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.
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lthough arrived in Quito in 1541 , only in 1580 the
Dominicans started to build his temple , with plans and
direction of Francisco Becerra , Extremadura architect.
The whole work was completed in the first half of the seventeenth
century. Next to the church , the gospel side , put aside chapel
for Our Lady of the Rosary, in which the most important later
brotherhood of the city was founded. Church and chapel were
adorned with fine carvings , rich altars , images and canvas
paneling package .
That primitive wealth in the temple is short : just the coffered ceiling . Not so in the Chapel of the Rosary , with its rococo altarpiece
more variegated , its decoration with gilded carvings on red background, the original columns with mixed vegetables and anthropomorphic elements and complicated gables with finials, all of which
complete a set of rare ornamental correctly.
From 1586 he worked in Santo Domingo Fray Pedro Bedon , who
may be taken by the founder of the Quito School of painting. For
the church and convent friar skilful carved and painted works that
can still be seen , as the oil of San Nicolas de Tolentino, or high
relief of the Blessed Reginald Dominican scapular receiving from
the hands of the Virgin, precious polychrome gold .
Also in the early days of Diego Robles, Toledo , author of the images of the Virgin Guápulo the most revered and Quinche , carved
reliefs for the choir of St. Pius V and St. Anthony of Florence,
which can now be seen in the Dominican museum , as well as
other tables.
The tower overlooks the Santo Domingo Dominican treasure later
plazaMás currently collected largely at the museum located on the
north side of the lower cloister , with wonderful pieces of great
Quito sculptors enriched : the Santo Domingo Father Carlos , the
San Juan de Dios Caspicara , the Saint Thomas Aquinas by Legarda . Other sizes of church and Dominican convent chapels remind
us rooted Quito popular devotions . Thus the birth of Caspicara
beautiful , with reclining , sweet and deeply sleeping child , and the
Virgin and St. Joseph keeping your dream , tender and absorbed
the two pieces of delicious stew . So the Virgin Milk , Mixed and
virgin grave deep face. And the Virgin of Aurora , as taken at dawn
processions , called “ Rosario de la Aurora “ .
The convent has a cloister with beautiful first floor of robust octagonal columns and arches around a cheerful garden.
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