San Isidoro del Campo Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of San Isidoro del Campo | |
|---|---|
 San Isidoro Monastery |
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| location |
 Spain Seville Province |
| Coordinates: | 37 ° 26 '2 " N , 6 ° 2' 12" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
695 |
| founding year | 1301 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1431 |
| Mother monastery | San Pedro de Gumiel Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
The Monastery of San Isidoro del Campo in Santiponce (the ancient Italica ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the province of Seville in Andalusia in Spain .
history
The monastery was founded around 1301 (the information varies between 1298 and 1302) by Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, known as Guzmán the Good, and his wife María Alfonso Coronel on the site of a Mozarabic hermitage where, according to tradition, Isidore was originally buried by Seville . Next to the church of the monastery, Guzman's son had a second church built. The monastery settled by the monastery of San Pedro de Gumiel belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey Morimond and was considered the southernmost Cistercian monastery in Western Europe. In 1431 the Cistercians were replaced by Hieronymite remits, these in 1568 by Hieronymite monks . During the abolition of the monastery under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal , the monastery was dissolved in 1836. However, the facility was retained. The monastery was restored in 2002.
Buildings and plant
The Gothic church, rebuilt in the 16th century, has two naves, of which the second was added later (“las iglesias gemelas”), the older a carved retable by Juan Martínez Montañés and the kneeling donor figures by the same artist and the younger the founder's grave and the Tomb that holds Urraca Osorio. The fortified monastery has two cloisters in Mudéjar style , one of which (“Claustro de los Evangelistas”) with frescoes from the 15th century, which were heavily restored in the 20th century. The other cloister (“Claustro de los Muertes”) is Gothic and has a double gallery. The sacristy dates from the 17th century and takes the place of the chapter room and dormitory. The chapter house was built in the 17th century. The refectory in the west of the cloister dates back to the 14th century and was richly decorated at the time of the Hieronymites. a. with a painting of the Last Supper.
literature
- San Isidoro del Campo (1301-2002), Fortaleza de la espiritualidad y santuario del poder, Andalucia, Consejeria de Cultura, Sevilla, 2002, ISBN 84-8266-290-2 .
- Alfonso Lowe, Andalusia, edited by André Herrmann, 2nd edition 1996, Munich: Prestel, pp. 139–140, ISBN 3-7913-1764-4 .
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 851 f.
