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"The Cathedral of Toledo is a world in itself, the centuries bestowing it with such an accumulation of great works of art, very diverse one from another, that the fabulousness of its riches and the attractiveness of its diversity, produce to the point of incredulity an impression of astonishment."
El Transparente. El Transparente is a Baroque altarpiece in the ambulatory of the Cathedral of Toledo.Its name refers to the unique illumination provided by a large skylight cut very high up into the thick wall across the ambulatory, and another hole cut into the back of the altarpiece itself to allow shafts of sunlight to strike the tabernacle.
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The Iglesia de Santo Tomé is a church located in the historical center of the city of Toledo , and was founded after the reconquest of this city by King Alfonso VI of León. [1] It appears quoted in the 12th century, as constructed on the site of an old mosque of the 11th century. [ 2 ]
Still in his father's life, the council of the Toledo Cathedral of Toledo named him his sculptor in the year 1573. Together with his father, he performed the two bronze lecterns of the choir of the Cathedral, and when his father died two years later, he worked with his brother Juan de Vergara, to finish the stained glass windows of the cathedral, works that ended in 1580 .
Toledo Cathedral. Narciso Tomé (1690–1742) was a Spanish architect and sculptor of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. [1] Tomé was born in Toro, Spain. With his brother, Diego, he sculpted the facade of the University of Valladolid in 1715.
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Raymond of Toledo, Archbishop of Toledo from 1126 to 1151, started the first translation efforts at the library of the Cathedral of Toledo, where he led a team of translators who included Mozarabic Toledans, Jewish scholars, Madrasah teachers, and monks from the Order of Cluny. They translated many works, usually from Arabic, Hebrew and Greek ...