Memories from Toledo Cathedral: Juan Bravo de Acuña’s Description, and Nicolás de Vergara the Younger’s Plan and Ritual Drawings
Keywords:
Cathedral of Toledo, Description, Terminology, Gothic, Rituals, Liturgy, Royal visits, Philip II, Philip III, Nicolás de Vergara the Younger, Juan Bravo de Acuña, Gaspar de Quiroga, Bernardo de Sandoval y RojasCopyright (c) 2015 Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte
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Abstract
This article is devoted to the study and edition of some literary and graphic sources of the cathedral of Toledo during the reigns of Philip II and Philip III. On the one hand, the decription of the church written in 1604 by canon Juan Bravo de Acuña, wich incorporated a general plan drawn by the cathedral architect Nicolás de Vergara the Younger; on the other, five drawings by the same architect, dated between 1582 and 1601, representing the main entrance door "Puerta del Perdón" and the main chapel of the cathedral. These drawings are "choreographies" of some of the litugical celebrations performed there, either with the presence of the kings of Spain or with only that of the archbishops of Toledo