;(now at Madrid) together, Murillo
-was paid 18,840 reals; for the Moses, 13,300 reals; and for the “Miracle
-of the Loaves and Fishes,” 15,973 reals.</p>
-
-<p>The last building which may be said to rank as an architectural monument
-erected in Seville is the Palacio de San Telmo, now the residence of the
-Duc de Montpensier. In the year 1682 the Naval School of San Telmo was
-founded on the site of the former palace of the Bishops of Morocco and
-the tribunal of the Holy Office. The present edifice, begun, after plans
-by Antonio Rodriguez, in 1734, was not completed till 1796. The palace
-adjoins the beautiful gardens of the Delicias. The façade is exceedingly
-ornate, the decoration being in the Plateresco style. The general effect
-is pleasing, but critics have been<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_106" id="page_106">{106}</a></span> unsparing in their denunciations of
-the structure. It certainly reflects the debasing influence of the
-architect Jose Churriguera (1665-1725), who has given his name
-(<i>Churrigueresque</i>) to one of the most tawdry and tasteless styles of
-architecture.</p>
-
-<p>The Archiepiscopal Palace, adjacent to the Cathedral, is also in the bad
-style of the later seventeenth century. The interior, however, is worth
-visiting for the sake of the noble marble staircase, one of the finest
-in the city. Here are three paintings by Alejo Fernandez, an early
-seventeenth-century artist, whom Lord Leighton considered “the most
-conspicuous among the Gothic painters.”</p>
-
-<p>The Fabrica de Tabacos is a vast building completed in 1757. Apart from
-its size, it possesses no architectural interest, and though a favourite
-showplace for tourists, does not come within the scope of a work of this
-character.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_107" id="page_107">{107}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="THE_PAINTERS_OF_SEVILLE" id="THE_PAINTERS_OF_SEVILLE"></a>THE PAINTERS OF SEVILLE</h2>
-
-<p class="c"><span class="smcap">By</span></p>
-
-<p class="c"><span class="smcap">Albert F. Calvert and C. Gasquoine Hartley</span></p>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">In</span> Seville, perhaps to a greater extent than in any city, even in Spain,
-the country of passionate individualism, art is the reflection of the
-life and temper of the people; and to understand Seville we must know
-her painters. As we look at the pictures of the Spanish primitives, at
-the emphatic canvases of Juan de las Roelas and Herrera, for instance;
-at the realism of Zubarán, or, still more, at the ecstatic visions of
-Murillo&mdash;as we see them in the old Convento de la Merced, now the Museo
-Provincial, in the Cathedral, or in one or another of the numerous
-churches in the city, we find the special spirit of Andalusia.</p>
-
-<p>There is one quality that, at a first glance, impresses us in these
-pictures, so different, and yet all having one aim. It is their profound
-seriousness. Rarely, indeed, shall we find a picture in which the idea
-of beauty, whether it is the beauty of colour or the beauty of form, has
-stood first in the painter’s mind; almost<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_108" id="page_108">{108}</a></span> in vain shall we search for
-any love of landscape, for any passage introduced just for its own sake.
-For, let it be remembered, in Andalusia art was devotional always. “The
-chief end of art,” says Pacheco, the master of Velazquez, in his <i>Arte
-de la Pintura</i>, “is to persuade men to piety and to incline them to
-God.” Pictures had other purposes to serve than that of beauty. They
-were painted for the Church to enforce its lessons, they were used as
-warnings, and as a means of recording the lives of the Saints. In other
-countries, it is true, painters have spent their strength in religious
-art, but almost always we can find as well as the sacred, some outside
-motive, some human love of the subject for itself&mdash;for its opportunities
-of beauty. The intense realism of these Spanish pictures is a thing
-apart; these Assumptions, Martyrdoms, and Saintly Legends were painted
-with a vivid sense of the reality of these things by men who felt upon
-them the hand of God. We know that Luis de Vargas daily humbled himself
-by scourging and by wearing a hair shirt, and Juan Juanes prepared
-himself for a new picture by communion and confession. These are two
-examples chosen out of many. A legend we read of Don Miguel de Mañara,
-the founder of the Hospital of La<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_109" id="page_109">{109}</a></span> Caridad, illustrates this dramatic
-religious sense of Spain. One day in church Don Miguel saw a beautiful
-nun, and, forgetful of her habit, made amorous proposals. She did not
-speak; instead, she turned to look at him; whereupon he saw the side of
-her face which had been hidden from his eyes: it was eaten away,
-corrupted by a hideous disease, so that it seemed more horrible than the
-face of death. It was such scenes as this that the Spanish artists chose
-to paint. But, indeed, it would be tedious to enumerate the examples
-which Spain offers of this curious, often, it would seem to us,
-corrupted sense of the gloom of life, carrying with it as one result the
-passionate responsibility of art. Always, we feel certain that the
-Spanish painters felt all that they express.</p>
-
-<p>And this overpowering, if mistaken, understanding of the presence of the
-divine life gave a profound seriousness to human life. The shadow of
-earth was felt, not its light; and emotion expressed itself in an
-intense seriousness, that is over-emphatic too often&mdash;always, in fact,
-when the painter’s idea is not centred in reality. This is the reason
-why a Spanish painter had to treat a vision as a real scene. We have
-pictures horrible with the sense of human corruption<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_110" id="page_110">{110}</a></span>&mdash;such, for
-instance, are the two gruesome canvases of Valdés Leal, in La Caridad.
-Again and again is enforced the Catholic lesson of humility, expressing
-itself in acts of charity to the poor, so essential an idea when this
-life is held as but a threshold to a divine life. We find a sort of wild
-delight in martyrdom; a joy that is perfectly sincere in the scourging
-of the body. All the Spanish pictures tell stories. Was not their aim to
-translate life?&mdash;the life of earth and the, to them, truer life of
-heaven&mdash;and life itself is a story? Their successes in art are due to
-this, their failures to the sacrifice of all endeavours to this aim; a
-danger from which, perhaps, no painter except Velazquez quite escaped.
-He, faultless in balance, in his exquisite statement of life, expresses
-perfectly the truth his predecessors had tried for, but missed, except
-indeed now and again, in some unusual triumph over themselves. We find
-hardly a painter able to free himself from the traditions of his
-subject. Only Velazquez, controlled by the northern strain that mingles
-with the passion of his Andalusian temper, was saved quite from this
-danger of over-statement. And Velazquez does not belong to Seville,
-though he was born in the southern city on June 5, 1599, in the house,
-No. 8, Calle de<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_111" id="page_111">{111}</a></span> Gorgoja; though the first years of his life were spent
-there, the time of childhood, the few months of work with the violent
-Herrera, the five years in the studio of Pacheco, his master; though&mdash;a
-fact of greater import&mdash;his temper was Andalusian; and though his early
-pictures&mdash;the <i>bodégones</i>, so familiar to us in England, whither so many
-have travelled through the fortune of wars&mdash;are entirely Spanish in
-their direct realism. Velazquez worked contemporaneously with the
-Realistic movement that quickened the arts in Seville in the sixteenth
-and seventeenth centuries, but he worked outside it. This explains the
-silence of his art in Seville. Of the pictures of his youth, painted
-while he was there, none remain, except one in the Archiepiscopal
-Palace, “The Virgin delivering the Chasuble to San Ildefonso”; and the
-authenticity of this picture has been denied until very recently, a fact
-explained by the bad condition of the canvas. To see the wonderful art
-of Velazquez you must leave Seville and visit the Museo del Prado at
-Madrid. Seville is the home of religious art. The habit of her painters
-was serious; in their profound religious sense, in their adherence,
-almost brutal at times, to facts, as well as in those interludes of
-sensuous sweetness that now<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_112" id="page_112">{112}</a></span> and again, as, for instance in the art of
-Murillo, burst out so strangely like an exotic bloom, they reflect the
-temper of Spain. It is contended sometimes that these pictures in
-Seville are wanting in dignity, wanting in beauty. But are we not too
-apt to confine beauty to certain forms of accepted expression? Surely
-any art that has life; has dignity, has beauty; and no one can deny that
-life was the inspiration of the Andalusian painters.</p>
-
-<p>We must remember these things if we would understand the pictures in
-Seville.</p>
-
-<p>But first we find ourselves carried away from the reality and darkness
-of life back to a happy childhood of art, as we look at the three
-fourteenth-century frescoes of the Virgin&mdash;the “Antigua,” in the chapel
-named after it in the Cathedral, “Nuestra Señora del Corral” in San
-Ildefonso, and “Señora Maria de Rocamador” in San Lorenzo&mdash;an art when
-the painter, less conscious of life and of himself, was content to paint
-beautiful patterns. In these three pictures&mdash;all that are left to us&mdash;we
-see the last of Byzantine art in Spain. The figures, with long oval
-faces all of one type, are placed stiffly against a background of Gothic
-gold. Look at “Señora Maria de Rocamador,” as she sits holding the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_113" id="page_113">{113}</a></span>
-Child upon her knees; while two little angels kneel, one upon the left,
-one on the right. She wears a blue robe, partly covered with a mantle of
-deep purple, very beautiful with ornaments of gold and bordered with
-gold braid. A bent coronet around her head stands out against the
-glowing halo; the background is all of gold woven into a delicate
-pattern. It is a picture of pure convention in which is no effort to
-carry the mind beyond what is actually seen; it makes its appeal just as
-so much decoration. This fresco, as well as the “Antigua” and “Nuestra
-Señora del Corral,” have been much repainted&mdash;the ill-fortune of so many
-early Spanish works.</p>
-
-<p>But, in the fifteenth century, a new spirit came into art; and with the
-work of Juan Sánchez de Castro the school of Seville may be said to
-begin. No knowledge has come down to us of his life; we know only that
-he was painting in Seville between 1454 and 1516. In his great fresco of
-“San Cristóbal,” that covers the wall near to the main door in the old
-Church of San Julian&mdash;alas! now spoiled by re-painting and by the
-subsequent rotting away of the plaster&mdash;we find a different, human,
-almost playful treatment of a sacred story. And for the first time in
-Seville, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page_114" id="page_114">{114}</a></span>we see the special Spanish quality, characteristic of the
-whole school from this time to the time of Goya, of rendering a scene
-just as the painter supposed it might have happened. “A child’s dream of
-a picture,” Mr Arthur Symons has called it. San Cristóbal, many times
-the size of life, stretching from floor to ceiling, fills the whole
-picture; he leans upon a pine-staff as he supports the Child Christ upon
-his shoulders, who holds in his hands a globe of the world upon which
-the shadow of a cross has fallen. The other figures, the hermit and two
-pilgrims with staves and cloaks, are quite small; they reach just to the
-Saint’s knees. And this immense grotesque figure is painted in all
-seriousness, as a child might picture such a scene. To understand the
-sincerity of the Spanish painter, we must compare his work with that
-other fresco of “San Cristóbal,” painted, much later, by Perez de
-Alesio, which is in the Cathedral. The Italian picture is an attempt to
-illustrate a popular miracle, perfectly unconvincing; De Castro’s Saint
-compels us to accept and realise what the painter himself believed in.
