Diego de Siloé ( Spanish: Diego de Siloé ; c. 1495 , Burgos - October 22, 1563 , Granada ) - Spanish architect and sculptor of the era of the Gothic transition to the Renaissance . The predecessor of the Granada sculpture school .
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Biography
Diego de Ciloe is the son of the French sculptor Gilles de Ciloe, who died in 1500. He is considered one of the main representatives of Plateresco . Silo in his youth visited Italy and created the Epiphany altar there in the Neapolitan monastery of San Giovanni a Carbonnara. In 1523, he completed the erection of a golden staircase in the cathedral of Burgos .
The dome and Corinthian columns in the Cathedral of Granada , created by Diego de Siloe, who succeeded Enrique de Egas , indicate that he was familiar with the architecture of the Italian Renaissance . Diego de Siloe built churches in Ubeda , Malaga and Guadis . Siloe has had a major impact on Granada architecture and sculpture in Northern Spain.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118797212 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Universalis - Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. .
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
Literature
- G. Weise: Die spanische Plastik der Renaissance und des Frühbrarocks, 1956