José RODA PEÑA

Original title: Escultura en la baja andalucía durante el siglo XVIII: síntesis interpretativa e historiografía reciente

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Keywords: 18th Century, Baroque Sculpture, Italian import, Western Andalusia.

We approach a synthetic study of the sculpture that took place during the 18th century in Lower Andalusia, offering a series of interpretative keys, to historical, aesthetic, stylistic and iconographic level, for its better comprehension. The prolongation of the baroque forms, the introduction of the Rococo current and the transit to the tempered plastic creations of the illustrated academicism, mark the sculptural production of local and foreign artists who worked at Western Andalusia (Seville, Cadiz, Huelva and Cordova), without forgetting the import of italian works, so much relevant in Cadiz area.