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Escorial: Interior detail of side wall, the Royal Pantheon showing stacked sarcophagi

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posted on 2017-07-05, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
The place of burial for the kings of Spain. It is an octagonal Baroque mausoleum made of marble where all of the Spanish monarchs since Charles I have been buried, with the exception of Philip V, Ferdinand of Savoy, and Amadeus of Savoy. The sarcaphagi are bronze and marble.\u000a\u000aA complex which contains a monastery, palace, school, mausoleum and museum; Philip II built the monastery 1563-1584 as a memorial to victory over French in 1557. It became his main residence and was later was the dynastic center of the Spanish Hapsburgs. The monastery was originally a property of the Hieronymite monks, it is now a monastery of the Order of Saint Augustine. The church of the monastery is the Basilica of San Lorenzo el Real.

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Alt Title

El Real Monasterio de El Escorial

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-07-05

Spatial Coverage

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain: ca. 45 km northwest of Madrid|+40.58175-4.126417|San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

Renaissance

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To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.

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