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Brick Geometries and Celestial Symmetry: The Mudéjar and Humanist Chapels of Alcalá near Madrid

Brick Geometries and Celestial Symmetry: The Mudéjar and Humanist Chapels of Alcalá near Madrid The chapels of Alcalá de Henares embody one of early modern Iberia’s most charged architectural conversations: Cardinal Cisneros’s humanist programme for the world’s first planned university city, executed by craftsmen of the Mudéjar tradition. At the […]

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