-This is the difference between them.</p>
-
-<p>In the smaller pictures of Sánchez de Castro that remain to us, such,
-for instance, as the panel of the “Madonna with St Peter and St
-Jerome,”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_115" id="page_115">{115}</a></span> once in San Julian, but now in the Cathedral, we find him more
-bound by convention, less himself. We see the immense debt Spanish
-painting owed to Flemish art. And this influence, always so beneficial,
-the Northern art being, for reasons of race not possible to state here,
-the true affinity of Spain in art, remains, with different and more
-certain knowledge, in the “Pietà” of Juan Nuñez, which still hangs in
-the Cathedral where it was painted. It meets us again in the fine and
-interesting “Entombment” by Pedro Sánchez, a painter of whom we know
-nothing, except that his name is given by Cean Bermudez among the
-illustrious artists of Spain. The picture may be seen in the collection
-of Don José López Cepero, at No. 7 Plaza de Alfaro, the house in which
-Murillo is said to have lived. In all three pictures, and in other work
-of the same period not possible to mention here, we are face to face
-with that special Spanish trait, the pre-occupation with grief, that is
-quite absent from the early fourteenth-century Madonnas, as from the
-simple child-art of De Castro’s “San Cristóbal.” The shadow of the
-Inquisition had fallen; art, the handmaid of the Church, could express
-itself no longer in quaint and beautiful symbols. Instead, it had to
-force itself to be taken seriously, being occupied wholly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_116" id="page_116">{116}</a></span> with emphatic
-statements, its aim an insistence on the relation of human life to the
-divine life.</p>
-
-<p>But the joy of life did not die easily.</p>
-
-<p>Juan Nuñez, once, at least, in those pictures in the Cathedral in which
-he has painted the archangels Michael and Gabriel quite gaily, their
-wings bright with peacock’s feathers, returns to the child-humour of De
-Castro. And Nuñez carries us forward to Alejo Fernandez, the most
-important painter of this early period, much of whose work remains for
-us in the Cathedral and in the old churches of Seville.</p>
-
-<p>Go to the suburb of Triana, and in the Church of Santa Ana there is the
-sweetest Madonna and Child, in which we find a new suggestion in the joy
-of the Mother in her Babe, a human attitude, making the picture
-something more than mere illustration. And we notice a delicate care for
-beauty found very rarely in Seville, perhaps never as perfectly as in
-the work of this painter. The “Virgen de la Rosa” is the name given to
-the picture. The Mother sits enthroned under a canopy of gold, in a
-beautiful robe of elaborate pattern, pale gold on brown. She holds a
-white rose out to her Child. Typical of Fernandez is this fortunate use
-of the flower; typical, too, of his new mood of invention is the small<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_117" id="page_117">{117}</a></span>
-landscape of rocky and wooded country that fills the distance. The
-gracious pose of the Virgin, the beauty in the Child, show an advance in
-ease upon earlier pictures. But the other figures, four angels who guard
-the Mother, all posed a little awkwardly, suggest a scheme on whose
-design the early Byzantine models may have had a forming influence,
-though the result is different enough. For Fernandez understood the very
-spirit of the Renaissance; he saw life beautifully and strongly. The
-attraction of the picture is in its effect of joy, in the charming way
-in which it forms a pattern of beautiful colour, and in its new sense of
-humanity that carries us beyond the scene itself.</p>
-
-<p>And there are other pictures of Fernandez in Seville: the great
-altar-piece in eight sections&mdash;one is a copy&mdash;that tells the story of
-Joseph, Mary, and the Child, in the old Church of San Julian; and there
-is a large “Adoration of the Magi,” the “Birth and Purification of the
-Virgin,” and the “Reconciliation of St Joachim and St Anne,” all in the
-Cathedral&mdash;the first in the Sacristía de los Cálices, and three others
-in unfortunate darkness, over the Sacristía altar. And if these larger
-pictures have not quite the fresh charm of the “Madonna of Santa Ana,”
-in each one we find a real<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_118" id="page_118">{118}</a></span> understanding of beauty, and with it the
-Spanish gift of presenting the sacred stories as drama, just as the
-painter felt it all must have happened. Each figure in these scenes has
-life, has character. No lover of Spanish painting can afford to neglect
-any picture of Fernandez, and no estimate of the early art of the
-country can be true that does not include his work. Of his life we know
-nothing, merely that he came with his brother Juan from Cordova in 1508,
-called by the Chapter to work in Seville Cathedral. But it matters
-little that his life is unrecorded, for the work that he has left is his
-best history.</p>
-
-<p>In these first years of the Sevillian school, when art was sincere and
-young, many pictures were painted, all strong work, all interesting, in
-lesser or greater measure, to the student, even if not to the art lover,
-as showing the growth of a national style. In many cases the names of
-the artists are unknown; no painter has left much record of himself.
-These pictures, which may be recognised very readily, are found in the
-Museo de la Merced, in the Cathedral, and still more in the churches,
-the true museums of Seville.</p>
-
-<p>But fashion in art changes, and the sixteenth century witnessed the
-manifestation of a new mood in painting, the advent to Spain of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_119" id="page_119">{119}</a></span>
-Italian influences of the Renaissance. This is not the place to speak of
-the blight which fell upon art. The distinctively Italian schools were
-only an influence of evil in Spain, and the inauguration of the new
-manner was the birth of a period of great artistic poverty. The main
-desire of the sixteenth-century painters was, as it were, to wipe the
-artistic slate. All pictures painted in the old style were repudiated as
-barbarous, cast aside as an out-of-date garment. The country became
-overrun by third-rate imitators of the Italian grand style, of Michael
-Angelo, of Raphael and his followers. The decorations, as you can still
-see them, of the Escorial, may be taken as typical of Italian art as it
-was transplanted into Spain. All national art that was not Italian in
-its inspiration was looked upon as worthless.</p>
-
-<p>Yet, be it remembered, that the Spanish painters, more perhaps than the
-painters of any other school, could imitate and absorb the art of others
-without degenerating wholly into copyists. The temper of the nation was
-strong. Even now it was not so much a <i>copying</i> of Italian art, rather
-it was an unfortunate blending of style which took away for a time the
-dignity and strength which is the beauty of Spanish painting. Thus,
-Peter van Kempeneer, a Flemish painter, known better in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_120" id="page_120">{120}</a></span> Spain as Pedro
-Campaña, who, strangely enough, was the first to bring the Italian
-influence to Seville, was inspired alternately by the Northern and
-Italian styles; and in such a picture as his famous “Descent from the
-Cross,” still in the Sacristía Mayor of the Cathedral, with its crude
-colour and extravagant action, we find him&mdash;in an effort, it is said, to
-imitate Michael Angelo&mdash;being more Spanish than the Spaniards. Indeed,
-this picture, which made such strong appeal to Murillo that he chose to
-rest beneath it in death, gives us a very curious, left-handed
-fore-vision, as it were, of the marvellous work of Ribera. In the large
-altar-piece, of many compartments, of the Capilla del Mariscal in the
-Cathedral, the first picture painted by Campaña, when, in 1548, he came
-to Seville, we see him a realist in the portraits of the donors, painted
-with admirable truth; but in the “Purification of the Virgin,” the scene
-that fills the lower compartment of the altar, he is Italian and
-demonstrative&mdash;spectacular movement, meaningless gestures, all done for
-effect.</p>
-
-<p>The Italian influence, the <i>buena manera</i> it was called in Seville, is
-more insistent in Luis de Vargas, whose painting was contemporary with
-that of Campaña. He was the first painter of Seville to submit himself
-wholly to Italy, and most often he<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_121" id="page_121">{121}</a></span> was inspired by Raphael. Much of his
-work has perished; of the once famous frescoes, “his greatest gift to
-Seville,” nothing remains except a few colour traces upon the Giralda
-Tower. De Vargas, the pupil probably of Perino del Vagas, brought back
-as the reward of twenty-eight years of painting in Italy much craft
-skill; and his work, as we see it in the “Pietà,” in Santa Maria la
-Blanca, in the earlier “Nativity,” and, even more, in his masterpiece,
-the popular “La Gamba,” both in the Cathedral, gives us a borrowed art,
-academic and emotional. Only in portraiture does he say what he has to
-say for himself. The portrait of Fernando de Contreras, in the Sacristía
-de los Calices, is a portrait of sincerity and character, in which is
-the Spanish insistence on detail, unpleasant detail even, as in the
-ill-shaven cheeks rendered with such exact care. Contrast this portrait
-with his other pictures, so extravagant, with such futile gesticulation,
-to understand how a really capable painter lost his sincerity, as just
-then it was lost in all Spanish painting. In this effort to be Italian,
-De Vargas’ natural gift of reality, as we see it, for instance, in the
-“Christ” of Santa Maria la Blanca, or in the peasant boy of the
-Cathedral “Nativity,” was overclouded, mingled curiously enough with a
-Raphael<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_122" id="page_122">{122}</a></span>esque sweetness. It was not that this painter did not realise
-the scenes that he depicts&mdash;yes, and depicts with passion&mdash;do we not
-know the sincere piety of his life?&mdash;but he used to express them an art
-that was not his own, an art he was temperamentally unfitted to
-understand.</p>
-
-<p>Contemporary with Campaña and De Vargas, the leaders of the Andalusian
-Mannerists, worked a band of painters of second, or even third-rate,
-talent. Francisco Frutet, like Campaña a Flemish painter who had learnt
-his art in Italy, and who came to Seville about 1548, is typical of
-these “improvers,” as Pacheco calls them so mistakenly, of the native
-art. His best work is his Triptych in the Museo, in which again we see
-the same curious mingling of Flemish and Italian types; the Christ, for
-instance, recalling the models of Italy, while Simon of Cyrene, who
-bends beneath the Cross, is nearer to the Gothic figures. Pedro Villegas
-Marmolejo has more interest. His quiet pleasing pictures&mdash;one is in the
-Cathedral, one in San Pedro&mdash;interpret Italian art with more charm, but
-still without originality.</p>
-
-<p>And Marmolejo leads us quite naturally to Juan de las Roelas, and in
-Roelas we have at last a Spanish painter who learnt from Italy something
-more than mere technical imitation. And in spite<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_123" id="page_123">{123}</a></span> of a want of
-concentration&mdash;the accustomed insincerity, the result, it would seem, of
-a too persistent effort to express his art in the art of Venice, in
-which city he is thought to have painted, perhaps in the studio of some
-follower of Titian, he does realise his scenes with something of the old
-intensity. Roelas anticipates Murillo, not altogether unworthily, giving
-us, with less originality, but with much sweetness, an expression of
-that mood of religious sensuousness that is one phase of Spanish
-painting. Seville is the single home of Roelas;<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> here we may see his
-pictures in the Cathedral, in the Museum, and in many of the churches.
