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Pedro Machuca (c. 1490 in Toledo, Spain – 1550 in Granada) is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V (begun 1528) adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada. The significance of this work is that it represents likely the first major classic Renaissance style building in Spain.
His best-known and valued paintings are two at the Museo del Prado. In his previously mentioned Virgin and the Souls of Purgatory, the Virgin's figure is presented with a monumentality and contraposto clearly drawn from Michelangelo, but with a blurring and gracefulness closer to masters such as Raphael and Leonardo.
Pedro Machuca (Toledo, ca. 1490-Granada, 1550) fue un pintor y arquitecto renacentista español. Junto con Alonso Berruguete , Diego de Siloé y Bartolomé Ordóñez , Machuca es uno de los cuatro artistas a los que el pintor Francisco de Holanda llamó las águilas del Renacimiento en España, responsables de la introducción del estilo ...
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In Western architecture: Classical. Designed by the Spaniard Pedro Machuca, who had studied in Italy, the Palace of Charles V was never completed, although work on it continued throughout most of the 16th century.
1490 - Aug 4, 1550. Pedro Machuca is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada. The significance of...
Pedro Machuca. Spain. b Toledo, c. 1490; d Granada, 4 Aug 1550). Spanish painter and architect. The form of his signature (Petrus Machuca, Hispanus. Toletanus) on his earliest known work, the Virgin of Succour (1517; Madrid, Prado), suggests he was active at an early age in Italy. On the basis of the style of that work, a number of frescoes in ...
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