Palace of Saint Telmo and the Spinners by Velázquez.

1. Amalia Feldiorean
4º ESO
IES: ISABEL PERILLÁN Y
QUIRÓS

2. ARCHITECTURE:
SAN TELMO PALACE
PAINTING:
THE SPINNERS

3. SAN TELMO PALACE IN SEVILLE
Source: http://www.traveldepartment.ie/itinerary-details//highlights-of-andalucia-3-
star/554?departureDate=01/03/2014

4. San telmo palace in Seville is a work of the architect Leonardo de Figueroa.
 On 10 March 1682 construction
began on the building in the exterior
walls of Seville, near the
Guadalquivir river. On property
belonging to the Tribunal of the
Holy Office. At first Antonio
Rodríquez was encharged of the
construction but Leonardo Fiqueroa
and his family finished it. It last
more than 70 years, finished in 1730.
Source:
http://edificiosdesevilla.blogspot.com.e
s/2012/01/palacio-de-san-telmo.html

5.  The palace is one of the emblematic buildings of Sevillian Baroque
arquitecture
 At first this palace was dedicated to the University of Navigators
(It was called San Telmo because he was the patron of the
navigators), later it became the Colegio de Marina and then Colegio
de Naútica, a role in which it continued until 1847.
Then, it was the headquarters of the Railway Society and site of
the Literary University , but it was underutilized.
After that it was used as the residence of kings, duckes,
archbishops…
It was also a seminary until 1989, when the arch-episcopate of
Seville ceded the building to the Andalusian Autonomous Government
to be the new seat of the presidency. Nowadays it remained like that.

6. The palace’s main feature is the
exuberant churrigueresque portal on
the main façade , it was built by three
generations of Figueroa family.
This massive building, painted in
distinctive red and dark yellow, covers
an entire city block.
There is movement on the portal but
there are also straight lines in the rest
of the building.
His evolution has been
marked in epochs of reforms
and constant rehabilitations as
consequence of his changes of
property
Source: http://www.juddlamphere.com/#/spaces/Spaces-06-Photographer

7. In the portal we can distinguish three
parts:
- The lower part is made up of Toscan
columns with ornamental shaft (decorated
with geometrical and figurative elements)
- The middle part it’s made up of a
balcony decorated with nautic sculptures
and columns. Surrounding the columns
you can see 12 female a figures
representing the arts and sciences.
- On the third part there are the
sculptures of the patrons of the city
(Saint Ferdinand and saint
Hermenegildo) and San Telmo.. This
part was destroyed by a lightning and
rebuilt with a neoclassical style.
http://jobspapa.com/beautiful-pics-kaba-misc-photography.html
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/104145810105727338/

8. •Fray Bartolomé de las.casas
•Fernando Afán de Rivera
•Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
•Benito Arias Montano
•Luis Daoíz,
•Fernando de Herrera
•Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga
•Lope de Rueda
•Miguel Mañara.
•Diego de Silva Velázquez
•Rodrigo Ponce de León,
•Marqués de Cádiz
•Juan Martínez Montañés
In the upper part, on the roof
there are 12 sculptures of
distinguished Sevilians
Source: http://travelingsky.com/palace-of-
san-telmo/

9. San Telmo floor plan
Source: http://dinastias.forogratis.es/palacio-de-san-telmo-sevilla-t2904-84.html

10. The plant is rectangular, with two more plants and the attic.
There are towers on the corners, gardens and several interior courts, the
principal one has a squared cloister in the center.
Source: http://seordelbiombo.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/el-gran-palacio-
barroco-de-san-telmo.html

11. The palace has many rooms as the mirrors gallery ,a chapel
and it has also gardens
It is decorated with emblems, religious and naval themes
http://onsevilla.com/2010/05/visitas-al-palacio-de-san-
telmo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Telmo_001.jpg
http://www.traveldepartment.ie/itinerary-details//highlights-of-andalucia-3-star/554?departureDate=01/03/2014

12. The Baroque art style is found in this building. The main characteristics
are :
-Twisted columns, sometimes simply decorative instead of supportive
-More curves instead of straight lines
-Highly decorative details and ornaments
-Appearance of movement
-Towers or domes
-An abundance of windows
-Broad naves
-Ceiling frescos
-Optical illusions

13. The main style of this building is the Baroque but as there were many
reforms there are elements with a Neoclassical style and also Rococó
The facade has a lot of Baroque elements as Toscan
columns, curved lines, concave lines.
There is movement.
It is overelaborated there are many sculptures and
decorative items.
We can find decorative exhuberance in the exterior
and the interior of the building.
The structure is rectangular with 4 towers, so common
in this period in the peninsula, it has a stone facade
and overelaborated and the building is made of bricks.
The color is also a classical link with the architecture
in this city. In the Chapel there are frescoes also in
ceilings.