-His art is unequal in its merit. In his large compositions often there
-is confusion&mdash;“Santiago destroying the Moors at the Battle of Clavijo,”
-his picture in the Cathedral, is one instance&mdash;spaces are left uncared
-for, the composition is a little awkward, the brush-work is careless, a
-fault that is common to much of his work. The “Martyrdom of St Andrew,”
-in the Museum, is perhaps his most original picture. Here Roelas is a
-realist. And how expressive of life&mdash;Spanish life, are all the
-powerfully contrasted figures that so<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_124" id="page_124">{124}</a></span> truly take their part in the
-scene depicted. In some of his pictures Roelas gives us the brightest
-visions. Such is “El Transito de San Isidore,” in the parish church of
-the saint, a picture in which we see in the treatment of Christ and Mary
-and the child-angels a manner that seems, indeed, to forestall Murillo;
-such, too, are the “Apotheosis of San Hermenegildo,” and the “Descent of
-the Holy Spirit,” both in the church of the Hospital of La Sangre. All
-three pictures are difficult to see: one is hidden behind the altar, the
-other two hang at a great height in the church where the light is dim.
-There are good pictures by Roelas in the University, a “Holy Child,” the
-“Adoration of the Kings,” and the “Presentation of the Child Christ in
-the Temple”; and in this last picture, with its soft colour and human
-gaiety, again we are reminded of Murillo. But a work of perhaps more
-interest, certainly of more strength, is “St Peter freed from Prison by
-the Angel,” which is hidden in a side-chapel in the Church of San Pedro.
-Then, how quiet, with a repose uncommon enough in Spain, is his “Virgin
-and Santa Ana,” in the Museo de la Merced. The figures&mdash;the girl Virgin,
-her mother, and the angels who crowd the space above them&mdash;all have the
-fairness Roelas gives to women; the soft glow of their flesh is
-beautiful.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_125" id="page_125">{125}</a></span> Look at the cat and dog that play so naturally in the
-foreground, beside a work-basket, and what a happy “note” is given by
-the open drawer, which shows the linen and lace within. Certainly this
-picture is more Italian than Spanish.</p>
-
-<p>As the years passed, and art in Seville grew older, many painters trod
-in the steps worn by these others. It is not possible, nor is it
-necessary, to wait to look at their pictures; too often they exaggerate
-the faults of the masters they copied, and by a slavish repetition of
-accepted ideas&mdash;the inevitable fault of the age&mdash;they weakened still
-further native art. And, when we come to the next century, which gives
-us Alonso Cano, sculptor, architect, and painter, described admirably by
-Lord Leighton as “an eclectic with a Spanish accent,” many of whose
-facile, meaningless pictures may be seen in Seville, to the much
-inferior work of the younger Herrera, and to the exaggerated
-over-statements of Juan de Valdés Leal, in whose art Sevillian painting
-may be said to die, we realise into what degradation pseudo-Italianism
-had dragged painting.</p>
-
-<p>But there is a reverse side to the picture. The spirit of Spain was too
-strong to sleep in an art that was borrowed. Already Luis de Morales, a
-native of Estremadura, known as “the divine,” on account<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_126" id="page_126">{126}</a></span> of the
-exclusively religious character of the subjects he painted, and of the
-strange intensity with which he impregnated them, had evolved for
-himself a sincere expression of Spanish art; already Navarrete, the mute
-painter of Navarre, had broken from conventions, and taken for himself
-inspiration from the marvellous pictures of Titian which he had seen at
-the Escorial; already, Theotócopuli, known better as El Greco, was
-painting with wonderful genius in Toledo, pictures, so new, so personal,
-that to-day they command the attention of the world. But Seville does
-not represent these painters.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a></p>
-
-<p>It has been the fashion, since the tradition was started by Cean
-Bermudez, to call Herrera <i>el viejo</i> (1576-1656) “the anticipator of the
-true Spanish school.” Herrera had a studio in Seville, in which worked
-many painters, and among them Velazquez, Antonio Castillo y<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_127" id="page_127">{127}</a></span> Saavedra,
-and perhaps Alonso Cano; and it seems certain that he owes his position
-to-day in large measure to this fact; had he not been for a few months
-the master of Velazquez his impossible art would remain unknown outside
-Seville. For the truth is Herrera said nothing that Roelas had not
-already said better.</p>
-
-<p>His temper was Spanish enough, but his work is without originality, if
-emphatic and personal in a too vehemently Spanish way. Yet it is worth
-while to see, yes, and to study, each one of his half-dozen pictures.
-Even in Seville, Herrera’s work is rare; the “Apotheosis of San
-Hermenegildo,” and the later, more violent “San Basil,” are in the
-Museum, where, too, are the less known, but much better,
-portrait-pictures of apostles and saints; while the “Final Judgment,”
-his most personal work, is still where it was painted in the darkness of
-the Parroquina of San Bernado. One quality we may grant to Herrera; he
-did resist the popular Italian influence. These pictures, sensational as
-they are, with their hot disagreeable colour&mdash;“macaroni in tomato sauce”
-Mr Ricketts aptly terms it&mdash;their mannerism, extravagant contortions and
-splash brush-work, have little apart from this to recommend them. But
-you will understand better<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_128" id="page_128">{128}</a></span> the esteem Herrera has gained if you will
-compare his work with the paintings of his contemporaries; the
-conscientious, academic Pacheco, for instance, the last, and, in
-himself, the most interesting of the Mannerists, or with Murillo’s
-master, Juan del Castillo, the worst painter of Seville, whose pictures
-fill with formal tedium so many buildings in the city. This is why
-Herrera’s pictures claim notice from the student of Andalusian art
-to-day: they form a link in the unbroken chain of the national pictures.</p>
-
-<p>Now turn to Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>You pass at once into a world of realism, a world in which facts,
-obvious facts, are set forth with a downright passion of statement that
-for a moment tricks us; we think we have found life, and, instead, we
-have the outward form, too monotonously literal, and without suggestion.
-Upon Zurbarán lies the weight of the sadness of Spain. It is something
-of this that we realise as we see the thirty or forty of his pictures
-that are in Seville, gathered together for the most part in the Museo de
-la Merced, where the light is so much better than it is in the Cathedral
-and in the churches, though there certainly his pictures seem to be more
-fittingly at home. Each picture is so true to life, and yet without
-life.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_129" id="page_129">{129}</a></span> Look at his Saints, all are portraits, faces caught in a mirror
-that seems to sum up the old world of Spain. Contrast these Saints with
-the Saints of Murillo. What honesty is here; what singular striving to
-record the truth. Note the gravity and simplicity of the Scriptural
-scenes; his conception of the Christ; the intensity of the three
-renderings of the Crucifixion, in which for once Zurbarán finds a
-subject suited exactly to his art; then mark how the peasants<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a> he
-depicts are almost startling in their outward nearness to life.</p>
-
-<p>Look especially at the Carthusian pictures in the Museum, “San Hugo
-visiting the Monks in their Refectory,” the “Virgen de las Cuevas,” and
-“St Bruno conversing with Pope Urban II.” They are typical of Zurbarán’s
-special gift. In the first of these three pictures, which is the best,
-the monks clad in the soft white robes of their order are seated around
-a table at their mid-day meal. The aged Hugo stands in the foreground,
-attended by a boy-page; he has<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_130" id="page_130">{130}</a></span> come to reprove them for dining upon
-flesh-meat. His purple vestments give a note of colour in contrast with
-the white frocks of the brothers. But, as is customary with Zurbarán,
-colour counts for very little, and atmosphere for less, in this picture
-in which all care is given to formal outline and exact expression. Once
-only in the “Apotheosis of St Thomas Aquinas,” also in the Museo, does
-he give us some of that warm colour he should have learnt from Roelas,
-whose pupil he is said to have been. This is one reason why his figures,
-so true to the facts of life, do not live. But no one has painted
-ecclesiastics and monks quite as Zurbarán has done. His sincerity is
-annoying almost; for he tells us nothing that we could not have seen for
-ourselves; we are no nearer than a photograph would bring us to the
-character of these men. Zurbarán was hardly consciously an artist; and
-with all his sincerity, his vision was ordinary. He was a recorder and
-not an interpreter of life, and in gaining reality he has just missed
-truth.</p>
-
-<p>On coming to the work of Murillo it is quite another phase of the
-religious sentiment of Spain that we see developed: we gain an
-over-statement of sweetness, not an over-statement of facts. The spirit
-in which he painted was happier, more<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_131" id="page_131">{131}</a></span> trustful, more personal than was
-that of Zurbarán; he is more Andalusian and less Spanish, and certainly
-better equipped as a painter.</p>
-
-<p>Murillo forms part of your life while you are in Seville, he is more or
-less around you everywhere; and though to some of us, perhaps not
-unjustly, he is a painter we have tried in vain to love, he does express
-in a special way the very aspect of the southern city he himself loved
