COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Metropolitan Cathedral
Alternate Title:
Catedral Metropolitana
Image View:
Details of the facade above the western ornamental relief, "The Presentation of the Keys"
Creator:
Claudio de Arciniega (Mexican architect, ca. 1526-1593); Jerónimo de Balbás (Mexican architect, ca. 1680-1748)
Location:
site: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
GPS:
+19.434238-99.133022
Date:
1563-1813 (inclusive)
Cultural Context:
Mexican
Style Period:
Baroque; Churrigueresque; Spanish Colonial
Work Type 1:
cathedral
Classification:
architecture
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; Solomonic column; twisted column
Description:
The second Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City (begun 1563) was built in the Plaza Mayor (now Plaza de la Constitución) in the centre of the city, near the site where the Aztec Templo Mayor was later discovered. It was based on Jaén Cathedral in Spain, and construction was continued under Claudio de Arciniega and Juan Miguel de Agüero ( fl 1574-1613); the cathedral was dedicated in 1656, although the towers were completed only in 1813. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordar…
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier:
1A2-M-MC-CM-B8
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Metropolitan Cathedral
