LA REJA DE LA CAPILLA DE SAN PEDRO DE LA CATEDRAL DE SIGÜENZA

Juan Carlos  Hernández-Núñez

doi:10.12795/LA.2011.i23.06

Authors

Juan Carlos Hernández-Núñez University of Seville. Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/LA.2011.i23.06

Keywords:

Renaissance, Chapel of Corpus Christi, Parish church of San Pedro, Cathedral of Sigüenza, Juan Francés, Pedro de Villanueva, Francisco de Peregrina, Spanish Civil War, Restoration, Chapel of Santa Librada, Cultural Heritage

Abstract

Though documental by Villamil at the end of the 19th century, the investigations developed in parallel to the works of restoration, they have contributed new news that alow to know better his contructive process, as well interventions that it has suffered throughout the time. Of these, the most significant was realized after the Spanish Civil War, by incorporating the friezes of the Santa Librada fence was destroyed during the contest. At the same time, the location of new documents they allow to extend the news that were had on his authors, the gatekeeper Juan Fracés and painters Pedro de Villanueva and Francisco Piregrina, and reconstruct the history and different stages of construction and decoration of the chapel Parish of San Pedro.