Immaculate Conception Convent in city of La Plata, Bolivia (1540): A look to the colonial area design

Convento de la Purísima Concepción de la ciudad de La Plata, Bolivia (1540): Una mirada al diseño de la época colonial

Convento da Puríssima Conceição da cidade de La Plata, Bolívia (1540): Um olhar sobre o desenho da época colonial

Matas Musso, Josefina Leonor
Detalles Bibliográficos
2020
Franciscans in Bolivia
mestizo style
mudejar style
design of the colony
convents
altarpieces
mestizos
franciscanos en Bolivia
estilo mestizo
estilo mudéjar
diseño de la colonia
conventos
retablos
mestizos
franciscanos na Bolívia
estilo mestiço
estilo mudéjar
desenho da colônia
conventos
retábulos
mestiços
Español
Universidad ORT Uruguay
RAD
https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/anales-de-investigacion-en-arquitectura/article/view/2985
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/4252
Acceso abierto
Derechos de autor 2020 Josefina Leonor Matas Musso
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Resumen:
Sumario:The objective of this article is to characterize one of the convents founded by the Franciscans in Sucre, as a response to the needs and requirements of the place and historical moment, carrying out an architectural analysis from the morphological, functional, spatial and stylistic aspects. To collect the information, an intensive review of primary sources obtained from the National Archive of Sucre was carried out, as well as a review of secondary sources, highlighting the work of researchers José de Mesa and Teresa Gisbert, together with rigorous field work aimed at Survey of the convent and the wooden architecture, in order to identify the furniture of the complex, a subject that has been scarcely or not registered to date. To fulfill the objective of this work, the history of the construction is presented, as well as the description and analysis of the convent and the temple, taking into account the influence of the altarpieces, in order to understand the relationship between the components to finish with the analysis of the exterior architecture.