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The
Luis
de
Lucena
Chapel,
originally
called
Nuestra
Señora
de
los
Ángeles
or
Urbina,
is
a
chapel
located
in
Guadalajara
(Spain).
It
was
ordered
to
be
built
in
the
mid-16th
century
by
the
humanist
Luis
de
Lucena
and,
originally,
it
was
attached
to
the
church
of
San
Miguel
until
its
demolition
in
1887,
when
the
chapel
was
left
as
an
isolated
building.
In
the
second
decade
of
the
20th
century,
after
having
been
acquired
by
the
State,
it
was
restored
following
the
project
designed
by
the
architect
Ricardo
Velázquez
Bosco.
Since
then
it
served
as
a
warehouse
for
the
Provincial
Monuments
Commission
to
store
works
of
art,
artistic
pieces
and
archaeological
finds.
However,
it
was
not
until
the
end
of
the
century
when
it
was
equipped
with
the
necessary
interpretive
elements
so
that
the
plasterwork
of
the
Orozco
chapel,
the
recumbent
sculptures
of
Juan
Sánchez
de
Oznayo
and
his
wife,
and
some
fragments
of
the
tombs
of
the
counts
of
Tendilla.
The
chapel
enjoys
a
rich
symbology
that
is
developed
in
both
its
constructive
and
decorative
elements,
the
final
result
of
which
is
a
risky
aesthetic
program:
a
Mannerist
license,
positioned
in
the
dialectic
then
open
about
the
layout,
shape
and
dimensions
of
the
primitive
and
disappeared
temple
of
Solomon.
On
the
outside,
it
has
a
fortress
character
suggested
by
the
crenellated
cylindrical
bastions,
its
ashlar
base,
the
arrangement
of
the
bricks
at
the
top
–simulating
the
braiding
of
sapling
baskets–,
the
loopholes
and
the
windows
inserted
in
an
eave
of
complicated
geometry.
.
Furthermore,
the
latter
show
a
Davidic
psalm
in
the
edge
of
their
limestone
gutter.
All
those
elements
and
construction
material,
beyond
the
Mannerist
exercise,
relate
this
sacred
place
to
the
fortress
churches
of
the
French
Midi,
more
than
to
the
Hispanic
Mudejar.
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