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The Old Cathedral (Spanish: ''Catedral Vieja de Santa María'') is one of two cathedrals in
The Old Cathedral (Spanish: ''Catedral Vieja de Santa María'') is one of two cathedrals in Salamanca
Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Herit ...
, Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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, the other being the New Cathedral of Salamanca
The New Cathedral ( es, Catedral Nueva) is, together with the Old Cathedral, Salamanca, Old Cathedral, one of the two cathedrals of Salamanca, Spain. It was constructed between the 16th and 18th centuries in two styles: late Gothic architecture, ...
. The two cathedrals are joined together.
History
It was founded by Bishop Jerome of Périgord, in the 12th century and completed in Romanesque/ Gothic style in the 14th century. It is dedicated to Santa Maria de la Sede (Saint Mary of the See). The apse houses a large cycle of 53 tableaux, 12 of which by the 15th-century Italian artist Dello Delli, depicting the life ofJesus
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...
and the Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
. A fresco of the ''Final Judgement'' is over them.
Juan Francés de Iribarren Juan Francés de Iribarren ( Sangüesa, 1699 – Málaga, 2 September 1767) was a Spanish late baroque composer.
Life and career
Iribarren was christened on 24 March 1699 at the Church of St. James the Great in Sangüesa. He was a choirboy in the ...
was organist at the Old Cathedral in 1717–1733. Its crossing tower inspired American architect H.H. Richardson's celebrated 1872 design for the central tower of Trinity Church (Boston)
Trinity Church in the City of Boston, located in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The congregation, currently standing at approximately 4,000 households, was founded in 17 ...
.O'Gorman, James, "Living Architecture, a Biography of HH Richardson," Simon & Schuster, New York, NY (1997) at 146.
Interior gallery
See also
* New Cathedral, Salamanca *History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes
The early domes of the Middle Ages, particularly in those areas recently under Byzantine control, were an extension of earlier Roman architecture. The domed church architecture of Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries followed that of the ...
References
Further reading
* BRASAS EGIDO, José Carlos: "Catedral de Salamanca", in ''Las Catedrales de Castilla y León'', León: Edilesa, 1992. * CASASECA CASASECA, Antonio: ''Las Catedrales de Salamanca''. Salamanca: Edilesa, 2008. * GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ, P. J.; VICENTE BAZ, R. ''Guía del Archivo y Biblioteca de la Catedral de Salamanca''. Salamanca: Catedral, 2007. * IERONIMUS ''900 años de arte y de historia'' xhibition catalogue Salamanca: Catedral de Salamanca, 2002:0 {{Authority control Roman Catholic churches in SalamancaSalamanca
Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Herit ...
Romanesque architecture in Castile and León
14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Spain
Gothic architecture in Castile and León