Palacio de Carlos V
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The Palacio de Carlos V ( German Palace of Charles V ) is a Renaissance palace that is located in the Alhambra of Granada . Emperor Charles V commissioned this castle in 1527, but it was never completed and he never lived there. The Museum of Fine Arts has been housed there since 1958 .
history
For the palace of Charles the Fifth , parts of the Naṣrid palaces in the Alhambra were demolished. The design for the two-storey, almost cubic-looking building, built around a round inner courtyard, dates back to 1526 and was developed by Pedro Machuca , who from 1527 also directed the construction for the next 20 years. After his death in 1550, his son Luis Machuca took over the reins , and when he died, Juan de Orea. In 1568 the work was stopped due to the strong Spanish debt; Charles's son and successor Philip II had to declare state bankruptcy in 1557 and again in 1575 and had already started building the Escorial near Madrid in 1563 . At this point in time, the outer facades were completed, but the upper colonnade was still missing in the inner courtyard , which was only added in 1616. The building remained unfinished into the 20th century.
After centuries of being in ruins, the palace was only given a roof in 1929. Since 1958, the building has housed the Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada (Museum of Fine Arts) and the Museum of the Alhambra, among others .
Building
The building has a square floor plan with a side length of 63 meters. Inside it has a circular inner courtyard ( patio ) with a diameter of 31 meters. This patio has a two-story gallery with columns made of conglomerate rock . The lower row of columns is made up of 31 Doric columns and the upper row of as many Ionic columns.
The storeys of the outer facade are also designed differently: the base storey is designed as a rustica made of pillow-shaped cuboids, similar to the Florentine Palazzo Strozzi (1489–1539), while the upper storey is structured by pilasters between which the windows are located. While the western and southern façades are richly decorated, this is not the case for the other two sides; these are covered by the other buildings of the Alhambra.
On the west and south side there is a Renaissance portal made of gray marble . The reliefs on the west portal show contemporary battle scenes based on Machuca's designs. At the northeast corner of the palace there is an octagonal chapel , but the planned high dome was never executed.
literature
- Georg Kauffmann: The art of the 16th century (= Propylaea art history in twelve volumes , Vol. 8). Berlin 1990, pp. 360-361.
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Coordinates: 37 ° 10 '36.4 " N , 3 ° 35' 23.7" W.