FRANS ANDRÍES, CERAMISTA DE AMBERES EN SEVILLA

Abstract

This paper tends to develop, more widely than usual in the Spanish bibliography, the artistic personality of Frans Andries (called Francisco Andrea in Sevillian documents), a Flemish potmaker who moved to Seville in the middle of the sixteenth century. New information about his life and work in Antwerp, almost unknown in Spain, is given here and some ideas on his date of arrival in Spain are suggested. A new interpretation of the possible relationship between Niculoso Francisco and another famous family of Italian ceramists settled in Antwerp at the beginning of the century: the "Frans", could be another interesting new hypothesys to discuss.