RECEPTION AND DEMAND FOR RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURAL MODELS IN CÓRDOBA, SPAIN, DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY

Abstract

Throught the 16th Century, the city of Córdoba, in Spain, was the most populous and richest city in the region of Andalucía, with the exception of Sevilla. The reasons for Cordoba´s enrichment were due to its privileged geographical location, between a rich countryside, which experienced a moment of great development, and a saw specialized in the cattle of the wool and industry of weaves. This happy circumstance favored, from 1520, the recepction and assimilation of the aesthetic ideas of the Renaissance, without forming a specific language created from the experience of spanish art, but suddenly imported from the humanist culture that appeared in Italy in the previous century. In this work we will study its main architectural manifestations and its demand among the main cordovan societies and patrons of the 16^th Century.