Abstract
One of the most interesting areas of research of the Gothic Revival in Argentina is the study of chapels built for the use of religious schools’ communities. Among these, the Chapel of La Misericordia helped to determine the scope and characteristics of the neo-Gothic style in Argentina. The windows are a recreation of the Gothic openings. Their decorative motifs derive from Winchester style manuscripts, while the figures clearly show Pre-Raphaelite reminiscences. This apparent aesthetic paradox conveys a message unchanged for centuries in a traditional medium such as a neo-Gothic cover, although adapted to the sentimental sensitivity for a girls’ school chapel. In this article we will focus on the iconographic analyses of the astounding stained-glass windows crafted in the 1930s by the Tiroler Glasmalerei Anstalt of Innsbruck.
Highlights
Resumen: Una de las áreas más interesantes dentro de la investigación del Revival Gótico en la Argentina es la que estudia las capillas construidas para uso de los alumnos de las escuelas católicas
Unlike many Latin American cities graced with colonial buildings, the architecture of Buenos Aires has taken its inspiration from Europe, mainly from France
The rare neo-Gothic edifices were at first churches built by Anglo-Saxon Protestants who arrived in Argentina over the first decades of the nineteenth century
Summary
Unlike many Latin American cities graced with colonial buildings, the architecture of Buenos Aires has taken its inspiration from Europe, mainly from France. One of the most interesting areas of research on Argentina’s Gothic Revival is the study of chapels built for the sole use of religious schools’ communities These understudied churches are located in several quarters of Buenos Aires, within premises of private Catholic schools. In the same plot there was an old Oratory dedicated to the Annunciation to Virgin Mary,[2] erected in 1871 next to a small school ruled by the Daughters of our Lady of Mercy, an Italian religious Order founded by Mother Josefa Roselló This original building was demolished in 1936 and a new chapel took its place, instituted on November 10, 1937 with the benediction of Dr Santiago Copello, Archbishop Cardinal of Buenos Aires.
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