The basilica of Santa Maria de Oviedo: from royal Pantheon to double cathedral. Restitution Hypothesis based on compositional and metrological analysis

Abstract

The Basilica of Santa Maria de Oviedo (now “Rey Casto” Chapel of the Cathedral), was the lower church of the "Double Cathedral" Oviedo. For historians, the purpose of this building was the royal pantheon, creating a formal architectural framework around the tombs of the kings of Asturias, associated funerary cult in memory of the monarchs. This vision has been maintained, despite non-membership archeology shows the cemetery to the original draft of the building, which is deducted important morphological and functional changes in it. Analysis techniques based on computer graphics and numerical approach to serve the reasonable assumptions that allow the reconstruction of this building still missing.

Keywords

• Catedral doble
• Panteón
• Reino de Asturias