Leonardo da Cutro and Ruy Lopez Play Chess at the Spanish Court
Leonardo da Cutro eta Ruy Lopez xakean jokatzen dute Espainiako Gortean c1871 Luigi Mussini margolari italiarraren eskutik (1813 – 1888); was linked to the Purismo and Nazarenes Movements.
This painting depicts a chess match between the Spanish chess master, author and Catholic priest Rodrigo “Ruy” López de Segura (1530 – 1580), against the Italian chess master Giovanni Leonardo da Cutro (Cutri), also known as Giovanni Leonardo di Bona (1542 – 1597); to whom he lost a chess match to in 1560, when they played in Rome,Italia.
In 1575 Giovanni won a chess match against Ruy Lopez in Madrid Spain, xakearen historian ezaguna den nazioarteko lehen maisu txapelketa irabazi eta bere garaiko xake maisu nagusi bihurtuz.
Eszenan, jakina, Cutro eta Lopez, partida gertutik ikusten duten ikusleekin batera Felipe II.a Espainiako erregea izan daitekeenarekin batera; Giovanni bere aulkitik altxatuta partida irabazi ostean.
Erregearen ondoan bere eskuineko atzealdean noble zahar bat dago, erregeen ezkerrean bere erregina gaztea eta bere bi txakur izan daitezkeenak, atzean dagoen neskamearekin batera zerbait xuxurlatzen.
Father to the left of the scene are other aristocrats that are standing behind a table covered with a green cloth that has a mantle clock on it; and to the front of it is a noble woman sitting in a chair, and to her left is a nobleman sitting in a chair as well, with what looks to be a teardrop pearl on the carpet next to his left foot.
The room is decorated with several tapestries and there are to large arched pane glass windows on either side of a passageway, that is comprised of an inner white marble frame, and an outer red marble frame.
Behind the people that are by the table is a marble fireplace that is beautifully engraved with a lions crest and other ornamentation, as well as two Roman male figure sculptures.
There is also wood paneling that goes around the perimeter of the room, that contain engraved designs on them in the upper portion and plain panels on the bottom, which compliments the parquet floor of the room.
Domeinu publikoko irudi baten erreprodukzioa da mihise inprimatua sarean.