Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers . d successor Juan de Maeda. The-second and third stories, inthe Ionic and Corinthian styles, were added by Ambrosio de Vico be-tween 1568 and 1589. He also built an octagonal stage at the top,but that had soon to be removed as unsafe, so that the tower is nowonly 185 ft. high instead of the intended height of 265 ft. The was never built. The massive W. Facade was erected byAlonso Cano (1601-67) and Jose Oranados, with wide deviations fromthe plan of Siloe. The interior was not completed till 1703. Thecathedral of Granada is on the whole the
Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers . d successor Juan de Maeda. The-second and third stories, inthe Ionic and Corinthian styles, were added by Ambrosio de Vico be-tween 1568 and 1589. He also built an octagonal stage at the top,but that had soon to be removed as unsafe, so that the tower is nowonly 185 ft. high instead of the intended height of 265 ft. The was never built. The massive W. Facade was erected byAlonso Cano (1601-67) and Jose Oranados, with wide deviations fromthe plan of Siloe. The interior was not completed till 1703. Thecathedral of Granada is on the whole the best Renaissance buildingin Spain, and Mr. Fergusson considers that in respect of its plan itis one of the finest churches in Europe. The view of the cathedral isbeiug opened up by the removal of some of the adjoining buildings. The rich sculptures and paintings of the cathedral are dueprincipally to Alonso Cano, who fled from Valladolid to Granadawhen accused of the murder of his wife. At Granada he was CATIPHAL 01 ®fiANAPA 1 * • lletroi. iSagrarioPlizueli de las Pasie£as C : 1 CoJltactUria 2 CapUla. de San, Miguel 3 • » : Altar Ae Jerilr Na-zareno 5 • SanMago 6 CapUla, de Santa,Ana, 7 SaJvSebasti&n, 8 « San. Cecilia 9 - • Santa. Teresa, 10 JestisdelaCotuzwia 11 CapiUadelff-S?- laA-ntigwa, 12 • > N*S* duel Carmen. 13 • > N9-S^ delPilar11 Torre y Sala, capitular15 CapUla aePvagartSagrarin) CapUla. Real :1G Sepulcros 17 Retablo 18 ReHcarto sWSacristia, fl Cathedral. GRANADA. 46. Route. 383 appointed a racionero (prebendary) of the cathedral and devotedsixteen years of service to the church - fabric in his still extantobrador on the first floor of the N. tower. The sculptures are madeof marble from the quarries of Macael, in the Sierra de los Filabres(p. 344), which were exploited by the Romans and have furnishedmaterial for many of Granadas buildings. Above the Puebta Pbincipal is a large relief of the Incarnation, byJoti Risueno (17
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