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Convent of Santo Domingo El Antiguo
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The monastery was founded by Alfonso VI after the conquest of Toledo, the first being authorized to intramural lifted. The existing temple of Cistercian convent of Santo Domingo de Silos was lifted in 1577, a resurgent mannerist style, with initial trace Nicolas de Vergara, as amended by Juan de Herrera. According to tradition there was a monastery here at the time of San Ildefonso.
The church has a Latin cross and consists of a single ship, with a chapel located on the side of the epistle, which communicates through a grate with the beautiful Chapter House. Just at the foot of the fence that separates the current chorus from the rest of the church, a glass hatch allows us to see the crypt where the probable remains of El Greco. At the bottom of the chorus in the wall that separates the choir of nuns is the comulgatorio Renaissance as a retablo.
A small window allowed the nuns closing take communion without being seen in the church. The draft of the altars and all his paintings was entrusted with the canon Don Diego del Castillo brought to Spain to Cretan painter. There are only three originals, dos Santos Juanes of the high altar and the Resurrection at San Ildefonso, the side.
The former choir and the choir-to form a museum with several altarpieces, sculptures in wood and stone slabs sepulchral moved there because of the reform, goldsmith and liturgical objects. Among the painters include Eugenio Cajés, Correa de Vivar and Sanchez Cotán.
At the bottom of the museum you can admire the beautiful tomb of the fourteenth century Gothic Juan Alfonso de Ajofrín.tIt also preserved many documents of the convent with his cabinet and archive the original contracts signed by El Greco.
Interesting facts of the monument:
Architectural Style: Maniero sixteenth century
Report for the visit:
Plaza Santa Isabel, s / n |
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