The Second Phase of the Hall of Mirrors: the Writing Desks and the Firedogs Ordered by Velazquez to Italy (1649-1660)

• Published in: Anales de Historia del Arte
• Main Author: Cruz Yábar, Juan María
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Ediciones Complutense 2017
• Subjects: Lions; Table tops; Firedogs; Diego Velasquez; Matteo Bonucelli; Alessandro Algardi; Count of Oñate; Juan de Córdoba; Duke of Terranova.; leones; tableros; morillos; Diego Velázquez; Matteo Bonucelli; Alessandro Algardi; Conde de Oñate; Juan de Córdoba; Duque de Terranova.; Alcázar; Pórfido; Terranova
• Online Access: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ANHA/article/view/57484; https://doi.org/10.5209/ANHA.57484

We are reviewing the decoration commissioned by Velazquez to Italy bound for the Hall of Mirrors in the Alcazar in the decade of 1650, and we reveal how the famous lions were conceived with cornucopias on the heads to be used as torch stands before he had to adapt them as table supports. Being in Ma...