14. Additional information:
The building has much influence from other buildings :
-In the structure and also the interior by the Escorial and
the retiro’s palace
The escorial:
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_E
scorial
Buen retiro palace
Source:
http://www.boadilla.com/pages/buen_reti
ro.htm

15. -On the facade it was influenced by The Hospice and the
count ducke’s cuartel
Count ducke’s quartel
Source:
www.elmundo.es
The Hospice
Source:
enriquemonte.blogspot.com

16. -It has a mirror hall as the Versailles’ palace in France
Versailles palace, hall of mirrors
Source :
http://www.placesinparis.com/palace-of-versailles/
San Telmo palace, hall of mirrors
Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonrlucas/
349690945/?rb=1

18. THE SPINNERS

19. The Spinners is a painting made by Diego Rodrigo de Silva and Velázquez
from 1655 to 1660 also known as the tale of Aracne.
Now it’s on the Prado
museum .
The sizes are:2,20 x 2,89m .
It is made with oleo painting
over a canvas.
The theme is Mithological, it
tells the tale of Aracne
Velázquez
Source:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/au
th/velazquez/

20. It was one of the last paintings of the author, Don
Pedro de Arce commissioned this painting, the
painting tells us a mithological tale, the leyend of
Aracne:
Aracne was a weaver who defy Atenea in being
better than her in weaving, Aracne made a
tapestry representing the infidelity of his
father ,Zeus ,becoming a bull and
kindnapping the god Europa.
As Atenea noticed the taunt and Aracne lost,
she decided to take revenge and she turn
Aracne into a spider and she sentenced her to
weaw all her life
This tale explains the spider's ability to weave
its web.
The mith of Aracne
Source:
hegoddesshouse.blogspot.com.es/2
013/02/spiders-and-arachne.html

21. In the spinners we can
see that the most
important action the
drama, the fable is in
the background and that
in the foreground it’s a
normal day in a
spinning workshop.

22. The spirit of Titian fills the Spinners with reds, russets and golden browns,
and gives to its plain peasant-women a classical grace of gesture
The bit of tapestry in the lighted alcove sets the theme for the whole
composition. Its diagonal curves are developed. There is richness of color,
there are silvery gray-blues, dull rose and olive, are gently diffused over the
standing ladies (almost indistinguishable from the tapestry) to the spacious
plainness of the work-room. The colors go from the gray-green wall with its
skeins of yarn and its ladder through the shadowy, flat, red-skirted woman
in the center, to the girl winding yarn at the right.
This girl, with strongly lighted and rounded waist, with skirt of green
intenser than the walls, her body swaying in the natural dance-rhythm of her
work, is the most important part of the composition.

23. Part Of The Painting
He received dutch influences :
a homelike, realistic group,
drawn in short, irregular
curves without classical grace,
against a plain interior full of
rectangular planes at different
angles; cool, clear daylight
from a side-window to bring
out richly colored textiles
against plain, dull, gray-green
walls.
 As to composition: the Dutch genre
painters rarely attempted designs so
spacious and complex
Source
http://fxreflects.blogspot.com.es/2009/08/velasquez-encore-
las-hilandera-spinners.html

24. In its composition, the artist looks
back to his still life, where two
different areas and two planes of
reality balance each other. The
everyday scene in the foreground
shows a plainly furnished room
where women are at work spinning.
Sunlight falling in from above
conjures up a complex range of
colours. On the left, an elderly
woman is at the spinning wheel,
while the young woman seated to the
right is winding yarn.
There is a second room in the background, It is
flooded with light and contains several elegantly
dressed women. The woman on the left wearing
an antique helmet and with her arm raised is a
figure of Athena. Opposite her stands the
young Arachne, who has committed the
sacrilegious act of comparing her skill in
weaving with the goddess's. She has begun their
competition with a tapestry showing one of the
love affairs of Jupiter, the rape of Europa.
Velázquez borrowed the theme of this tapestry
from a famous picture by Titian, also extant in
a copy by Rubens, to show his artistic
veneration for the Venetian master.

25. This interpretation is still
relevant if Velázquez has in fact
represented the figures of
Athenea and Arachne a second
time in the figures of the old
woman and the young woman in
the foreground. Here, at least,
Velázquez has transferred
mythology to everyday reality.
However, there is a whole series
of possible meanings beneath the
surface of this painting, and
scholars are still puzzling over
some of them to this day.

26. BAROQUE PAINTING
CHARACTERISTICS
•They prefered a balance naturalism,.
• Predominance of the religious themes, with
an ascetic or mystical expression, and treated
with simplicity and credibility.
• Absence of sensuality.
• Influence of the realism and tenebrism
•Foreshortened figures appeared
•Oil paintings were used
•Chiaroscuro, the use games between light and
shadow
• Predominance of color over painting
• The painters made complex compositions in
order to shock the audience
• The important aspects aren’t on the center
The spinners’ Baroque characteristics
This painting belongs to the baroque art style and in
the painting appears some Baroque elements:
 The picture is realistic
 There are foreshortened figures and chiaroscuros.
 The colors are dark and also warm.
 It’s an oil painting
 This is a complex composition
 A characteristic of this autor is that the
important thing is in the background as in a
frame or mirror

27. CURIOSITIES
 The painting was restored after a fire in the Alcazar
of Madrid where it was stored and his dimensions
changed a bit.

28. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://enciclopedia.us.es
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 http://www.spanisharts.info/velazquez.php
 http://www.wordrefference.com
 Book of 3rd year of ESO