-with such single devotion. This is why we like him so much better in
-Seville than we are able to do anywhere else. His pictures repeat the
-full life of Andalusia&mdash;its religious emotion, its splendour, its
-poverty, its stark contrasts, its rich sense of life; and his colours
-are the same colours that we see in the landscape, warm and deep, the
-soft, hot light of southern Spain. You don’t visit the Museum, La
-Caridad, the Cathedral, and the churches to see his pictures as a change
-of amusement from the streets; you go because they renew the same
-atmosphere, and offer a reproduction of so much that surrounds you.</p>
-
-<p>No one has ever painted ecstasy with quite the facility of Murillo. And
-in the Museum, where the Capuchin Series and other famous pictures are
-gathered, you can learn all that is essential to his art; his happy
-Saints swim before you in mists<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_132" id="page_132">{132}</a></span> of luscious colour; cherubs flutter
-around as they minister to beggars clad in rags carefully draped;
-Virgins, garbed in the conventional blue and white, their feet resting
-upon the crescent moon, vanish into luminous vapour, their robes rustle
-in the air, and their sun-lighted faces repeat the very complexion of
-Seville. Murillo had neither the power nor the desire to idealise his
-models. His Saints&mdash;St Francis of Assisi, St Felix of Cantalicio, St
-Anthony, St Thomas of Villanueva&mdash;and how many more? are men such as may
-be seen to-day in the streets of Seville; all are alike, the name alone
-differs. His Madonnas are peasants whose emotions are purely human. More
-perhaps than any painter Murillo’s work is personal&mdash;he translated the
-divine life and made it his own common human life&mdash;the fault is that his
-personality is not interesting. And seeing these pictures, and, even
-more, his other work&mdash;pictures hanging still in the churches for which
-they were painted, where they seem to share in the pervading religious
-emotion and to take their part in the life of the building&mdash;the “Vision
-of St Anthony of Padua” in the Baptistery of the Cathedral, for
-instance, or the great pictures of La Caridad; you will understand how
-Murillo came to be idolised in Spain; how his pictures held, for a time,
-the admiration of Europe;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_133" id="page_133">{133}</a></span> and how to-day he has ceased to interest a
-world that has grown older and seeks, above all, the truth.</p>
-
-<p>Murillo was impelled by a desire for realism. There is much of the
-spirit and manner of Zurbarán in his early pictures: “San Leandro and
-San Buenaventura,” two early “Virgins and the Child,” and the “Adoration
-of the Shepherds,” all in the Museum, are examples. The same careful
-characterisation meets us in the much later “Last Supper” of Santa Maria
-la Blanca, his most truthful Scriptural scene. Then his portraits, such
-as those of SS. Leandro and Isidore in the Sacristia Mayor of the
-Cathedral, or that of St Dorothy in the Sacristia de los Cálices, are
-serious studies after nature. Once or twice in his landscapes we find a
-sincerity that surprises us. But a painter must be judged by the main
-output of his art. And the truth is that, with a natural gift that
-certainly was great, added to unusual facility, Murillo’s personality
-was commonplace. His self-assurance amazes us. His emotion, neither
-profound nor simple, but always perfectly satisfied, perfectly happy,
-exactly fitted him to give voice to the common sentiments of his age. He
-did create a sort of life, but his compositions are the work of his hand
-rather than of his soul.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_134" id="page_134">{134}</a></span> All his Saints, his Madonnas&mdash;pose
-unthinkingly in the subtly interwoven light he knew so well how to
-paint, living only in the moment which their conventionalised attitudes
-perpetuate. You do not realise them as personalities greeting you from
-the canvas like the intense, painful faces of El Greco, or the wonderful
-creations of Velazquez; if you remember them at all it is part of a
-pleasing picture. This is the reason why these religious idylls have
-lost so much of their meaning; their over-statement of sweetness cloys.
-Murillo gives us one aspect of Andalusia; it was left for El Greco,
-Ribera, Velazquez, and Goya to interpret Spain to the world.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_135" id="page_135">{135}</a></span></p>
-
-
-<h2><a name="THE_OLD_ROMAN_CITY" id="THE_OLD_ROMAN_CITY"></a>THE OLD ROMAN CITY.</h2>
-
-
-<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">Moor</span> and Spaniard have, between them, effaced almost all traces of the
-ancient Hispalis or Romula, the little Rome; but the sister-city of
-Italica, early deserted by man, has been dealt not too harshly with by
-time. Its remains&mdash;a Spanish league to the north-west of Seville&mdash;still
-attract the artist and the archæologist. There, where the wretched
-hamlet of Santi Ponce now stands, was in the dim past the Iberian
-village of Sancios. Scipio the Elder, after his long and victorious
-campaign, passed this way, and selected the spot as a place of rest and
-refreshment for his war-worn veterans. “Relicto utpote pacata regione
-valido præsidio, Scipio milites omnes vulneribus debiles in unam urbem
-compulit, quam ab Italia Italicam nominavit,” says Appian. Señor de
-Madrazo remarks that this must have been the first Latin-speaking town
-founded outside Italy. It was not at first a municipium, but a place for
-meeting and council of the Roman citizens. The municipal status it owed
-to Augustus. Subsequently, its citizens petitioned to be classed as a
-colony of Rome.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_136" id="page_136">{136}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>The colony proved not unworthy of the great capital. Hence sprang the
-illustrious line of the Ælii, and most of the eminent Roman Spaniards
-who conferred such lustre on the early Empire are believed to have been
-natives of the place. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that the
-citizens should have preferred a nominal dependence on the Mother City
-to the quasi-independence of a provincial municipality. But Italica
-never seems to have been a city in the modern sense of the word.
-Excavations have revealed extremely few remains of private habitations
-or bazaars. The only vestiges are those of great public
-monuments&mdash;temples, palaces, amphitheatres, baths. The Emperors seem to
-have delighted to embellish this small town with ornaments quite out of
-proportion to its size and population, and it is clear that it never was
-a serious rival to its older neighbour, Hispalis.</p>
-
-<p>Its downfall, like its history, is mysterious. Leovigild occupied it
-while besieging Seville, which was held by his son, Hermenigild. Later
-on, the Arabs are said to have demolished it almost completely, and to
-have carried off numerous statues, columns, and blocks of masonry to
-serve in the construction and adornment of the neighbouring city. Then
-Italica disappeared from<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_137" id="page_137">{137}</a></span> history. Earthquakes finished the work of
-ruin, and the scattered stones went to the making of the miserable
-village of Santi Ponce&mdash;a name which some derive from that of San
-Geroncio, a Bishop of Italica in early times.</p>
-
-<p>The amphitheatre is now all that remains to attest the erstwhile
-splendour of the darling colony of the Ælii. It is a melancholy and yet
-a pretty spot, approached through olive plantations. Some of the walls
-are still standing, and enable us to determine the dimensions, which are
-stated at 291 feet length and 204 feet breadth. You may still see the
-Podium or stone platform, whereon the civic dignitaries sate, and the
-upper tiers appropriated to the populace. You may pass down the
-vomitoria, through which the spectators streamed, glutted with the sight
-of blood, and penetrate to the dens and chambers, wherein gladiators and
-wild beasts were confined before the combat. Italica is more a place to
-muse in than to explore. The place has long since been rifled of all its
-treasures. Extensive ruins of what was believed to have been the palace
-of Trajan existed down till the great earthquake of 1755, and all that
-was spared were three statues preserved in the Museo Provincial or
-Picture Gallery.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_138" id="page_138">{138}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Close to the ruins is the convent of San Isidoro del Campo, founded in
-1301 by Don Alonso Perez de Guzman, as a place of sepulture for him and
-his family. The establishment was peopled first by the Cistercians,
-later by the Hermits of St Jerome. The edifice presents the appearance
-of a fortified abbey of the Middle Ages, though not without traces of
-Mudejar influence. The church is Gothic, and divided into two naves,
-united by a transept, and constituting each a distinct church. One of
-these structures was built by the hero of Tarifa, Guzman the Good, and
-contains his tomb and that of his wife, together with a fine retablo by
-Montañes; the other, founded by the hero’s son, Don Juan Alonso Perez de
-Guzman, contains his tomb, marked by a fine recumbent figure, and that
-of Doña Urraca Osorio, burnt by order of Pedro the Cruel. In the
-cloisters of the convent are some mural paintings of the fifteenth
-century, which though much damaged repay inspection.</p>
-
-<p>With the excursion to Italica the traveller should combine a visit to
-the Cartuja, more properly called Santa Maria de las Cuevas. It lies
-close to the suburb of Triana. The monastery was founded in the first
-decade of the fifteenth century, at the instance of the great
-Archbishop<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_139" id="page_139">{139}</a></span> Gonzalo de Mena, and became the burying-place of the Ribera
-family, whose magnificent tombs are now to be seen in the University
-Church. Of the original structure only a little antique chapel remains.
