Foreignness and Architecture in late fifteenth-century Castile IN-PERSON

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Costanza Beltrami explores the dynamics of artistic migration and the meanings of architecture in fifteenth-century Castile.

Birkbeck,  School of Historical Studies

In this research seminar, Costanza Beltrami asks what it meant to be a foreigner in fifteenth-century Castile. How was local architecture shaped by broader phenomena of migration, and how was international exchange transformed by local contexts? The history of fifteenth-century Spanish architecture has often been told as a history of travelling artists. Following a first ‘wave’ of French ‘pioneers,’ around mid-century, Northern European artists settled in the kingdom of Castile, obtaining leading positions in important cathedral lodges where they trained ‘second-generation’ migrants like Juan Guas (active 1453–1496), the leading architect of his time. In his will, Guas evokes his distant French origins, but also his position as Royal Master Mason. The foreign craftsmen who settled in Castile in the late-fifteenth century have been credited with establishing a new status for architects at the Gothic-to-Renaissance transition. Unusually, their names are recorded next to those of patrons on some contemporary buildings. Exploring the dynamics of artistic migration, this lecture will interrogate the meanings of architecture in fifteenth-century Castile.

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