Pedro Dávila y Zúñiga (1498-1567), 1st Marquis of Las Navas, was a prominent figure in the courts of Charles V and Philip II; in the words of Manuel Gómez-Moreno, a ‘champion of the Renaissance’.
This study brings together his many personal and artistic relationships within the framework of the cosmopolitan Hispanic court and through a lifetime of travels. His humanist interests materialised in his library and his antiquarian collection, of which the National Archaeological Museum possesses nine Roman pieces from the Magalia castle-palace in Las Navas del Marqués and two Vettones boars from the Dávila palace in Ávila. In addition, this institution holds the funerary tombstone of the 1st Marquises of Las Navas, the main work of art commissioned by Pedro Dávila, which raises the idea of love post mortem in a virtuoso literary and iconographic exercise on true friendship, conjugal love and the rites of marriage.
Collection: Multimedia
Project: 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe., 5. Power and powers in the history of Europe: oligarchies, political participation and democracy.
Chronology: -
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4QtsUnRHZQ&feature=em
Resource type: Video
Format: Multimedia
Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: Pedro Dávila y Zúñiga (1498-1567), 1st Marquis of Las Navas, was a prominent figure in the courts of Charles V and Philip II; in the words of Manuel Gómez-Moreno, a 'champion of the Renaissance'. This study brings together his many personal and artistic relationships within the framework of the cosmopolitan Hispanic court and through a lifetime of travels. His humanist interests materialised in his library and his antiquarian collection, of which the National Archaeological Museum possesses nine Roman pieces from the Magalia castle-palace in Las Navas del Marqués and two Vettones boars from the Dávila palace in Ávila. In addition, this institution holds the funerary tombstone of the 1st Marquises of Las Navas, the main work of art commissioned by Pedro Dávila, which raises the idea of love post mortem in a virtuoso literary and iconographic exercise on true friendship, conjugal love and the rites of marriage.
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