-The refectory, chapter-hall, and cloisters all date from a restoration
-effected by the first Marqués de Tarifa in the sixteenth century. The
-building became, in 1839, the seat of the pottery manufacture of the
-(then) English firm of Pickman &amp; Co. The establishment has produced some
-fine porcelain, and is worth inspection by all those interested in the
-ceramic art. Pottery has been associated from time immemorial with this
-locality and the adjoining suburb of Triana, and it will be remembered
-that the patron saints of Seville, Justa and Rufina, were, according to
-tradition, potters by trade.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_141" id="page_141">{141}</a></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_140" id="page_140">{140}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_1">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 1</p>
-<a href="images/plt_001.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_001.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West Side of the City.</p>
-
-<p>First View.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_142" id="page_142">{142}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_2">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 2</p>
-<a href="images/plt_002.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_002.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West Side of the City.</p>
-
-<p>Second View.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_143" id="page_143">{143}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_3">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 3</p>
-<a href="images/plt_003.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_003.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, East Side.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_144" id="page_144">{144}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_4">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 4</p>
-<a href="images/plt_004.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_004.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, Central Part of the
-City.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_145" id="page_145">{145}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_5">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 5</p>
-<a href="images/plt_005.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_005.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, North Side.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_146" id="page_146">{146}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_6">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 6</p>
-<a href="images/plt_006.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_006.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Procession of the Conception of the Virgin passing through the Plaza de
-San Francisco.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_147" id="page_147">{147}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_7">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 7</p>
-<a href="images/plt_007.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_007.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_148" id="page_148">{148}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_8">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 8</p>
-<a href="images/plt_008.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_008.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_149" id="page_149">{149}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_9">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 9</p>
-<a href="images/plt_009.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_009.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_150" id="page_150">{150}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_10">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 10</p>
-<a href="images/plt_010.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_010.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_151" id="page_151">{151}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_11">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 11</p>
-<a href="images/plt_011.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_011.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_152" id="page_152">{152}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_12">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 12</p>
-<a href="images/plt_012.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_012.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_153" id="page_153">{153}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_13">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 13</p>
-<a href="images/plt_013.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_013.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_154" id="page_154">{154}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_14">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 14</p>
-<a href="images/plt_014.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_014.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_155" id="page_155">{155}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_15">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 15</p>
-<a href="images/plt_015.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_015.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Bridge over the Guadalquivir.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_156" id="page_156">{156}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_16">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 16</p>
-<a href="images/plt_016.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_016.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hercules Avenue.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_157" id="page_157">{157}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_17">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 17</p>
-<a href="images/plt_017.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_017.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Plaza Nueva.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_158" id="page_158">{158}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_18">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 18</p>
-<a href="images/plt_018.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_018.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View of Triana from the Tower of Gold.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_159" id="page_159">{159}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_19">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 19</p>
-<a href="images/plt_019.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_019.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View from Triana.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_160" id="page_160">{160}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_20">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 20</p>
-<a href="images/plt_020.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_020.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View from Triana.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_161" id="page_161">{161}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_21">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 21</p>
-<a href="images/plt_021.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_021.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Tower of Gold from San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_162" id="page_162">{162}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_22">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 22</p>
-<a href="images/plt_022.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_022.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>A Street in Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_163" id="page_163">{163}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_23">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 23</p>
-<a href="images/plt_023.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_023.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Tower of Gold.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_164" id="page_164">{164}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_24">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 24</p>
-<a href="images/plt_024.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_024.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Church of San Marcos, from the Palace of the Dueñas.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_165" id="page_165">{165}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_25">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 25</p>
-<a href="images/plt_025.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_025.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Church of San Marcos.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_166" id="page_166">{166}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_26">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 26</p>
-<a href="images/plt_026.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_026.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Hotel de Madrid.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_167" id="page_167">{167}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_27">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 27</p>
-<a href="images/plt_027.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_027.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hospital, with the Mosaics painted by Murillo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_168" id="page_168">{168}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_28">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 28</p>
-<a href="images/plt_028.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_028.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Portal of the Convent of Santa Paula.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_169" id="page_169">{169}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_29">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 29</p>
-<a href="images/plt_029.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_029.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Church of Santa Catalina.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_170" id="page_170">{170}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_30">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 30</p>
-<a href="images/plt_030.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_030.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Church of Todos Santos.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_171" id="page_171">{171}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_31">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 31</p>
-<a href="images/plt_031.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_031.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Provincial Museum, with Murillo’s Statue.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_172" id="page_172">{172}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_32">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 32</p>
-<a href="images/plt_032.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_032.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Statue of Murillo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_173" id="page_173">{173}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_33">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 33</p>
-<a href="images/plt_033.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_033.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Town Hall.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_174" id="page_174">{174}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_34">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 34</p>
-<a href="images/plt_034.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_034.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Town Hall, Left Side.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_175" id="page_175">{175}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_35">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 35</p>
-<a href="images/plt_035.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_035.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Town Hall, Left Side, Detail of the Interior Angle.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_176" id="page_176">{176}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_36">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 36</p>
-<a href="images/plt_036.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_036.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Door of the Town Hall.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_177" id="page_177">{177}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_37">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 37</p>
-<a href="images/plt_037.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_037.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Town Hall, Detail of the Principal Part.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_178" id="page_178">{178}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_38">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 38</p>
-<a href="images/plt_038.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_038.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Town Hall.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_179" id="page_179">{179}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_39">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 39</p>
-<a href="images/plt_039.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_039.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Town Hall, Detail of the Façade.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_180" id="page_180">{180}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_40">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 40</p>
-<a href="images/plt_040.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_040.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Town Hall, Detail of the Principal Door.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_181" id="page_181">{181}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_41">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 41</p>
-<a href="images/plt_041.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_041.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Window in the Town Hall.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_182" id="page_182">{182}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_42">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 42</p>
-<a href="images/plt_042.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_042.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Principal Façade of the Tobacco Factory.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_183" id="page_183">{183}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_43">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 43</p>
-<a href="images/plt_043.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_043.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Tobacco Factory.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_184" id="page_184">{184}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_44">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 44</p>
-<a href="images/plt_044.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_044.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Cigar Makers, Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_185" id="page_185">{185}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_45">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 45</p>
-<a href="images/plt_045.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_045.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The “Sevillanas” Dance.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_186" id="page_186">{186}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_46">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 46</p>
-<a href="images/plt_046.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_046.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Sevillian Costumes&mdash;A Courtyard.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_187" id="page_187">{187}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_47">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 47</p>
-<a href="images/plt_047.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_047.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Exchange.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_188" id="page_188">{188}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_48">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 48</p>
-<a href="images/plt_048.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_048.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court in the Exchange.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_189" id="page_189">{189}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_49">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 49</p>
-<a href="images/plt_049.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_049.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Aceite Postern and Ancient Ramparts.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_190" id="page_190">{190}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_50">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 50</p>
-<a href="images/plt_050.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_050.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Roman Walls near the Gate of the Macarena.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_191" id="page_191">{191}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_51">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 51</p>
-<a href="images/plt_051.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_051.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Roman Amphitheatre of Italica.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_192" id="page_192">{192}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_52">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 52</p>
-<a href="images/plt_052.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_052.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Palace of San Telmo from the River.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_193" id="page_193">{193}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_53">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 53</p>
-<a href="images/plt_053.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_053.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Principal Portal of the San Telmo Palace.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_194" id="page_194">{194}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_54">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 54</p>
-<a href="images/plt_054.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_054.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior of the Hall of Columns in the San Telmo Palace.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_195" id="page_195">{195}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_55">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 55</p>
-<a href="images/plt_055.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_055.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior View of the Duke of Montpensier’s Study In San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_196" id="page_196">{196}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_56">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 56</p>
-<a href="images/plt_056.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_056.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Various Objects found in the Sepulchres at San Telmo.</p>
-
-<p>(In the Palace of San Telmo.)</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_197" id="page_197">{197}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_57">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 57</p>
-<a href="images/plt_057.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_057.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Palms in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_198" id="page_198">{198}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_58">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 58</p>
-<a href="images/plt_058.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_058.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Sepulchres of the Victims of Don Juan Tenorio in the Gardens of San
-Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_199" id="page_199">{199}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_59">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 59</p>
-<a href="images/plt_059.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_059.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Roman Sepulchres in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_200" id="page_200">{200}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_60">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 60</p>
-<a href="images/plt_060.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_060.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_201" id="page_201">{201}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_61">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 61</p>
-<a href="images/plt_061.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_061.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Aviary in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_202" id="page_202">{202}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_62">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 62</p>
-<a href="images/plt_062.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_062.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The River in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_203" id="page_203">{203}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_63">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 63</p>
-<a href="images/plt_063.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_063.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cocoa Tree and East Side of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_204" id="page_204">{204}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_64">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 64</p>
-<a href="images/plt_064.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_064.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Zapote, a Tree in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_205" id="page_205">{205}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_65">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 65</p>
-<a href="images/plt_065.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_065.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Island and River in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_206" id="page_206">{206}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_66">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 66</p>
-<a href="images/plt_066.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_066.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Yucca, a rare Tree in the Gardens of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_207" id="page_207">{207}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_67">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 67</p>
-<a href="images/plt_067.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_067.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Hospital de la Sangre.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_208" id="page_208">{208}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_68">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 68</p>
-<a href="images/plt_068.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_068.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Church of the Sagrario, North Side.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_209" id="page_209">{209}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_69">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 69</p>
-<a href="images/plt_069.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_069.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Principal Façade of the Hospital de la Sangre.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_210" id="page_210">{210}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_70">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 70</p>
-<a href="images/plt_070.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_070.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Porch of the Church of the Hospital de la Sangre.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_211" id="page_211">{211}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_71">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 71</p>
-<a href="images/plt_071.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_071.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Bas-relief. Hospital de la Sangre, the Work of Torregiano.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_212" id="page_212">{212}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_72">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 72</p>
-<a href="images/plt_072.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_072.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Exterior of the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_213" id="page_213">{213}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_73">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 73</p>
-<a href="images/plt_073.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_073.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Giralda, from the Patio de los Naranjos.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_214" id="page_214">{214}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_74">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 74</p>
-<a href="images/plt_074.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_074.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Top of the Giralda.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_215" id="page_215">{215}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_75">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 75</p>
-<a href="images/plt_075.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_075.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Dancing Choir Boys, Seville Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_216" id="page_216">{216}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_76">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 76</p>
-<a href="images/plt_076.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_076.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Dancing Boys, Seville Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_217" id="page_217">{217}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_77">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 77</p>
