Pedro Sanchez Falconete
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Pedro Sanchez Falconete was a Spanish architect of Seville
, the completer of the palatial urban structure that houses the Archivo General de Indias
in the city.
In 1644, on the foundations of the medieval humanitarian Hospital de la Caridad, Seville, a new church was erected to plans of Falconete, altered in the long, slow course of construction by Leonardo de Figueroa.
At the Iglesia del Sagrario he designed the Puerta del Perdón and another grand doorway. The modifications of the Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca are also to his design.
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
, the completer of the palatial urban structure that houses the Archivo General de Indias
Archivo General de Indias
The Archivo General de Indias , housed in Seville, Spain, in the ancient merchants' exchange, the Casa Lonja de Mercaderes, is the document repository of extremely valuable archival documents illustrating the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines...
in the city.
In 1644, on the foundations of the medieval humanitarian Hospital de la Caridad, Seville, a new church was erected to plans of Falconete, altered in the long, slow course of construction by Leonardo de Figueroa.
At the Iglesia del Sagrario he designed the Puerta del Perdón and another grand doorway. The modifications of the Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca are also to his design.
Further reading
- Cruz Isidoro, Fernando, El Arquitecto Sevillano Pedro Sanchez Falconete (Seville: Diputación Provincial) 1991.
- Morales Martínez, Alfredo José. "Sobre Pedro Sánchez Falconete, maestro mayor del Ayuntamiento de Sevilla" Archivo hispalense: Revista histórica, literaria y artística, 75, number 229, (1992:131-152).