ART:
Goldsmithing is fully an art. since the goldsmith must understand aspects of design, such as drawing, architecture and sculpture, in order to capture in silver the shapes that he imagines and that he puts in relation within his work as a whole, creating beautiful and harmonic objects.
Far from the mechanized work of our 21st century, it can be affirmed that our techniques have changed little through time, and proof of this is the description made by Juan de Arfe and Benvenuto Cellini of their work, fully valid in the present
TRADITION:
Several centuries support the tradition of goldsmithing in Seville, which has demonstrated for many years its artistic capacity in numerous treasured works in temples, parishes and chapels, so that on some occasions or seasonally it surrenders itself to the multitudinous contemplation in the streets of this city, serving of exorno in processions and exalting the attributes of crucified and painful.
RELIGIOSITY:
Through religious art, there are those who feel closer to God by devotion. Goldsmithing has always been present in Sevillian religiosity, this delicate city has known how to understand that goldsmithing, more than an artistic trade, has been a way of understanding the city, its baroque spirit and achieving, through the objects made, raise the mind to spiritual
OUR COMPANY:
Arte Castilleja represents and is part of all this tradition, art and religiosity of centuries, with a team of the best goldsmith craftsmen in the city, together with a family tradition of three generations of goldsmiths.
WORKS WITH HISTORY
THRONE OF THE VIRGIN OF VICTORIA, PATRON SAINT OF MÁLAGA. YEAR 1985
THRONE MADE FOR THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE CALVARY OF MÁLAGA.
YEAR 1987
Presentation of the Palio passage and image of the Macarena.
From left to right:
Consul of Spain, rector of Universidad San Tomas, Mayor of Miami and Archbishop of Miami
Year 1997
WAGON FOR THE BROTHERHOOD OF ROCÍO DE JAÉN, YEAR 1996
ROCÍO DE GRANADA BROTHERHOOD CARRIAGE. YEAR 1996
THRONE OF TRANSFER IN SILVER OF LAW, OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE CAPTIVE OF MÁLAGA. YEAR 1987
BELL ARCH FOR THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE CAPTIVE OF MÁLAGA. YEAR 1986
CUSTODY OF LA LANTEJUELA (SEVILLE)
CUSTODY OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF CADIZ.
PASS OF THE GREAT POWER OF ALMONTE
PALIO OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE CAPTIVE OF CORIA DEL RIO (SEVILLE)