EGA (Mar 2012)

THE ROYAL CHAPEL OF THE ALCAZAR DE MADRID, AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING DOCUMENTATION TO COMPLETE A GRAPHIC RECONSTITUTION

  • Enrique Castaño Perea

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2012.1369
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 19
pp. 180 – 189

Abstract

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After the disappearance of the Alcazar of Madrid a numerous of Austrias vestiges were lost in Spain. One of the architectural lines of the time was the Alcazar chapel where they were held the main rituals of the court. The knowledge of this area gives us clues of the Habsburg monarchy and their relationships with other sectors of the seventeenth century in Spain. For this, they were organized and brought up to light all the documentary sources of the chapel and a rigorous work has been performen on the Chapel reconstruction

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