-<a href="images/plt_077.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_077.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Gate of the Archbishop.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_218" id="page_218">{218}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_78">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 78</p>
-<a href="images/plt_078.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_078.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de San Francisco, with the Giralda and Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_219" id="page_219">{219}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_79">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 79</p>
-<a href="images/plt_079.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_079.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza del Triunfo, the Cathedral, and the Exchange, from the Gate of the
-Lion.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_220" id="page_220">{220}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_80">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 80</p>
-<a href="images/plt_080.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_080.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Fête.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_221" id="page_221">{221}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_81">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 81</p>
-<a href="images/plt_081.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_081.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gate of San Miguel in the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_222" id="page_222">{222}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_82">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 82</p>
-<a href="images/plt_082.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_082.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gate of the Cathedral called de las Campanillas.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_223" id="page_223">{223}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_83">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 83</p>
-<a href="images/plt_083.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_083.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gate of the Baptist in the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_224" id="page_224">{224}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_84">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 84</p>
-<a href="images/plt_084.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_084.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Gate of the Lizard in the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_225" id="page_225">{225}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_85">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 85</p>
-<a href="images/plt_085.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_085.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Cathedral From the Tribune of the Principal Door.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_226" id="page_226">{226}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_86">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 86</p>
-<a href="images/plt_086.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_086.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_227" id="page_227">{227}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_87">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 87</p>
-<a href="images/plt_087.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_087.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Principal Entrance to the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_228" id="page_228">{228}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_88">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 88</p>
-<a href="images/plt_088.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_088.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior View of the Principal Sacristy in the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_229" id="page_229">{229}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_89">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 89</p>
-<a href="images/plt_089.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_089.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Gamba Chapel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_230" id="page_230">{230}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_90">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 90</p>
-<a href="images/plt_090.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_090.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>The Gamba Chapel and Entrance to that of the Antigua.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_231" id="page_231">{231}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_91">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 91</p>
-<a href="images/plt_091.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_091.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Chapels of the Conception and the Annunciation in the Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_232" id="page_232">{232}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_92">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 92</p>
-<a href="images/plt_092.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_092.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>The Chapel of the Conception.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_233" id="page_233">{233}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_93">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 93</p>
-<a href="images/plt_093.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_093.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>Detail of the High Altar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_234" id="page_234">{234}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_94">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 94</p>
-<a href="images/plt_094.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_094.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>Retablo, or Altar-piece of the High Altar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_235" id="page_235">{235}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_95">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 95</p>
-<a href="images/plt_095.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_095.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Iron Railings of the Lateral Part of the High Altar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_236" id="page_236">{236}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_96">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 96</p>
-<a href="images/plt_096.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_096.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>Wrought Iron Screen in the Choir.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_237" id="page_237">{237}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_97">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 97</p>
-<a href="images/plt_097.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_097.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>Wrought Iron Screen of the High Altar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_238" id="page_238">{238}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_98">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 98</p>
-<a href="images/plt_098.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_098.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Christopher carrying the Child Jesus, by Mateo Perez Alesio, in the
-Cathedral.].<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_239" id="page_239">{239}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_99">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 99</p>
-<a href="images/plt_099.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_099.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>San Fernando Square.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_240" id="page_240">{240}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_100">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 100</p>
-<a href="images/plt_100.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_100.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_241" id="page_241">{241}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_101">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 101</p>
-<a href="images/plt_101.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_101.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_242" id="page_242">{242}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_102">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 102</p>
-<a href="images/plt_102.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_102.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-<p>View of the Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_243" id="page_243">{243}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_103">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 103</p>
-<a href="images/plt_103.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_103.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-<p>General View of the Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_244" id="page_244">{244}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_104">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 104</p>
-<a href="images/plt_104.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_104.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-<p>The Gardens of the Alcazar. Lake and Gallery of Don Pedro I. the
-Cruel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_245" id="page_245">{245}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_105">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 105</p>
-<a href="images/plt_105.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_105.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-<p>The Gardens of the Alcazar. View of the Gallery of Don Pedro I., the
-Cruel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_246" id="page_246">{246}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_106">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 106</p>
-<a href="images/plt_106.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_106.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Hothouses in the Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_247" id="page_247">{247}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_107">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 107</p>
-<a href="images/plt_107.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_107.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Calle de las Vedras in the Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_248" id="page_248">{248}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_108">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 108</p>
-<a href="images/plt_108.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_108.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Gardens of the Alcazar.</p>
-
-<p>Parterre of Doña Maria de Padilla.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_249" id="page_249">{249}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_109">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 109</p>
-<a href="images/plt_109.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_109.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Alcazar. Baths of Doña Maria de Padilla.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_250" id="page_250">{250}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_110">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 110</p>
-<a href="images/plt_110.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_110.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Magnificent Altar in Faience painted in the 15th Century.</p>
-
-<p>In the Oratory of the Catholic Sovereigns in the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_251" id="page_251">{251}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_111">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 111</p>
-<a href="images/plt_111.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_111.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Town Hall of Seville.</p>
-
-<p>Details of Doors and Balconies.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_252" id="page_252">{252}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_112">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 112</p>
-<a href="images/plt_112.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_112.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Town Hall of Seville. Details.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_253" id="page_253">{253}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_113">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 113</p>
-<a href="images/plt_113.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_113.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Parish Church of San Marcos.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_254" id="page_254">{254}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_114">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 114</p>
-<a href="images/plt_114.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_114.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Various Towers of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_255" id="page_255">{255}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_115">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 115</p>
-<a href="images/plt_115.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_115.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Details of the Mosaic commonly called El Grande.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_256" id="page_256">{256}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_116">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 116</p>
-<a href="images/plt_116.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_116.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Sculpture and Details of Ancient Churches.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_257" id="page_257">{257}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_117">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 117</p>
-<a href="images/plt_117.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_117.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Architectural Parts, Bas-reliefs, and Ceramic Objects.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_258" id="page_258">{258}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_118">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 118</p>
-<a href="images/plt_118.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_118.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Façade of the Consistorial Houses.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_259" id="page_259">{259}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_119">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 119</p>
-<a href="images/plt_119.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_119.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Entrance to the Alcazar, Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_260" id="page_260">{260}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_120">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 120</p>
-<a href="images/plt_120.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_120.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Principal Façade of the Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_261" id="page_261">{261}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_121">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 121</p>
-<a href="images/plt_121.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_121.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gate of the Principal Entrance, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_262" id="page_262">{262}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_122">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 122</p>
-<a href="images/plt_122.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_122.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_263" id="page_263">{263}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_123">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 123</p>
-<a href="images/plt_123.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_123.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_264" id="page_264">{264}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_124">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 124</p>
-<a href="images/plt_124.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_124.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_265" id="page_265">{265}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_125">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 125</p>
-<a href="images/plt_125.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_125.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_266" id="page_266">{266}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_126">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 126</p>
-<a href="images/plt_126.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_126.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_267" id="page_267">{267}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_127">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 127</p>
-<a href="images/plt_127.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_127.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_268" id="page_268">{268}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_128">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 128</p>
-<a href="images/plt_128.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_128.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hall of Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_269" id="page_269">{269}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_129">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 129</p>
-<a href="images/plt_129.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_129.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Upper Part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_270" id="page_270">{270}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_130">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 130</p>
-<a href="images/plt_130.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_130.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls from the Room of the Prince, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_271" id="page_271">{271}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_131">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 131</p>
-<a href="images/plt_131.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_131.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_272" id="page_272">{272}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_132">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 132</p>
-<a href="images/plt_132.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_132.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Angle in the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_273" id="page_273">{273}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_133">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 133</p>
-<a href="images/plt_133.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_133.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_274" id="page_274">{274}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_134">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 134</p>
-<a href="images/plt_134.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_134.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_275" id="page_275">{275}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_135">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 135</p>
-<a href="images/plt_135.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_135.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_276" id="page_276">{276}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_136">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 136</p>
-<a href="images/plt_136.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_136.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_277" id="page_277">{277}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_137">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 137</p>
-<a href="images/plt_137.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_137.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_278" id="page_278">{278}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_138">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 138</p>
-<a href="images/plt_138.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_138.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_279" id="page_279">{279}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_139">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 139</p>
-<a href="images/plt_139.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_139.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gallery on the Second Storey of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_280" id="page_280">{280}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_140">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 140</p>
-<a href="images/plt_140.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_140.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Upper Part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_281" id="page_281">{281}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_141">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 141</p>
-<a href="images/plt_141.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_141.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Upper Part of the Court of the Dolls, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_282" id="page_282">{282}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_142">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 142</p>
-<a href="images/plt_142.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_142.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Entrance to the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_283" id="page_283">{283}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_143">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 143</p>
-<a href="images/plt_143.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_143.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Dormitory of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_284" id="page_284">{284}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_144">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 144</p>
-<a href="images/plt_144.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_144.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Front of the Sleeping Saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_285" id="page_285">{285}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_145">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 145</p>
-<a href="images/plt_145.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_145.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-<p>Sleeping Saloon of the Moorish Kings, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_286" id="page_286">{286}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_146-a">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 146</p>
-<a href="images/plt_146-a.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_146-a.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Intercolumniation, where Don Fadrique was Assassinated, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_146-b">
-<a href="images/plt_146-b.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_146-b.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-<p>Sultana’s Quarters, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_287" id="page_287">{287}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_147">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 147</p>
-<a href="images/plt_147.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_147.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Room in which King St Ferdinand Died, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_288" id="page_288">{288}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_148">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 148</p>
-<a href="images/plt_148.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_148.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Interior of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_289" id="page_289">{289}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_149">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 149</p>
-<a href="images/plt_149.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_149.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Front of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_290" id="page_290">{290}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_150">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 150</p>
-<a href="images/plt_150.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_150.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gate of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_291" id="page_291">{291}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_151">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 151</p>
-<a href="images/plt_151.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_151.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gallery of the Hall of St Ferdinand, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_292" id="page_292">{292}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_152">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 152</p>
-<a href="images/plt_152.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_152.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Throne of Justice, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_293" id="page_293">{293}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_153">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 153</p>
-<a href="images/plt_153.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_153.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Hundred Virgins, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_294" id="page_294">{294}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_154">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 154</p>
-<a href="images/plt_154.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_154.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Virgins, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_295" id="page_295">{295}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_155">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 155</p>
