Juan de Colonia

Juan de Colonia or Johannes von Köln (about 1410,

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– August 3, 1481,

Burgos Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos. Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of t ...

) was a

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architect who introduced the

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style to Castile. About 1440 Juan de Colonia was invited by

Alfonso de Cartagena Alfonso de Santa María de Cartagena (variants: ''Alfonso de Carthagena'', ''Alonso de Cartagena''; 1384 in Burgos – 1456 in Villasandino) was a converso, Jewish convert to Christianity, a Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer o ...

, the then bishop of

to work on

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.The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, Volume 1, Oxford, 2012, p. 40, p.460. He also worked on the reconstruction of

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. While working in Burgos Juan married a local woman, María Fernández. After his death, his son

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succeeded him as master builder of the cathedral. 1410 births 1481 deaths Gothic architects 15th-century architects {{spain-architect-stub