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Capilla de la Concepcion: Mexico City

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Capilla de la Concepcion: Mexico City

Its patronage belonged to the horseman Twenty-four Don Gonzalo Nuñez de Sepulveda, who acquired it in 1654. The grate of the chapel I am finished in 1668 and in its closing they appear the shields of arms of his patrono. The interior is illuminated with a show window that represents the Martyrdom of San Pablo, work of Arnao de Flandes, made towards 1550. One second show window located in the lateral one straight presents/displays the date of 1789.

The altarpiece of this chapel was contracted in 1656 by the assembler Francisco Dionisio de Ribas, who I make an architectonic design, taking care of the accomplishment of the Alonso sculptures Martinez. The huge structure of this altarpiece articulates with salomónicas columns that form two bodies in horizontal and three streets in vertical. The altarpiece this presided over by a sculpture of the Immaculate Conception, flanked in lateral by others of San jOse and San Pablo. In the center of the second body it appears monumental crucifijo of principles of the century XVI that had to comprise of the previous altarpiece of the chapel, being taken advantage of in this. In the lateral ones they appear sculptures of San Gonzalo and San Antonio de Padua.

In the left wall of the chapel it appears a burial slab made in marble, with inscriptions and the shield of arms of the Sepulvedas, that was designed by the painter Juan de Loyal Valdés in 1664. In the right wall the tomb marble of Cardinal D. is had Francisco Javier Cienfuegos and Jovellanos, work of neogotico style made in 1881 with design of Manuel Opening, being worked by the factories Striped.

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