UN RETRATO FAMILIAR DE LOS ACOSTA EN SU SEGUNDA FASE SEVILLANA

Abstract

The aim of this docummentary study, based on a commentary of Céan Bermúdez, is to reconstruct the domestic world of Cayetano de Acosta, the Portuguese sculptor and altarbuilder established in Sevilla. The interest of this information lays in the fact that his sons formed the domestic workshop where some of the most important works of our late Sevillian barroque period were created. Some of the facts and working hypothesis, first displayed in this study are the following: the family changes of address in and out of the city; the purchases of houses and courtyards; a study of the family tree; a correct identification of his two homonymous sons called "Francisco"; a distinction between their alleged styles, Rococo, one of them...