NEW DATA ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE CHURCH IN PEÑAFLOR (SEVILLE)

Abstract

Saint Peter the Apostle Church in Peñaflor (Seville) was built between 1780 and 1798, in a context of renewal of the archdiocese of Seville after the Lisbon earthquake. Since then it has exerted a magnetic attraction on art historians, based on its anomalous typological configuration in respect to the usual diocesan ecclesial models and the uncertainty that has surrounded its authorship, attributed up to now to Antonio de Figueroa. The present work expresses the first part of its constructive history, that reveals, as data of greatest interest for the historiography of the Sevillian architecture, that the true author of the temple was the master mason Antonio Caballero y García.