Little-known wonders of Madrid: the stained glass windows of the crypt of the Almudena Cathedral
If we leave aside the dark inspiration that this type of place usually represents, generally, in the macabre evolution of people's thoughts and we observe them with the passionate vehemence that transcends everything beautiful, we will see the crypts as a set of splendid creations, in which the spirit is worshiped, with the wonderful complexities offered by any work subject to the unequivocal rules of Sacred Geometry.
Although modern, but millimetrically based on those antecedents that made Western architecture a complex system of identification with religion, in this case, Christian, which from the reign of Constantine, began to be considered with the official status of the State, the neo-Romanesque crypt of the Almudena Cathedral, can be considered as a true poem of Art and Architecture, ideal, to be seduced by each and every one of the vertiginous avatars that move the spirit.
Leaving aside that masterpiece that is its immeasurable forest of columns -which we have to total in the significant number of 400 and all, without exception, equipped with genuine capitals, carved with an exclusive variety of themes- and focusing on that willful perfection From its stained glass windows, whose antecedents suggest that medieval stonemasons also intended to recreate, at least, part of the solar transit -birth, death and resurrection- in their temples, we will have the opportunity to contemplate a show of relevant singularity.
Placed with scrupulous discretion, in a score of funerary chapels, in whose designs the majestic hands of sculptors of deserved international fame, such as Benlliure, intervened, the stained glass windows show, beyond the illusory perception of the archetypes of the religion they serve, a complex mosaic of fantasies, where light and color also recreate ideal settings for contemplation, the key being, on the other hand, the magnetism produced by an aesthetic of calm complexity, which floods the profound soliloquies to which these everlasting protagonists, Light and Darkness, in the rest of the ship.
In themselves and due to their natural origin, they already make up an extraordinary artistic heritage, as they were made by one of the oldest and most recognized artisan glass companies in Europe: Maumejean House.
In short: an ideal complement, the magic of whose light, filtered in the style of ancient and little-known alchemical techniques, makes the viewer's sensitivity reach heights of elegant sublimity.
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Wow, it's so beautiful this cathedral especially those simply stunning stained glass windows.
It is a place worth visiting. Thank you very much for your kind comment and best regards.
Before I begin, Madrid nowadays reminds me of MONEY HEIST. That epic moments of stealing all those gold in front of everyone. That was indeed an exciting series hehehe
While even though some of these architectures are ancient but they sure are fascinating to watch and even today they are being witnessed and the people are getting mesmerized by going through the history over and over again.
The first image reminds of the TV series The Sandman. A scene from the series implicates these scenario. Was kind of unique tbh.
I could not tell you, because I have not seen that series, but I can tell you that Madrid, right now, is one of the European capitals where it is worth investing, of course, whoever can afford it. On the other hand, these architectures are, as a whole and in my humble opinion, the heart and soul of the history of Europe and in each case, they define a country or a city. Madrid, apart from its excellence in Baroque architecture, for example, could also be the capital of Mudejar or Neo-Mudejar, which recalls its ancient Muslim history and defines many of its old buildings. I think that apart from this unique crypt, it has many other settings that could perfectly figure in many fictional series, such as the one you mention about Sandman. Thank you very much for your comment and best regards.
Stained glass windows are always amazing and so classic, they never go out of style.
Totally agree with your assessment. We could say, basically, that it is another of the possible innovations that are due to a style, the Gothic, which broke the mold at the time. Thank you very much for your comment and best regards.
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