El Toledo historicista, el platero Majadas y el busto de Carlos V del Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2006.v79.i316.24Keywords:
Toledo, Historicism, Carlos V, Spanish Renaissance, Leone Leoni, Majadas, silverwork, Museo de Santa Cruz, New York World’s FairAbstract
Within the historicist elaborations characteristic of late 19th and early 20th– century Toledo, Carlos V and his imperial epoch were of great significance. It is here that the bust–length portrait in silver of the Emperor, attributed to Leone Leoni (today in the Museo de la Santa Cruz, Toledo), makes its appearance. This attribution was formed at the same time that its true creator, the Toledan silversmith Majadas, was being forgotten, in an operation that was not entirely innocent and whose culminating moment came with the publicity surrounding its exhibition at the New York World’s Fair of 1964–65. The technique utilized by this artisan, his knowledge and use of 16th and 17th–century iconography, and the way he employs a rich play of symbolic content in order to praise the Emperor, all confer special interest on this piece.
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