-<a href="images/plt_155.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_155.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>General View of the Court of the Hundred Virgins, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_296" id="page_296">{296}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_156">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 156</p>
-<a href="images/plt_156.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_156.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the Virgins, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_297" id="page_297">{297}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_157">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 157</p>
-<a href="images/plt_157.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_157.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Front of the Dormitory of the Moorish Kings and the Court of the
-Virgins, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_298" id="page_298">{298}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_158">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 158</p>
-<a href="images/plt_158.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_158.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gallery in the Court of the Virgins, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_299" id="page_299">{299}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_159">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 159</p>
-<a href="images/plt_159.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_159.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Court of the Virgins. Capital of the Door of the Hall of
-Ambassadors, Alcazar.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_300" id="page_300">{300}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_160">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 160</p>
-<a href="images/plt_160.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_160.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Alcazar.</p>
-
-<p>Court of the Virgins. Capital of the Gate of the Hall of Charles V.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_301" id="page_301">{301}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_161">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 161</p>
-<a href="images/plt_161.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_161.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Palace of the Dueñas. Door of the Chapel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_302" id="page_302">{302}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_162">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 162</p>
-<a href="images/plt_162.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_162.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Palace of the Dukes of Alcala, Commonly called Casa de Pilatos.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_303" id="page_303">{303}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_163">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 163</p>
-<a href="images/plt_163.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_163.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Court in the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_304" id="page_304">{304}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_164">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 164</p>
-<a href="images/plt_164.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_164.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Court of the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_305" id="page_305">{305}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_165">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 165</p>
-<a href="images/plt_165.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_165.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_306" id="page_306">{306}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_166">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 166</p>
-<a href="images/plt_166.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_166.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_307" id="page_307">{307}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_167">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 167</p>
-<a href="images/plt_167.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_167.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Gallery in the Court of the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_308" id="page_308">{308}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_168">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 168</p>
-<a href="images/plt_168.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_168.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Angle and Statue in the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_309" id="page_309">{309}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_169">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 169</p>
-<a href="images/plt_169.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_169.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Entrance to the Ante-room of the Chapel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_310" id="page_310">{310}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_170">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 170</p>
-<a href="images/plt_170.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_170.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Staircase in the House of Pilate, by Barrera.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_311" id="page_311">{311}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_171">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 171</p>
-<a href="images/plt_171.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_171.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Entrance Door of the Oratory.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_312" id="page_312">{312}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_172">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 172</p>
-<a href="images/plt_172.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_172.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Way out to the Flat Roofs in the High Gallery.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_313" id="page_313">{313}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_173">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 173</p>
-<a href="images/plt_173.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_173.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Staircase in the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_314" id="page_314">{314}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_174">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 174</p>
-<a href="images/plt_174.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_174.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate. Doors of the Offices in the High Gallery.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_315" id="page_315">{315}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_175">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 175</p>
-<a href="images/plt_175.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_175.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Window of the Prætor’s Hall leading to the Garden.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_316" id="page_316">{316}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_176">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 176</p>
-<a href="images/plt_176.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_176.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Barred Window in the Prætor’s Garden.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_317" id="page_317">{317}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_177">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 177</p>
-<a href="images/plt_177.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_177.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate. Bolt on the Prætor’s Gate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_318" id="page_318">{318}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_178">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 178</p>
-<a href="images/plt_178.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_178.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Window in the Ante-room of the Chapel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_319" id="page_319">{319}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_179">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 179</p>
-<a href="images/plt_179.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_179.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Section of the Ceiling in the Prætor’s Hall.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_320" id="page_320">{320}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_180">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 180</p>
-<a href="images/plt_180.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_180.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Palace of the Dueñas in Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_321" id="page_321">{321}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_181">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 181</p>
-<a href="images/plt_181.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_181.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Mosaics in the Hall of the Fountain.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_322" id="page_322">{322}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_182">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 182</p>
-<a href="images/plt_182.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_182.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Palace of the Dueñas in Seville.</p>
-
-<p>Glazed Tiles in the Socles of the Chapel and Arches.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_323" id="page_323">{323}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_183">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 183</p>
-<a href="images/plt_183.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_183.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Mosaic of the Peristyle in the Palace.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_324" id="page_324">{324}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_184">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 184</p>
-<a href="images/plt_184.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_184.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Mosaic in the Hall of the Fountain.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_325" id="page_325">{325}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_185">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 185</p>
-<a href="images/plt_185.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_185.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_326" id="page_326">{326}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_186">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 186</p>
-<a href="images/plt_186.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_186.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_327" id="page_327">{327}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_187">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 187</p>
-<a href="images/plt_187.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_187.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Mosaic in the Court of the House of Pilate.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_328" id="page_328">{328}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_188">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 188</p>
-<a href="images/plt_188.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_188.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate.</p>
-
-<p>Mosaic in the Chapel.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_329" id="page_329">{329}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_189">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 189</p>
-<a href="images/plt_189.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_189.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>BORN IN SEVILLE, 1617.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_330" id="page_330">{330}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_190">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 190</p>
-<a href="images/plt_190.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_190.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Altar-screen of the La Gamba, by Luis de Vargas.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_331" id="page_331">{331}</a></span></p><p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_191">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 191</p>
-<a href="images/plt_191.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_191.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Descent from the Cross, by Pedro Campaña.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_332" id="page_332">{332}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_192">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 192</p>
-<a href="images/plt_192.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_192.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Anthony of Padua visited by the Infant Saviour while kneeling at his
-Prayers, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_333" id="page_333">{333}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_193">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 193</p>
-<a href="images/plt_193.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_193.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lord Baptized by St John Baptist, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_334" id="page_334">{334}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_194">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 194</p>
-<a href="images/plt_194.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_194.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Guardian Angel, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_335" id="page_335">{335}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_195">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 195</p>
-<a href="images/plt_195.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_195.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Leander, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_336" id="page_336">{336}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_196">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 196</p>
-<a href="images/plt_196.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_196.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Isidore, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_337" id="page_337">{337}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_197">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 197</p>
-<a href="images/plt_197.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_197.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Ferdinand, Crowned and Robed, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_338" id="page_338">{338}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_198">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 198</p>
-<a href="images/plt_198.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_198.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Madre Francisca Dorotea Villalda, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_339" id="page_339">{339}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_199">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 199</p>
-<a href="images/plt_199.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_199.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Anthony with the Infant Saviour, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_340" id="page_340">{340}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_200">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 200</p>
-<a href="images/plt_200.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_200.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_341" id="page_341">{341}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_201">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 201</p>
-<a href="images/plt_201.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_201.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_342" id="page_342">{342}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_202">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 202</p>
-<a href="images/plt_202.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_202.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_343" id="page_343">{343}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_203">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 203</p>
-<a href="images/plt_203.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_203.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_344" id="page_344">{344}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_204">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 204</p>
-<a href="images/plt_204.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_204.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Justa and St Rufina, Patron Saints of Seville, holding between them
-the Giralda Tower, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_345" id="page_345">{345}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_205">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 205</p>
-<a href="images/plt_205.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_205.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Bonaventure and St Leander, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_346" id="page_346">{346}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_206">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 206</p>
-<a href="images/plt_206.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_206.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Thomas of Villanueva giving Alms at the Door of his Cathedral, by
-Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_347" id="page_347">{347}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_207">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 207</p>
-<a href="images/plt_207.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_207.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Annunciation of our Lady, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_348" id="page_348">{348}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_208">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 208</p>
-<a href="images/plt_208.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_208.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Felix of Cantalisi restoring to Our Lady the Infant Saviour, whom she
-had placed in his Arms, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_349" id="page_349">{349}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_209">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 209</p>
-<a href="images/plt_209.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_209.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_350" id="page_350">{350}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_210">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 210</p>
-<a href="images/plt_210.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_210.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Peter Nolasco kneeling before Our Lady of Mercy, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_351" id="page_351">{351}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_211">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 211</p>
-<a href="images/plt_211.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_211.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Deposition&mdash;St Francis of Assisi supporting the Body of Our Lord
-nailed by the Left Hand to the Cross, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_352" id="page_352">{352}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_212">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 212</p>
-<a href="images/plt_212.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_212.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Joseph and the Infant Saviour, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_353" id="page_353">{353}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_213">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 213</p>
-<a href="images/plt_213.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_213.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St John the Baptist in the Desert leaning against a Rock, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_354" id="page_354">{354}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_214">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 214</p>
-<a href="images/plt_214.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_214.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Augustine and the Flaming Heart, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_355" id="page_355">{355}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_215">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 215</p>
-<a href="images/plt_215.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_215.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Felix of Cantalisi and the Infant Jesus, known as, “San Felix de Las
-Arrugas,” by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_356" id="page_356">{356}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_216">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 216</p>
-<a href="images/plt_216.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_216.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Anthony with the Infant Saviour, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_357" id="page_357">{357}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_217">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 217</p>
-<a href="images/plt_217.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_217.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Deposition from the Cross, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM..</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_358" id="page_358">{358}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_218">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 218</p>
-<a href="images/plt_218.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_218.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady with the Infant Saviour in her Arms, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>(AN EARLY PICTURE.)</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_359" id="page_359">{359}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_219">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 219</p>
-<a href="images/plt_219.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_219.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady and the Infant Saviour, known as “La Virgen de la Servilleta,”
-by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_360" id="page_360">{360}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_220">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 220</p>
-<a href="images/plt_220.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_220.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady seated, with the Infant Saviour in her Lap, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>(AN EARLY PICTURE.)</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_361" id="page_361">{361}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_221">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 221</p>
-<a href="images/plt_221.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_221.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Thomas of Aquin, by, Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_362" id="page_362">{362}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_222">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 222</p>
-<a href="images/plt_222.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_222.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Virgin of the Grotto, by Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_363" id="page_363">{363}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_223">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 223</p>
-<a href="images/plt_223.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_223.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Bruno talking to the Pope, by Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_364" id="page_364">{364}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_224">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 224</p>
-<a href="images/plt_224.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_224.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Day of Judgment, by Martin de Vos.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_365" id="page_365">{365}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_225">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 225</p>
-<a href="images/plt_225.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_225.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, by J. Valdes Leal.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_366" id="page_366">{366}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_226">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 226</p>
-<a href="images/plt_226.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_226.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Jesus crowning St Joseph, by Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_367" id="page_367">{367}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_227">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 227</p>
-<a href="images/plt_227.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_227.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Devout Punyon, by Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_368" id="page_368">{368}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_228">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 228</p>
-<a href="images/plt_228.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_228.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The Virgin surrounded by
-Cherubim. By Fr. Pacheco.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_369" id="page_369">{369}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_229">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 229</p>
-<a href="images/plt_229.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_229.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lord’s Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE HOSPITAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_370" id="page_370">{370}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_230">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 230</p>
