Inside Alcala de Henares University chapel building facade, Madrid Province, Spain. The Chapel of San Ildefonso was the church of the Colegio Mayor
Inside Alcala de Henares University chapel building facade, Madrid Province, Spain. The Chapel of San Ildefonso was the church of the Colegio Mayor San Ildefonso of the University of Alcalá and was completed in 1516. Francisco Vallés and Antonio de Nebrija are buried there, and it presents the sepulchral monument of Cardinal Cisneros. The custom was that the most illustrious professors of the Complutense University were buried in this chapel. Linguists like Antonio de Nebrija, Diego López de Zúñiga, Juan de Vergara, Demetrio Ducas, Fernando Pinciano, Alfonso de Zamora, Pablo Coronel, Alonso de Alcalá. Doctors Francisco Vallés and Antonio de Cartagena. The architects of the Colegio Mayor, Pedro de Gumiel and José Sopeñ The tomb of Cardinal Cisneros is located in the presbytery of this Chapel. The design began in 1518 by Domenico Fancelli (who died in 1519), made in Carrara marble by Bartolomé Ordóñez, who died in 1520, and was completed by his disciples in 1521. It is considered a jewel of Renaissance funerary art.
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