El verdadero Sacro Monte, de Granada a La Salceda: Don Pedro González de Mendoza, Obispo de Sigüenza, y el Monte Celia

Abstract

The Spanish arthistorians have usually pointed out The Sacromonte in Granada, around the Colegio de San Cecilio, as the most proper candidate to compare to the ltalian Renaissance type of the Sacri Mont. Nevertheless, neither its religious functions (more ideological than simply devotional) nor its typology support the comparison. On the contrary, the man who challenged the brief of its founder and stopped its building, as his successor as the archbishop of Granada, promoved in his new Castilian see a new and true Sacromonte in the ltalian and Franciscan manner, merging in it the traditional Late-medieval iconography and new one proposed by the Counter Reformation. From this viewpoint, the humble Franciscan friar and aristocratic bishop is studied a patron of the arts, from Granada to the Monte Celia, and his last foundation also analysed as a public testimony of his thorough involvement in the expulsion of the Moriscos.