MASTERPIECES OF SPANISH BAROQUE, PART 2

An exalted artistic language

An episode from the series MASTERPIECES OF SPANISH BAROQUE ART

Synopsis

In Toledo, the Cathedral of Santa María features a 25-meter-high flamboyant altarpiece, a processional monstrance made of silver and gold, and a sacristy-museum housing works by El Greco, Goya, and Van Dyck.

In Segovia, the Gothic cathedral displays its forest of ribbed vaults, its chapels adorned with Flemish paintings, and its sumptuous tapestries.

Finally, in Salamanca, the new cathedral showcases its two Baroque organs, its eighteen chapels, and the work of the Churriguera brothers, the undisputed masters of Spanish Baroque.