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Description: | Louis de Caullery, was an innovative Flemish painter of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was strongly influenced by the Italian masters, and his style proved influential in Flanders. The Escorial Palace was built to the north west of Madrid by Philip II in the second half of the sixteenth century, so would have been quite new in de Caullery's lifetime. About 600 feet long, 500 feet wide, with 2,600 windows 1,200 doors, and over 100 miles of passages, the imposing structure was conceived as a monastery and a burial place for the Spanish kings. Philip II directed the Spanish Inquisition from inside its walls. In this painting de Caullery depicted the palace almost as a graphic plan of the building, from a high view point. This gives the viewer the opportunity to appreciate the vast scale of the building, emphasised by the tiny people. | Subjects: | buildings and gardens; figure; animal (horses and dogs) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Caullery, Louis de (Flemish painter, before 1582-after 1621) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8643... | Go to resource |
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