The story of the ephemeral in Álvar Gómez de Castro and Oliviero Capello: from documentary study to the recovery of festive architecture

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https://doi.org/10.13136/2284-2667/1561

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News Pamphlets, Ephemeral Architecture, Bibliographic Study, Stylistic analysis, 3D Virtual Recreation

Abstract

In 1560, Toledo was the setting of a public festival organized to receive Queen Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II. The city was decorated with various ephemeral ornaments, among them, five triumphal arches that supported a multitude of iconographic elements with which a message focused on the exaltation of the monarchy was transmitted. This article aims to show how the comparative study of two news pamphlets allows us today to approach the lost reality of an ephemeral architecture: the triumphal arch located next to the Puerta de Bisagra.

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2024-12-28