Gothic Art - 7 Spain and Portugal: Architecture and Sculpture

Spain.

XIII Century.
Tarragona
Lérida
Ávila
Cuenca
Burgos: latin cross plant, three naves, many chapels, amazing cloister, lots of sculptures. The last six images are about the chapel of the Condestable.
Toledo: five naves, radiating, squared and semicircular chapels. Here is the chapel of Don Álvaro de Luna.
León: very solid building. Three naves. The head is bigger than common. Use of quadripartite vaults. Use of polychromed windows. Great central rosette.

XIV Century.
Barcelona: three naves, plant of salon, chapels, little triforium.
Girona: built with only one nave. Here is the sculpture San Carlomagno by Jaime Cascalls.
Palma de Mallorca: epic cathedral, use of pillars that would be pre-salomonic.
Santa María del Mar: great buttresses and open chapels. Very tall and dark interior. Three naves, being the central one the sum of the other two. Nice rosettes.
Valencia: it is interesting to see the three doors, one romanesque, other gothic and other baroque.
Pamplona.
Monastery of Poblet: this was the pantheon of the Corona de Aragón from XIV to XV century.

XV Century.
Sevilla: five naves and almost same height in naves. Here is the tomb of Christopher Columbus.
There are adds in Toledo, like the Door of the Lions or the chapel of Don Álvaro de Luna by Hanequin of Brussels. Also in Burgos, because John of Cologne use spires in the towers, and his son Simon of Cologne melt it with mudejar, like in the chapel of the Condestable.
Palencia: the tower was for military use but when it was done, was built the pinnacle.
Salamanca: the new cathedral, mixes gothic, renaissance and baroque.
Segovia: one of the latest gothic cathedrals of Spain and Europe, because it was built in XVI century, when in Europe was the Renaissance.
Murcia: of various styles, need to name here the chapel of the Velez. The facade is baroque.
Cartuja de Miraflores: here is the sepulchre of Juan II de Castilla and Isabel de Portugal.
Isabelline gothic, also called Catholic Kings style, is a style of Castile that represents the transition between final gothic and initial renaissance, with gothic structural characteristics and castillan, mudejar, flemish and italian decoration.

Sculpture.

Castilla.
XIII Century: french influence. Sculptures of the cathedrals of León and Burgos.
XIV Century: decandence. In Toledo is the tower of the clock and also sepulchres in the cathedral of Ávila. In the second/third of the century there are three points: Toledo (with the chapel of Don Álvaro de Luna and the doors of the Lions), Burgos (the adds by Simon of Cologne in the chapel of Condestable and Gil de Siloe with the sepulchre of Juan II and Isabel de Portugal in the Cartuja de Miraflores) and Sevilla (adds in the cathedral by Lorenzo Mercadante and also the sepulchre of cardenal Cervantes).

Aragón.
XIII Century: nothing important.
XIV Century: sepulchres in Seo de Zaragoza (see Mudéjar in Arab Art for all about Seo) and also the tombs of the Kings of Aragón in Poblet by Jaime Cascalls, and also the San Carlomagno of Girona. Pere Morey and Juan de Valenciennes work in the cathedral of Palma de Mallorca.
XV Century: adds in Palma de Mallorca, Pere Joan makes the altar in Tarragona and the altar of Seo de Zaragoza.

Navarra.
XIII and XIV Centuries: related with french sculpture. Jacques Perut works in Pamplona in the Puerta Preciosa.
XV Century: Janin de Lomme makes the sepulchre of Carlos el Noble and his wife in Pamplona.

Portugal.
Alcobaça.
Coimbra: there are two cathedrals. The old is romanesque with gothic cloister and the new is mannerist and baroque. In the images are the new one, I just was confused.
Lisboa.
Batalha.
Manueline style is the gothic that happen since first/third of XVI century over the reign of Manuel I the Lucky. Use of late gothic elements mixed with renaissance.
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos: the most important thing here is the cloister.
Convento de Cristo (Tomar): the decoration is amazing, mostly in exterior. It was a place for the knights of Christ.

Music: Se madame je puis veir by Guillaume Dufay