LA APORTACIÓN DE LOS ENTALLADORES SEPTENTRIONALES A LOS COROS ESPAÑOLES DE FINALES DEL GÓTICO Y COMIENZOS DEL RENACIMIENTO

Abstract

Many of the finest choir stalls from the last years of the 15th and the 16th centuries in Spain were created by foreign artists or, at least, quite a few exogenous carvers participated in their construction. All these magnificent works show how these masters played a crucial role in the development of new stylistic features, as well as the flow of influences, and the relations and transfers between workshops and artists through Early Renaissance Europe, as well as how these works of art contributed to the 16th-century Spanish avant-garde. In the next few pages I will examine within a broader context the main Spanish choir stalls that date from the late Middle Ages to the 16th century and were made by foreign masters from northern Europe.