Spanish Renaissance

[1] This new focus in art, literature, quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity, received a major impulse from several events in 1492: The beginning of the Renaissance in Spain is closely linked to the historical-political life of the monarchy of the Catholic Monarchs.

Its figures are the first to leave the medieval approaches that secured a feudal scheme of weak monarch over a powerful and restless nobility.

The Catholic Monarchs unite the forces of the incipient state and ally with the principal families of the nobility to maintain their power.

Little by little, the novel esthetic was introduced into the rest of the court and the clergy, mixing with purely Iberian styles, like the Nasrid art of the dying kingdom of Granada, the exalted and personal Gothic Castilian queen, and the Flemish tendencies in the official painting of the court and the Church.

To accentuate the Italian style, in addition, it is common to add elements directly copied from it, like the adornments a candelieri (borders of vegetables and cupids that surround the frames), or Roman ruins in the countrysides, including in scenes of the life of Christ.