El retablo de Santa Juliana de Santillana del Mar (cantabria): revisión historiográfica y análisis histórico artístico.

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The following essay seeks to investigate about the study of the altarpiece of Santa Juliana of Santillana del Mar (Cantabria). It will also try to get more information about the identity of its unknown author. All this will lead us indirectly to the altarpiece of Santa Maria del Conceyu Of Llanes (Asturias), and to the artistic historiography that has related the Cantabrian and The Asturian one. This relationship is established through the possibility that the same author performed both works. In the same way, this dissertation aims to deepen the historical-artistic analysis of the altarpiece of Santillana del Mar, studying aspects such as the workshops from where the work could proceed. The objective will be to analyze the Spanish painting of Burgos workshops and how he exported his style to other places, as well as the boom of Burgos painting at the beginning of the 16th century. The analysis and development of hypotheses about the possible promoter of the altarpiece of Santa Juliana will lead us to study the patronage of the house of Mendoza. More specifically the Dukes of Infantado, characters who acted as the main artistic promoters of his time.