Ubeda: Sacred chapel of El Salvador, main facade| It is the pantheon of the palace of Francisco present of the gigantic snails and was left build for it in 1536. Has an overworked and very dressed plateresque retailer. The carving of the stone made by Stephen Jamete is simply unique and sublime. The west sol starts to the calcareous stones a few |inigualables| doradoes tones; moreover only with this light it can perfectly distinguish all details. The door, in round arch, has in the mythological gods intrados: Aeolus, sea, Vulcan, Anteo, bull's eye, mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter and lead. The frieze is decorated with scenes of the Exodo. In the body second a relief of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, and on it, in the third body, windows of arch formed by an exact semicircle, on those who goes a triangular pelota court. to the patrons of the door, two sustained shields for supporters,so of the taste of the Renaissance related architecture and that will meet frequency in Ubeda,, with the arms of the gigantic snails, always in the side of the gospel,, and of the Mendoza, the spouse of the Maecenas, which repeats to him in high more of the abutments and in the |óculos|. In the low part of the abutments to the left, the fight of Hercules and Gerión and, to the right, Hercules and the Gerión bullfightings. At night, lit up bounces still more. |
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