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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spainen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1298-1890 (inclusive)en_US
dc.creatorFabré, Jaumeen_US
dc.creatorGual, Bartomeuen_US
dc.date1298-1890en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-24T15:42:00Z
dc.date.available2013-12-24T15:42:00Z
dc.date.issued1298-1890en_US
dc.identifier243862en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2698en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/152300
dc.descriptionFlying buttresses of the apse and seven radiating chapels and north bell tower; An outstanding example of Early Gothic architecture in Catalonia, Barcelona Cathedral was built during the height of the city’s prosperity. The present building is the third church on the site; the remains of the first, a Constantinian basilica of 559 CE (destroyed by the Moors in the 10th century), are still visible in a gallery 4 m below street level. The first stone of the new (third) cathedral was laid in 1298. By 1317, when Jaume Fabre came from Palma at the request of James II, King of Aragon, the first ambulatory chapels had been erected. Fabre oversaw the construction of the choir (1329) and transept (1338) and the installation of the relics of St Eulalia, to whom the cathedral is dedicated. The remainder of the nave, aisles and cloister were completed in the 15th century under Bartoloméu Gual and Andrés Escuder; the lantern and western façade were finally erected in 1887-1890 (to a design of 1408). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/21/2013)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectGothic (Medieval)en_US
dc.titleBarcelona Cathedralen_US
dc.title.alternativeCathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulaliaen_US
dc.title.alternativeCatedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulaliaen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-S-B-CHC-A03en_US
vra.culturalContextSpanish Catalanen_US
vra.techniquecarving (processes), construction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypecathedralen_US
dc.contributor.displayBartomeu Gual (Spanish architect, active 1398-1441); Jaume Fabré (Spanish architect, active ca. 1315-1340)en_US


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