Diego de Siloé

Diego de Siloé - Sagrada Familia (" Holy Family "); Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid

Diego de Siloé (* around 1495 in Burgos ; † October 22, 1563 in Granada ) was a Spanish architect and sculptor in the early Renaissance period .

Life

Diego de Siloé was (allegedly) the son of Gil de Siloe , a sculptor of French descent who died around 1500 as the "last representative of the Gothic style in Spain ". He is considered one of the main representatives of the Plateresque style . Siloé visited Italy in his youth and there created the epiphany around 1517 in the Neapolitan monastery of San Giovanni a Carbonara . In 1522/23 he created several tombs and completed the Escalera Dorada ("gilded staircase") in the cathedral of Burgos . Around 1526/27 he planned and began the tower floors of the church of the Asunción de Nuestra Señora in Santa María del Campo . His work in Salamanca is also attested.

The dome and Corinthian columns that he designed for the Cathedral of Granada (where he succeeded Enrique Egas in 1528 ) show his familiarity with Italian Renaissance architecture. He also designed and built (parts of) the main churches in Úbeda , Málaga and Guadix .

Diego de Siloé had a lasting influence on architecture and visual art in northern Spain as well as in Granada.

Web links

Commons : Diego de Siloé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Diego de Siloé - Biography ( Memento from May 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
• Diego de Siloé and Gil de Siloé - biographies (English)
• Diego de Siloé. In: arch INFORM . (Architecture)
• Diego de Siloé - sculptures