Francisco de Mora

Francisco de Mora ( * 1553 in Cuenca, † 1610 in Madrid) was a Spanish Renaissance architect. He is regarded as the leading exponent of Herrerianismo - one after the architect of the Escorial, Juan de Herrera (1530-1597), named style of the era of the Counter-Reformation.

Life

About the life of Francisco de Moras is virtually nothing is known. In 1591 he was appointed Maestro Mayor de las Obras Reales and in the following year to Maestro Mayor de la Villa de Madrid; both title he retained until his death.

Work

Buildings

• Alcázar of Segovia
• Escorial

• Plaza de Arrabal (now Plaza Mayor )
• Casa de la Panaderia
• Real Alcázar ( burned 1734)

• Iglesia de San Bernabé in El Escorial ( 1594/5 )
• Real Monasterio de Santa Isabel in Madrid ( 1596)
• Parts of the Monasterio de Uclés in Uclés ( 1598 )
• Palacio Ducal in Lerma (1601-1610)
• Convento de San José Ávila ( 1607)
• Facade of the Hospital de Santiago in Cuenca ( 1608)
• Convento de las Descalzas Real Valladolid

• Palacio de los councils or Palacio del duque de Uceda in Madrid ( 1609)

Palacio Ducal, Lerma

Convento de San José Ávila

Palacio de los councils, Madrid

Style

The style of the buildings Francisco de Moras is strict, that is, geometrically and largely without decor. Sometimes there is a blazon or the observed already at the Escorial balls. Even in the area of ​​the portal or in the corners of the buildings he designed, there are no architectural projections ( risalits ) that would interrupt the wall surface and thus loosen; only in his last works - especially in the Convento de San José in Avila - the surface dissolves a little. The austere style of his buildings became the model for imitators, including his nephew Juan Gómez de Mora, who was mainly active in the crowned in 1561, new capital, Madrid.