Gabriel Rivera Madrid

RETABLO DE LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE

GENERAL DESCRIPCIÓN

El retablo de la Virgen de Guadalupe han sido elaborado de acuerdo a las ISC tradicionales retablos de los del siglo XVII, los que corresponden al estilo salomónico; en consecuencia, para la elaboración of esta obra: if Cuido fall procedimiento Siguiendo ISC similares a las empleadas en esa epoch, como the Selección de la madera, el ensamblaje, madera en el tallado, the preparación para el dorado y la pintura de tablas. En este altarpiece presents a general composición adecuada aquel tiempo de los cánones, with a estructura dinámica, regular, simétrica y reticulada. The Traza diseñada para este if altarpiece consists: horizontalmente por un bench, a Predela, a body and a semicircular attic. In the vertical, The work consists of three streets: plant designed to house the paintings of Our Lady of Guadalupe holder, and the scene of the Coronation by the Trinity in heaven. The side streets open spaces for paintings: in the first and only, see the left side body to the Annunciation to the Virgin and to the right we see the Marriage of the Virgin. In the attic are two archangels flanking to escort the Coronation of the Virgin.

The Altarpiece of the Virgin of Guadalupe takes the form of the seventeenth century altarpieces, which follow a normal trace; are centralized because they draw the viewer's attention, as you can see the main street is the widest and highest of all, where is located the image owner; however the side streets are equally high but narrow, this format visually rises since the auction as decreases in proportion superimposed body which gives some perspective up. This corresponds to the characteristic tableau decorative plants which softens the stiffness of the lines of the construction elements; regularity of the predella is ornamented with thistle leaves bearing horizontal line across the colonnade, whose plant mark up gutters and ledges that are ahead preparing axes accents, Solomonic columns are tritóstilas, where the first third is decorated by regular tallies and the remaining two are occupied by the helical guides, marked by thistle leaves.

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GUADALUPE RETABLO

PLANT

Plant straight aligned columns according to the shape of the support wall

ELEVATION

Moved elevation where columns are isolated on the facing

TECHNICAL

The altarpiece is pictorial, are notable as easel paintings.

ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE

Facade of a single body, three streets, closed arch

ICONOGRAPHY

Marian altarpiece dedicated to the life of the Virgin of Guadalupe

DIMENSIONS

2.60High M, by 2.20 wide, without considering the bank, to adapt the space for which normally would measure 1m high, therefore the altarpiece with the bank would measure of 3,60 High M, by 2,20 wide, the reason that the bank is not considered because it is suitable to the place where it is installed, these dimensions are conducive to domestic chapels, or places of worship as a chapel or a tabernacle.

MATERIALS

Pine Woodcarving (as they used to be created these works in the Valley of Mexico), with preparation for gold golden 23 kts (This altarpiece is not gold, gold is applied when permanently installed, when you finish your exhibition). The paintings are done on canvas and oil on canvas.

Overall the performance of the altarpiece of the Virgin of Guadalupe is a work based on architectural techniques, pictorial, and seventeenth-century ornamental. However, is an original work since the study, design, composition, and implementation were performed by Dr.. in Arq. Gabriel Rivera Madrid.