The April session of the Al-Andalus Chair will focus on the Authorship quotas in Seville Cathedral (1172-2014)through the lecture by Alfonso Jiménez Martín, architect and curator of Seville Cathedral from 1979 to 2015. His talk will take place on 27 April at 7.30 p.m. at the headquarters of the Fundación Tres Culturas.
It is well known that the Cathedral of Seville was begun as an aljama of the Almohad city in 1172 and completed in 1198; the data from this stage are exceptional for their rigour, accuracy and extent, as they even allow us to know the names of three of its 'authors' (Aḥmad b. Bāsu, cAlī al-Gumārī and Abū l-Layṯ al-Siqīllī) and to assume that of another (al-Hajj al-Jayy Ya'is). The great Gothic work began in 1433 and was essentially completed in 1506. It was directed successively by a series of architects whose names and dates are known to us with precision; The list includes the ogival masters Jehan Ysanbert (1433-1434), Pedro García (1434-1435), Charles Gauter de Rouen (1435-1447), Antoni Dalmau (1446-1449), Juan Normán (1449-1478), Francisco Rodríguez de Sevilla (1478-1482), Juan de Hoces (1482-1496), Simón de Colonia (1495-1499) and Alonso Rodríguez (1496-1512). Each one has a share of authorship, that is to say, none, as if we were giving the unlikely list of the 'authors' of a territory or a city.
Alfonso Jiménez Martín (Seville, 1946) is a lecturer at the University of Seville from 1968 to 2017, and has been a professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura since 1983. He was the architect-conservator of Seville Cathedral from 1979 to 2015. Between 1968 and the present day, he has designed and directed 106 restoration, new building, planning, exhibition, congress and public performance projects 66 monuments and complexes in western Andalusia. In 2002 he was awarded the National Restoration Prize and in 2012 the prize in the Archivo Hispalense de Investigación competition, History section. Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History of Madrid (since 1979), corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Granada (since 2005) and full member of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Sciences (since 2003). Director of 15 doctoral theses, several of them awarded, he has published, alone or in collaboration, 181 research texts, including articles and books.
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