Andrés García de Quiñones (1709–1784) was a Spanish architect of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period, active in
Salamanca.
Works
In Salamanca
*Finished the
Main square Main Square may refer to:
* Main Square, Plzeň
* Main Square (Bratislava)
* Main Square, Kraków
* Main Square, Maribor
* Main Square Festival, named after the Grand-Place in Arras, France
* Main Square (Toronto), a building complex
See also
* ...
and built the city hall.
*Jesuit seminary of
La Clerecia, now the Pontificia university, including:
**The Towers and the bell-gable.
**Patio de los estudios (cloister)
**Main staircase and the school's Great Hall (Theological Hall).
**Retables of the Visitation and of St. James.
In
Betanzos: The General archive of Galicia. Once finished the building was used as a barracks and is now the town hall.
Sources
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18th-century Spanish architects
Spanish Baroque architects
1709 births
1784 deaths
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