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Año XXII, Número 39, enero 2022
Depósito Legal M-34.164-2001

ISSN 1695-6214
Historia Digital colabora con la Fundación ARTHIS

Abstract

Alonso de Covarrubias is one of the most outstanding architects of

Spain of the XVI century. His artistic production suffers continuous and
substantial transformations throughout his professional career. Where we can

find, more than in any other element, a better knowledge of the different

stylistic transitions of his work and his architectural progress, it is in the
courtyards and the cloisters, which constitute a perfect reflection of it. In a first

stage his reference is Lorenzo Vázquez, especially when it comes to
decoration. The access he had to the fourth book of Serlio's treatise in 1540

produced a change in him, now he tries to perform an exercise of ordered and
proportional composition, of formal abstraction and decorative simplification.

As of 1542, he left definitively the Alcarreña reference and obtained what is

explained in books III and IV of Serlio's treaty, with which proportionality is
interpreted and handled in all its perfection as well as the whole and the

modules and their different components As well as the adoption of a sobriety
and content in the decoration, which now acquires a symbolic character.

Palabras Clave

Alonso de Covarrubias, etapas, transición, patios, claustros, alcarreña,

decoración, Lorenzo Vázquez, Serlio.

Keywords

Alonso de Covarrubias, stages, transition, courtyards, cloisters,
alcarreña, decoration, Lorenzo Vázquez, Serlio

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