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  2. Solomonic column - Wikipedia

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    The columns became popular in Catholic Europe including southern Germany. The Solomonic column spread to Spain at about the same time as Bernini was making his new columns, and from Spain to Spanish colonies in the Americas, where the salomónica was often used in churches as an indispensable element of the Churrigueresque style.

  3. Santa María la Real of Nájera - Wikipedia

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    The main reredos dates back to the 17th century, of baroque style, and with big highly decorated Solomonic columns with vine grapes and leaves. The dressing room (Camarín) of the Virgin is located in the central part, with the original image, surrounded by the founders of the Benedictines , in its male ( Saint Benedict ) and female ( Saint ...

  4. Churrigueresque - Wikipedia

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    Between 1680 and 1720, the Churriguera popularized Guarino Guarini's blend of Solomonic columns and composite order, known as "supreme order". Between 1720 and 1760, the Churrigueresque column, or estipite , in the shape of an inverted cone or obelisk, was established as a central element of ornamental decoration.

  5. Spanish Baroque architecture - Wikipedia

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    Between 1680 and 1720, the Churriguera popularized Guarini's blend of Solomonic columns and Composite order, known as the "supreme order". Between 1720 and 1760, the Churrigueresque column, or estipite, in the shape of an inverted cone or obelisk, was established as a central element of ornamental decoration. The years from 1760 to 1780 saw a ...

  6. New Cathedral of Salamanca - Wikipedia

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    It preserves the first altarpiece in which Solomonic columns were used in Spain. It was assembled in 1664 as an act of atonement to house a canvas of the Immaculate Conception that had been outraged that same year when the face of the Virgin was slashed with a dagger by an opponent to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.

  7. Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca - Wikipedia

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    Six large solomonic columns, covered with vegetal decoration, run along the first body, in the center of which is the central tabernacle conceived as a small temple, flanked by a pair of columns on each side; between these and those of the two at the ends are two niches that shelter the sculptures of Saint Dominic and Saint Francis of Assisi ...

  8. Cathedral of the Savior of Zaragoza - Wikipedia

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    Below a canopy (pavilion-like draping of fabric) with Solomonic columns is a sculpture of Saint Pedro Arbués done by Juan Ramírez in the seventeenth century. Baroque doorway from the eighteenth century. Beginning with the foot of the cathedral, the chapels on the left side: Chapel of St. Bernard. This is one of the greatest works of the ...

  9. Church of San Pedro de los Francos - Wikipedia

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    Inside the main gilded Retablo at the high altar has Baroque Solomonic columns, and was completed in 1654. Other chapels include a retablo with Renaissance style panels. The various chapels include a virgin in a grotto. The adjacent ancient mudejar tower leans over the street. [1]