Los techos tienen un diseño morisco hermoso. A lo
largo de la iglesia nos encontramos con combinaciones
de símbolos indígenas y católicas, como ángeles en la
forma del sol cuyos rostros tienen rasgos indígenas distintos.
S
an Francisco , the most imposing architectural monument
Quito . offers visitors the admiration of the temple , chapels
and convent . The set , which covers nearly two full blocks
and stands on a wide stone paved , so noble that Ernesto La Orden
called “ Escorial on the Andes.”
The construction of the church and convent Jodoco Ricke fray
began , shortly after the foundation of the city in 1536, and was
the work of architects and craftsmen like Fray Francisco Benitez ,
who took over the work in the last quarter of the sixteenth century
and finished in 1605. ( And he carved choir stalls and images ) .
Facade of church and convent stand on spacious atrium that runs
from end to end of the plaza, high skirting , all of stone, broken
only by means of giving access from the plaza by beautiful stone
staircase double fan.
The facade of the church is severe, within the canons of GrecoRoman Renaissance neoclassicism. Of their two bodies, the
former has a seated by Doric columns on solid foundations that
are confused with the socket , the upper columns have a smaller
fourth - Ionic . Hardly decoration : only Franciscan cord wrapping
, as trim , the large window above the main door, the statues of St.
Peter and St. Paul, on either side of the same window and a Christ
above all in beautifully crafted stones .
Upon entering the church is under the narthex of low ceiling deco-
rated with small painted , framed and surrounded by ornamental
set of cheerful faces of angels and flowers fabrics, everything ,
Italianate taste. The nave and transept is high , justly celebrated
, is supported by four arches . Side and side chapels has beautiful altarpieces. The altarpiece , full of statues , turn round the
presbytery . The coffered ceiling of the great ship was Mudejar
ornamentation until 1755 when the earthquake forced to replace
the current one. How was the Mudejar ornamentation can still be
seen at the top of the cruise.
San Francisco Church in Quito EcuadorLa amount of artistic
gems that keep the church and convent of the Franciscan convent
ordered now in museum - owners require very detailed guide . Of
particular beauty and magnitude are the altarpiece of San Antonio
de Padua, the more refined Neoclassical style, keeping on top under splendid canopy , one of the great masterpieces of Caspicara
, the group of the Assumption of the Virgin before the astonished
eyes of the apostles and , in front, on the other arm of the transept,
the altar decorated with embossed silver plates , whose center is a
prodigious size of San Francisco with silver wings , also Caspicara
. And , of course , the center ‘s altarpiece , motley collection dense
with meaning, from the seated images of the four evangelists in
the plinth to the crowning of the virtues , with the twelve apostles
in the intermediate streets. And in niches in the central , the Immaculate Legarda , and at the top , the group of the Baptism of the
Lord of Diego de Robles.
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