Seville: The city which inspired the painting

by delacybrown on February 6, 2012

Key to understanding the Seville Triptych I painted, as featured on yesterday’s Sunday Supplement, is the city which inspired it. While I’m sat on a plane (and hopefully not stuck in an airport with snow-induced delays) I’m posting in advance the photos I took of Seville, the star of Spain’s south and one of the most sensational cities I have ever visited. Now all you need is a bottle of rioja, some chorizo tapas and flamenco on CD and winter will be dismissed for good! Enjoy.

: Roof of La Catedral – amazing gothic details

: Ceramic dome and the square below

: Seats in Seville’s famous bullring

: Ceramic bridge in the Plaza de España

: Moorish details of islamic architecture in the Real Alcazar

: Slender palms and modernist signage in the Parque Maria Luisa

: Gardens of the Real Alcazar

: Palms and oranges

: Typical cityscape with Giralda and plams

: Moorish tiles

: Typical Seville architecture and colours

: Contrasting architecture by night

: Behind the bullring

: The original high-rise – the interior of the Catedral

: Cathedral roofs undulating like waves

: Street furniture

: Reflected image of the Real Alcazar in one of its pools

: The Plaza de España

: A tower of the Plaza de España seen from the Parque Maria Luisa

: Catedral seen through an arch of the nearby Alcazar

: Blossom in the Parque Maria Luisa

: Gold and blood; sol y sombra: Seville’s bullring

: Wall and ceramics in the Plaza de España

: Ceramics vase in the Plaza de España

: Modernist signage in the Parque Maria Luisa

: Room with a view: The Real Alcazar

: Fading grandeur

: Seville’s oranges, blue sky and white washed buildings

: Moorish geometric design

: Fallen oranges

: Catholicism: central to understanding the indomitable spirit of the city

: Gate in the Real Alcazar gardens

: Room with a view: this was the view from our hotel!

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