«Artistas y modelos». Imágenes arcaizantes en la escultura canaria del seiscientos. Garachico y su estela

Abstract

The importance of Garachico during the seventeenth century is proven by the many artists who settled there. Its privileged situation and booming economy, it becomes an important cultural and artistic focus. Its port grew in passenger traffic, entering the modes, types, styles... both northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula, which triumphed so in place that will give good results in the Six hundred. The case of the sculpture is particularly unique, because thanks to the presence of trained Andalusian workshops artists like Juan Gonzalez de Puga and Martín de Andújar Cantos, they devoted themselves first and expanded after some iconographic models, which lasted well into the eighteenth century in the hands of less experienced but equally valid artists. Its area of influence is wide because although in principle understood Garachico, Buenavista and Icod, the midseventeenth expanded into the valley of La Orotava coming to Santa Ursula, thanks to Blas Garcia Ravelo who formed Andújar settled in the northern town.