El cementerio marinoarquitectura funeraria de Lluís Domènech i Montaner a Comillas

  1. Sama García, A. 1
  1. 1 Real Fábrica de Tapices
Zeitschrift:
Domenechiana: revista del Centre d'Estudis Lluís Domènech i Montaner

ISSN: 2339-7047

Datum der Publikation: 2013

Nummer: 1

Seiten: 90-132

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Domenechiana: revista del Centre d'Estudis Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Zusammenfassung

In the late nineteenth century, the Cantabrian population from Comillas experienced a vertiginous transformation in the hands of a catalan artisans group, who brought the emerging artistic trend of Renaissance to the Cantabric. They had been called by the López family, ennobled by Alfons XII with an immense fortune made in Cuba and developed afterwards in Barcelona. In this context, the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner had been commissioned by the second marquis of Comillas and an illustrious Comillian family to design two works of a funeral construction: the refurbishment of the local cemetery and the construction of the Piélago pantheon