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Palace Courtyard chains Úbeda

Palace Úbeda chains. Andres Vandelvira.


Vandelvira Andres is English architect who best represents the pure classicism of the Renaissance. His most important works are in the city of Úbeda (Jaén), capital of one of the most imnportante olive regions of Andalusia and residence of a powerful aristocracy, closely linked to the state government. Roman classicism of his work is evident, especially in the palace then discussed.



PALACE ÚBEDA CHAINS
This palace, popularly known as Chain, whose promoter was Juan Vázquez de Molina, nephew Francisco de los Cobos
and, like him, the secretary of state and secretary of Charles V to Philip II, and was not even to live is in the same sixteenth century renovated and adapted to the monastery of Dominican mothers. Environmental splendor of its original parts still remains as the murals in the Chapter House which was the convent in 1595 and the third body with a magnificent coffered ceiling in trough Mudejar following uses and tastes. Undoubtedly
classic Italian similarities, this palace is Without question, the part of civil architecture of the sixteenth century palace more representative of its kind in the entire city: a real urban palace of the English Renaissance.

plant :
with a scheme similar to the palaces and great houses of the sixteenth century in Spain, answered plant typologically square with arcaded courtyard , surrounded by an elegant colonnade, with arches and two storeys in height. Following the model of 'Roman house' and in general Mediterranean courtyard internal management structure of the units . Each plant or body architectural order carries a different: the lower Corinthian, Ionic in the middle and top plan, a combination of caryatids and telamons .
The building has two facades, one of the City Council, with hints of the 40 classical twentieth century, with access from what was formerly the palace garden, Memorial Square today, and the other cover Main access to the palace by the Renaissance Plaza de Vázquez de Molina.


The main facade :
In a large extent, answers formally structured approach organically three bodies, with a three-story horizontal management and vertically seven blocks of different width. From the ends of the front sections are successively decreasing in width to reach the central section, which again is wide, achieving an optical illusion of symmetry and solidity of the building.
The facade is remarkable-the-noble plant - consisting of seven furnished balconies topped by pediments, the highest body of the seven portholes and eight warriors and madonnas family heraldry carriers of each of the streets and covered headlights of the upper corners of the building, as an ornamental element-classical-tholoi help give the building more slender. An anecdotal value and attractive on the facade of the palace are called cheers, graffiti at the time, which referred to events conmemotativos, characters or criticism, offer an overview of use and time.


Mural in the palace.
Overall, the clear front of Italian heritage and classic design is an accurate reflection of a Roman house design unveiled in 1511 by Fra Giocondo of Verona. It is striking and original while investment architectural orders that Vandelvira designs in a show of freedom, placing the Corinthian pilaster on the first floor, Ionic on the second and third body anthropomorphic figures.


The patio:
shaft from which organizes housing, like the rest of the palace courtyards of the city, presents some common features that are missing in the central source repetitive and self-affirming or family heraldry in the spandrels of the arches. This court in particular against the general trend of central patio, here is displaced considerably
and other plant part presents a singular note Italianism not found in any other building in the region. And so columned gallery floor in low-key Quattrocento - is covered with vaults, and walls develop a continuous series of arches.
Likewise, a highly original game of two-color to enhance the Renaissance courtyard effect is achieved through the central source stone and marble, with columns of white marble from Genoa on which the arches, and through the combination of blind arches and vaults bleached, which gives the building a marked resemblance to Florence Renaissance.
Today, this palace houses the Town Hall, the Historical Archives of the city and the Potteries Museum.





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