-<a href="images/plt_230.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_230.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Moses striking the Rock in Horeb, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>LA CARIDAD, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_371" id="page_371">{371}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_231">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 231</p>
-<a href="images/plt_231.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_231.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St John of God, sinking under the Weight of a Sick Man, assisted by an
-Angel, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>LA CARIDAD, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_372" id="page_372">{372}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_232">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 232</p>
-<a href="images/plt_232.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_232.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Death of St Hermenigild, by J. de las Roelas.</p>
-
-<p>HOSPITAL DE LA SANGRE, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_373" id="page_373">{373}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_233">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 233</p>
-<a href="images/plt_233.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_233.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Apostleship, by Juan de las Roelas.</p>
-
-<p>HOSPITAL DE LA SANGRE, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_374" id="page_374">{374}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_234">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 234</p>
-<a href="images/plt_234.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_234.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The End of this World’s Glories, by Valdes Leal.</p>
-
-<p>LA CARIDAD, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_375" id="page_375">{375}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_235">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 235</p>
-<a href="images/plt_235.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_235.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Pietà, or the Virgin supporting the Dead Body of her Divine Son,
-Altar-screen, by Luis de Vargas.</p>
-
-<p>SANTA MARIA DE LA BLANCA, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_376" id="page_376">{376}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_236">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 236</p>
-<a href="images/plt_236.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_236.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Joseph holding the Infant Saviour in His Arms, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_377" id="page_377">{377}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_237">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 237</p>
-<a href="images/plt_237.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_237.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Our Lady of the Girdle, by Murillo.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_378" id="page_378">{378}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_238">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 238</p>
-<a href="images/plt_238.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_238.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Portrait of Ferdinand VII., by Goya.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_379" id="page_379">{379}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_239">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 239</p>
-<a href="images/plt_239.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_239.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Portrait of Charles IV., by Goya.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_380" id="page_380">{380}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_240">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 240</p>
-<a href="images/plt_240.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_240.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Annunciation, by F. Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_381" id="page_381">{381}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_241">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 241</p>
-<a href="images/plt_241.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_241.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Death of Laocoön and his Sons at the Siege of Troy, by El Greco.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_382" id="page_382">{382}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_242">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 242</p>
-<a href="images/plt_242.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_242.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Caton of Utique tearing open his wounds, by Josef Ribera.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_383" id="page_383">{383}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_243">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 243</p>
-<a href="images/plt_243.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_243.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Pietà. The Virgin holding the Dead Saviour in her Arms, by Morales.</p>
-
-<p>SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_384" id="page_384">{384}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_244">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 244</p>
-<a href="images/plt_244.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_244.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Portrait of El Greco, by Himself.</p>
-
-<p>GALLERY OF SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_385" id="page_385">{385}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_245">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 245</p>
-<a href="images/plt_245.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_245.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Miracle of St Vœu. St Hugo in the Refectory with several Chartreux,
-by Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_386" id="page_386">{386}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_246">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 246</p>
-<a href="images/plt_246.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_246.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Martyrdom of St Andrew, by J. de las Roelas.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_387" id="page_387">{387}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_247">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 247</p>
-<a href="images/plt_247.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_247.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Last Supper, by P. de Cespedes.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_388" id="page_388">{388}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_248">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 248</p>
-<a href="images/plt_248.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_248.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Christ on the Cross, by Zurbarán.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE MUSEUM.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_389" id="page_389">{389}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_249">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 249</p>
-<a href="images/plt_249.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_249.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Portrait of the Figure in Pacheco’s Picture at Seville, supposed to
-represent Cervantes.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_390" id="page_390">{390}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_250">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 250</p>
-<a href="images/plt_250.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_250.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Virgin and the Child Jesus, by Alonso Cano.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_391" id="page_391">{391}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_251">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 251</p>
-<a href="images/plt_251.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_251.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Descent from the Cross, by Alejo Fernandez.</p>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_392" id="page_392">{392}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_252">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 252</p>
-<a href="images/plt_252.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_252.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_393" id="page_393">{393}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_253">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 253</p>
-<a href="images/plt_253.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_253.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Giralda.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_394" id="page_394">{394}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_254">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 254</p>
-<a href="images/plt_254.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_254.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Giralda.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_395" id="page_395">{395}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_255">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 255</p>
-<a href="images/plt_255.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_255.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Cathedral. The Gate of Pardon.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_396" id="page_396">{396}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_256">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 256</p>
-<a href="images/plt_256.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_256.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Cathedral. Puerta de los Palos.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_397" id="page_397">{397}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_257">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 257</p>
-<a href="images/plt_257.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_257.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>SEVILLE CATHEDRAL</p>
-
-<p><i>Specially drawn for The Spanish Series</i></p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_398" id="page_398">{398}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_258">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 258</p>
-<a href="images/plt_258.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_258.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Cathedral. View of an Organ.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_399" id="page_399">{399}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_259">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 259</p>
-<a href="images/plt_259.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_259.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Cathedral. Monument to Columbus.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_400" id="page_400">{400}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_260">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 260</p>
-<a href="images/plt_260.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_260.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Cathedral. Silver Tabernacle (weighing 45 arrobas).</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_401" id="page_401">{401}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_261">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 261</p>
-<a href="images/plt_261.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_261.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Alcazar Gardens.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_402" id="page_402">{402}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_262">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 262</p>
-<a href="images/plt_262.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_262.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Alcazar Gardens.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_403" id="page_403">{403}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_263">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 263</p>
-<a href="images/plt_263.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_263.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Alcazar Gardens.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_404" id="page_404">{404}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_264">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 264</p>
-<a href="images/plt_264.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_264.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate. The Goddess Ceres.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_405" id="page_405">{405}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_265">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 265</p>
-<a href="images/plt_265.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_265.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>House of Pilate. The Goddess Pallas Pacifer.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_406" id="page_406">{406}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_266">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 266</p>
-<a href="images/plt_266.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_266.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Italica.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_407" id="page_407">{407}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_267">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 267</p>
-<a href="images/plt_267.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_267.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Roman Walls.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_408" id="page_408">{408}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_268">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 268</p>
-<a href="images/plt_268.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_268.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Patio de Banderas and the Giralda.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_409" id="page_409">{409}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_269">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 269</p>
-<a href="images/plt_269.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_269.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de San Francisco.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_410" id="page_410">{410}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_270">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 270</p>
-<a href="images/plt_270.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_270.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>St Mark’s Church.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_411" id="page_411">{411}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_271">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 271</p>
-<a href="images/plt_271.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_271.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de San Fernando.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_412" id="page_412">{412}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_272">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 272</p>
-<a href="images/plt_272.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_272.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Town Hall. Details of the Old Part.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_413" id="page_413">{413}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_273">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 273</p>
-<a href="images/plt_273.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_273.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Façade of the Palace of San Telmo.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_414" id="page_414">{414}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_274">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 274</p>
-<a href="images/plt_274.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_274.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Statue of Velaquez.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_415" id="page_415">{415}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_275">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 275</p>
-<a href="images/plt_275.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_275.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de la Constitución.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_416" id="page_416">{416}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_276">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 276</p>
-<a href="images/plt_276.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_276.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de la Constitución.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_417" id="page_417">{417}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_277">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 277</p>
-<a href="images/plt_277.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_277.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Calle de Sierpes.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_418" id="page_418">{418}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_278">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 278</p>
-<a href="images/plt_278.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_278.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Calle de Sierpes.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_419" id="page_419">{419}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_279">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 279</p>
-<a href="images/plt_279.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_279.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>A Street in Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_420" id="page_420">{420}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_280">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 280</p>
-<a href="images/plt_280.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_280.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Hercules Avenue.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_421" id="page_421">{421}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_281">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 281</p>
-<a href="images/plt_281.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_281.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Pasadera.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_422" id="page_422">{422}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_282">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 282</p>
-<a href="images/plt_282.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_282.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Courtyard of La Caridad.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_423" id="page_423">{423}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_283">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 283</p>
-<a href="images/plt_283.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_283.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de San Fernando.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_424" id="page_424">{424}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_284">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 284</p>
-<a href="images/plt_284.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_284.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de Gavidia.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_425" id="page_425">{425}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_285">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 285</p>
-<a href="images/plt_285.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_285.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View from the Pasadera.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_426" id="page_426">{426}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_286">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 286</p>
-<a href="images/plt_286.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_286.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Drive.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_427" id="page_427">{427}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_287">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 287</p>
-<a href="images/plt_287.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_287.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Paseo de las Delicias.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_428" id="page_428">{428}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_288">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 288</p>
-<a href="images/plt_288.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_288.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Quay.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_429" id="page_429">{429}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_289">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 289</p>
-<a href="images/plt_289.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_289.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Partial View of Seville.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_430" id="page_430">{430}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_290">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 290</p>
-<a href="images/plt_290.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_290.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Plaza de Toros.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_431" id="page_431">{431}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_291">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 291</p>
-<a href="images/plt_291.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_291.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Fields of San Sebastian.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_432" id="page_432">{432}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_292">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 292</p>
-<a href="images/plt_292.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_292.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Park of Maria Luisa.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_433" id="page_433">{433}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_293">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 293</p>
-<a href="images/plt_293.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_293.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Railway Station of M.Z.A. Principal Façade.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_434" id="page_434">{434}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_294">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 294</p>
-<a href="images/plt_294.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_294.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Railway Station of M.Z.A. General View.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_435" id="page_435">{435}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_295">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 295</p>
-<a href="images/plt_295.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_295.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>Triana Bridge.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_436" id="page_436">{436}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_296">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 296</p>
-<a href="images/plt_296.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_296.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View from Triana Bridge.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_437" id="page_437">{437}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_297">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 297</p>
-<a href="images/plt_297.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_297.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>View from Triana.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_438" id="page_438">{438}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_298">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 298</p>
-<a href="images/plt_298.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_298.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>San Telmo from Triana.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_439" id="page_439">{439}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_299">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 299</p>
-<a href="images/plt_299.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_299.jpg"
-width="70%"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>The Cathedral. Our Lord Crucified. Sculpture in the Sacristy.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_440" id="page_440">{440}</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" id="plt_300">
-<p class="plt">PLATE 300</p>
-<a href="images/plt_300.jpg">
-<img src="images/plt_300.jpg"
-width="600"
-alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-
-<p>SEVILLE</p>
-
-<p><i>Specially drawn for The Spanish Series</i></p>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="footnotes"><p class="cb">FOOTNOTES:</p>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> There is one picture only by Roelas in the Prado. His work
-is hardly known outside Seville. In England we have at least one of his
-pictures, a fine example, in a private collection.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> There is a picture by El Greco, the wonderful portrait of
-himself, in the Museum. It came quite recently from the Palace of San
-Telmo, where also was once the really grand picture, “The Death of
-Laocoön and his Sons at the Siege of Troy.” The remarkable and
-interesting “Trinity” in the Cathedral, attributed to El Greco, is the
-work of his pupil Luis Tristan, a painter neglected too long. Seville
-has no picture by Navarrete; the one work of Morales, the triptych in
-the Sacristiá de los Calices of the Cathedral, is not typical of his
-strange power.</p></div>
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-<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> The most important is the “Adoration of the Shepherds,”
-until recently in the Palace of San Telmo; but this work has been
-removed with other pictures in the collection of the Infanta Maria Luisa
-Fernanda de Bourbon. The really fine picture on the same subject in our
-National Gallery is now attributed to Zurbarán; probably to him, too,
-belongs the “Dead Warrior,” now assigned to Velazquez.</p></div>
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