UN DIBUJO DEL MONUMENTO DE LA CATEDRAL DE SEVILLA POR LUCAS VALDÉS

Abstract

Previously known drawings of the "Monumento" of Seville Cathedral are one from the end of the 16th century and a 1737 engraving by Bouttats from a drawing by Domingo Martínez. This paper presents a drawing signed by Lucas Valdés in 1695, after the alterations carried out on the temporary structure between 1688 and 1689, and which may have served as a basis for Martínez's sketch. lt was drawn as a model for an engraving which the canon Don Luis Federigui intended to have made in Rome. This desire of his is expressed in a letter sent from the Eternal City to his fellow Sevillian canon, Don Juan de Loaysa.