Monuments of Seville (capital) .

House of the Pinelo - Academy of the Good Letters and Academy of Beautiful Arts

This building was constructed by one of the members of the family Pinelo, rich settled down genoveses retailers in Seville from second half of century XV. The building that today occupies the Academy is the result of the annexation of several houses bordering carried out from principles of century XVI by Pinelo Hieronymite, who conceived it like true house-palace. In a moment it happened to be property of the ecclesiastical Town hall, and until the Confiscation it served as residence of clergymen, specially of canons of the cathedral. Later, already into the hands of different proprietors, it knew diverse uses, and in the last years of the XIX and first half of the XX she was host of a hotel establishment called "Don Marcos". From 1966 it happened to be property of the City council of Seville, that destined it, after his restoration by the architect and academic Rafael Apple tree, to the Real Academies Sevillian of Good Letters and Beautiful Arts of Santa Isabel of Hungary, this one located in the superior plant of the house. The building is declared National Monument, gathered today like BIC in the inventory of the monumental set of Seville.

The most characteristic space in this case is the main patio, that is in antiquity and style third of the three great palatal patios of the Renaissance in Seville. First he would be the one of the House of Pilatos, next to the medieval mudejarismo. The second the one of the Palace of the Owners, an early renacentismo, still in agraz. The this third of the Pinelo, following Sevillian tradition of the previous ones, with fragile plaster decoration on arcs and spandrels lowered on marble columns of Genoa, represents, nevertheless, the fullness of the plateresco taste by root lombarda. The heads that appear in the tondos of the spandrels of the arcade are of mitológico subject and are inspired by seven books of Morning call (1542), pastoral work of Jorge de Montemayor. Around this patio the noblest spaces of present the Real Sevillian Academy of Good Letters articulate: the Assembly hall, with beautiful friso of yeserías with the arms of the Pinelo; the Library, with valuable adorned with caissons; the Boardroom; and the office of the Director, who conserves the writing-desk of Fernán Horseman. All these dependencies can today be contemplated in all their details thanks to the excellent illumination that has carried out generously the company Sevillana ENDESA.

Other excellent elements of the building are their different ones adorned with caissons with totally Renaissance decoration, that they denounce, nevertheless, their mudejarismo in the organization of their ligneous frameworks. Also its facade, with an interesting tower with first stage of stonecutting and the superior ones of brick; the small Renaissance vault that leads to the Boardroom; the stairs that take to the Academy of Beautiful Arts, in one of whose rooms it was born, according to the legend, San Juan of Shore, natural son of the first Duke of Alcala, Don Pedro Enríquez, and of Doña Teresa Pinelo; and the inner patio, with one doubles gallery of genovesas columns, a beautiful manierista source coming from the palace of the Levíes and a statue of Pomona, work of Juan Luis Vasallo. The Academy also has a pictorial collection constituted mainly by the gallery of pictures of its Directors and other outstanding members of the Corporation, as well as several pictures of painters of century XIX (Carcía Branches, Gonzalo Bilbao, Domínguez Bécquer, etc.).