Cathedral of Granada
Granada Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Incarnation, 1561. Unlike most cathedrals in Spain, construction of this cathedral had to await the acquisition of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada from its Muslim rulers in 1492; while its very early plans had Gothic designs, the construction of the church in the main occurred at a time when Spanish Renaissance designs were supplanting the Gothic regnant in Spanish architecture of prior centuries. The cathedral is Gothic in plan and proportion, the details are Renaissance. The groin vaulting is Gothic intersecting arches. The main arches are round with a suggestion of a horseshoe. The five naves are divided by huge pillars of the Corinthian order. Gothic vaults rise on the Renaissance pillars.
Granada, Spain, 2015
Cathedral of Granada
Granada Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Incarnation, 1561. Unlike most cathedrals in Spain, construction of this cathedral had to await the acquisition of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada from its Muslim rulers in 1492; while its very early plans had Gothic designs, the construction of the church in the main occurred at a time when Spanish Renaissance designs were supplanting the Gothic regnant in Spanish architecture of prior centuries. The cathedral is Gothic in plan and proportion, the details are Renaissance. The groin vaulting is Gothic intersecting arches. The main arches are round with a suggestion of a horseshoe. The five naves are divided by huge pillars of the Corinthian order. Gothic vaults rise on the Renaissance pillars.
Granada, Spain, 2015