Cathedrals of Spain
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Bermudez men- tions 149 names of those who embellished the Cathe- dral during six centuries. Here worked Borgona, Berruguete, Cespedes, and Villalpondo, Copin, Ver- gara Egas, and Covarrubias. It is rather difficult to analyze their genius. They were not naturally art- ists, as were the French and Italians; they did not create as easily, but were rather stimulated by a more naive craving for vast dimensions. With this we find interwoven in places the sparkling, jewel-like in- tricacy and play o...f light and shade so natural to the Moorish artisan, and the sombre, overpowering solemnity of the warlike Spanish cavalier.
It is necessary for a people at all times to find expression for its aesthetic life. Architecture, like literature, reflects the sentiments and tendencies of a nation's mind. As truly as Don Quixote, Don Juan, or the Cid express them, so do the stories told by Toledo, Leon, or Burgos. They reproduce the pas- sions, the dreams, the imagination, and the absurd- ities of the age which created them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Bermudez men- tions 149 names of those who embellished the Cathe- dral during six centuries. Here worked Borgona, Berruguete, Cespedes, and Villalpondo, Copin, Ver- gara Egas, and Covarrubias. It is rather difficult to analyze their genius. They were not naturally art- ists, as were the French and Italians; they did not create as easily, but were rather stimulated by a more naive craving for vast dimensions. With this we find interwoven in places the sparkling, jewel-like in- tricacy and play o...f light and shade so natural to the Moorish artisan, and the sombre, overpowering solemnity of the warlike Spanish cavalier.
It is necessary for a people at all times to find expression for its aesthetic life. Architecture, like literature, reflects the sentiments and tendencies of a nation's mind. As truly as Don Quixote, Don Juan, or the Cid express them, so do the stories told by Toledo, Leon, or Burgos. They reproduce the pas- sions, the dreams, the imagination, and the absurd- ities of the age which created them.
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