El comercio artístico entre Sevilla y Canarias a través del tratante García de Azcárate y el escultor Hita del Castillo

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Artistic trade, Seville, seville sculpture, Benito de Hita y Castillo, brocades

Abstract

Analysis of the role of city of Seville as artistic centre and exported in the third quarter of the 18th century, through the figure of a business agent, Bernardo García de Azcárate, and his function as intermediary, manager and negotiator of art work (sculptures, bells, silversmithÅLs craft, pottery plates, brocades, embroidery) destinated to the Canary Island. The epistolary correspondence (1756- 1772) with the canary sir Felipe Massieu de Vandale, outstanding exponent of the mercantile aristocracy of the island allows to urderstand the different ways ans forms of the receiving system, the vicissitudes of the sending system, motivation and circumstances of the assignments, relationships or the artistic sponsorship of his customers, as well as the functioning and the activity of the studio of the sculptor Benito de Hita y Castillo, prominent figure of the andalusian baroque statuary with whom he kept a permanent relationship. In his production, we can find new works of the sculptor with the documentary confirmation of others sculptures.

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2015-03-01

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Pérez Morera, J. (2015) “El comercio artístico entre Sevilla y Canarias a través del tratante García de Azcárate y el escultor Hita del Castillo”, Atrio. Revista de Historia del Arte. Sevilla, España, (21), pp. 88–107. Available at: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/atrio/article/view/2578 (Accessed: 9 May 2025).

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