| Note: | L30 |
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| Object Name: | Fountain and atrio, Monastery of San Andres, Calpan | |
| Creation Date: | 16th Century | |
| Culture: | Mexican Colonial | |
| Location: | Monastery of San Andres, Calpan, Mexico | |
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| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| Monastery of San Andres Calpan The monastic establishment was built probably by Fray Juan de Alameda, between 1548 and 1552. The atria of this monastery has the most outstanding and ornamented set of posa chapels on the American continent. The four posas of Calpan are unique in their quality of stone carving and complex iconography, surpassing the posa chapels of the mother monastery at Huejotzingo. Although European models were also used for the decoration of the posas, the models were followed less strictly than in Huejotzingo. The result, consequently, is less European and more tequitqui. Their sculpted reliefs were exquisitely carved by native artisans in the service of their Franciscan patrons. The posas at Calpan were made with more architectural and sculptural freedom than the ones of Huejotzingo. They show nine different subjects; they have round and pyramidal domes and are decorated with a profusion of moldings, parapets, crowns, figures, and a diversity of sculptural motifs. In these posas the Mudejar, the Tequitqui, and both gothic and renaissance Plateresque are all but indissolubly one. | ||
