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transformed the church into a ballroom. Three monks were imprisoner, then taken to Alicante to save their lives. Four other monks were martyred. In 1939 again six monks of Silos occupy the monastery and in 1953 also delivers the rest of it that had been occupied by the women's prison. In 1988, during
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The temple only has at present the nave of the feet and its chapels. The remaining bases inside the monastery allow to recreate the plant of a great church that did not become complete. Various reasons were unable to gather the enormous resources to continue a work as ambitious. It missed build the
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In the absence of the initial plans, it is unclear whether the two towers that were initially were contemplated, were due to Herrera. Anyway, its construction did not begin until 1729, starting with the tower of the side of the epistle, and in 1731 switched to lift the first body of the opposite
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at the beginning of his career. Ribera respected the initial facade although redecorated the door and windows. It can see the difference between windows of Herrera and of Ribera and comparing the classic window of the central attic with the rest, adorned with tufts,
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sent 14 monks from Valladolid and made the abbey dependent on the congregation of this Castilian city. The Catalan monks, were unhappy that their abbot was almost always Castilian, and took the opportunity of the Revolt to oust the Castilian monks.
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abolished all religious houses with less than twelve religious. Montserrat was closed along with other thousand Spanish monasteries and convents. The monastery became in 1837 in prison for women's with the nickname of
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Long ago it was customary to give a shout with the bells every day of the year in the evening, for the soul of Philip IV, as this is the time when it were told to the Benedictines the founder's death.
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the Priory of Norberto Núñez, culminates a complete restoration of all the buildings under the direction of architects Antón Capitel, Antonio Riviere and Consuelo Martorell.
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The street Calle Ancha de San Bernardo (Madrid) in the first third of the 19th century, with the Nuestra Señora de Montserrat to the right and the
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To compensate for the slope of the street, Herrera placed on a high base three narrow bodies with larger and smaller bodies pressed together. The
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to the left (engraving by James B. Allen, based on an original drawing of the painter David Roberts, made during his trip to Spain in 1832-33).
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style, unfolding frequently. After the death of Herrera in 1671, Gaspar de la Peña will continue with the work without finishing the
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eggs which, according to tradition, was an offering of a rich merchant of the Americas. In the novel "Miau" of
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The paintings of the vaults, stories of the life of Saint Benedict, were made in the early 18th century by
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who also it commissioned the shields beneath the choir and a large painting of St. Basil, lost.
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abruptly interrupted the life of the community. The monks sought refuge in friendly houses, the
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and their Conceptionist nuns, who were expelled in 1868. In 1918 the church was ceded to the
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side, concluding only the first in 1740. Characteristic work of the decorative dynamism of
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La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, de Madrid y la Real Academia de San Fernando
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Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar
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of 17th century, consisting the Ribera's contribution in the ornamental coating.
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in Rome and is considered one of the most complex and elaborate buildings of the
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because it was not possible to complete the building as originally projected.
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is told the fear imposed by this picture with its hair of natural hair.
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indicates that in one of its chapels it kept a wooden crucifix work by
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and the main facade. The works will be abandoned until 1716 that takes
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is not architecture to be described and photographed, but to be seen.
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Known as "el montserratico" is a construction according to Professor
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Work on the building did not begin until 1668, during the reign of
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In its enclosure was buried the writer and Comendador of the
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Buildings and structures in Universidad neighborhood, Madrid
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Location of Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat in Spain
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17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Spain
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Nuestra Señora de Montserrat
Spanish

Madrid
Spain
40°25′39″N 3°42′23″W / 40.427619°N 3.706494°W / 40.427619; -3.706494
Spanish Cultural Heritage
Our Lady of Montserrat Church, Madrid is located in Spain

Spanish
Baroque
Roman Catholic
Madrid
bays
Philip IV
Castilian
Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey
Catalan Revolt
Benedictine
Catalonia
Castilian
Valladolid
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Charles II
Sebastián Herrera Barnuevo
Gilet
Kingdom of Valencia
Church of the Gesù
Vignola
Madrilenian

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