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La Iglesia de El Sagrario (Spanish, 'Church of the Sanctuary' or 'Church of the Shrine') is a Renaissance [1] Catholic Church in the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. It is located in the Historic Center of the city, on calle García Moreno , formerly known as calle de las Siete Cruces , a few meters from the corner with calle Eugenio Espejo .
With the support of the European Franciscan Congregation, the Ghent's clerics Jodoco Ricke and Pedro Gosseal, who were cousins of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, [4] they arrived in the city two years after its foundation, managed to acquire some plots on the southwest side of the Plaza Mayor de Quito, in the same place where one day the military seats of the heads of the imperial troops were ...
After restoration by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the church now houses the Museo de Arte Religioso. This is a museum of religious paintings and wooden carvings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building was listed in 1976 on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as "Convento de Porta Coeli".
Iglesia de San Felipe is located in Portobelo, a block to the east of Real Aduana. [2] [4] It is situated near the ruined 16th-century Capilla de San Juan de Dios.The Iglesia de San Felipe, a large white-painted building, [1] was the last structure built by Spain before leaving Panama.
The Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (Spanish: Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, MinCAP) is the Ministry of the State of Chile in charge of the design, formulation and implementation of cultural policies, plans and programs.
Romerías y santuarios de Galicia. publisher Galaxia. p. 20. ISBN 978-84-8288-704-3. Fuertes Domínguez, Gregorio (1969). Guía de Santiago, sus monumentos, su arte. Depósito Legal C. 325–1969. El Eco Franciscano. García Iglesias, José Manuel (1993). A catedral de Santiago: A Idade Moderna (in Galician). Xuntanxa. ISBN 8486614694.
Coronation of the Virgin by Enguerrand Quarton (1453-54), with Christ and God the Father as identical figures, as specified by the cleric who commissioned the work. Guido Reni's Archangel Michael tramples Satan (c. 1636, in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome).
The church chapel of La Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de Agua Santa contained many works of art in the style of Juan Gómez de Mora. [1] The convent refectory contained a two vara (about 1.67 m) sculpture of the Virgin of Mercy carved in 1603 by the Sevillian Martín Alonso de Mesa and an earlier (May, 1600) 9 by 5 vara painting by Angelino Medoro .