To browse Academia. Despite the clear allegiance of the foundation to the Cistercians from the outset, the idea that the abbey was inspired by and even modelled on the nunnery of Fontevraud in Anjou is an encroaching commonplace in accounts of medieval Spanish history and art history around This study re-evaluates the arguments for that perception and puts forward a different reading of the early years of Las Huelgas, not as a foreign importation but as a peculiarly Iberian, even Castilian, institution.
Gothic Architecture in Spain: Invention and Imitation, The purpose of this paper is to re consider Capilla de los Reyes in the Convent of Saint Dominic in Valencia, its possible function s and to assess the intentions behind its founding by king Alfonso V, king of Aragon, Sicily and Naples.
This exceptional chapel, famous for its tenebrous grey diamond vaults, was built by architect Francesc Baldomar between and It belonged to a tradition of places of worship associated with royal residences in different cities in the Crown of Aragon, an entity composed by three kingdoms and a principality that were united only by the rule of a single dynasty.
In an age of itinerant kingship, it was imperative to display magnificence, not only through palaces and residences, but also through chapels, cathedrals, monasteries and oratories. The royal chapel in Saint Dominic is undeniably a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture, but the patterns of intention for its function remain blurred and subject to further research. This was also one of a series of shrines where monarchic ideals of piety and proximity to the sacred could be made manifest: values of particular significance for a dynasty that made no claims to sacral kingship, but which nonetheless required a sense of royal sovereignty linked to holiness.
LYONS eds. Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Arte y liturgia en los monasterios de dominicas en Castilla. This article investigates the careers of three lesser-known clerics from medieval Castile during the reign of Alfonso VIII of Castile r.
