Rejería renacentista en Álava. Talleres foráneos en la Llanada

MARTÍN IBARRARAN, Miren Edurne

Publication year:

2005

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-4403

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Summary

This study of 16th-century iron fencing in Alava provides us with knowledge on its structure, typology and decoration, as well as on the workshops that produced it. As from sketches and models provided by architects and sculptors, the fencers, applying traditional iron-forge methods, obtained forms that were being used in other arts. The technical conditions of working with metal determined, in different periods, the intervention of other metalworkers like silversmiths and the simplification of certain decorative details.