Una villa romana para Goya: Los avatares que transformaron un proyecto clásico, en el primer icono del racionalismo español

Abstract

The consideration of the Rincón de Goya pavilion as the icon of the newborn Modern Movement in Spain, has made it an object of abundant studies, but all of them start from the erroneous a priori principle of its original modern conception. A little ‐ known sketch of 1926 shows an image far removed from that modernity. Interesting ‐ ly, very similar to the result of the transformation that would suffer in the 50s. A deeper study and from a broader perspective, suggests that were the events of its complicated development, which led Mercadal towards rationalism. Including the garden in that analysis, an element that was really the object of the project, allows us to discover that the final result preserves the romanticism of the original idea, It ʹ s organizing the routes in a vital story of life of Goya. The colors of the pavilion, based on Ozenfant ʹ s palette, will be coherers of that story.