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Author: Juan Nicolau Castro:
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The Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción
(Our Lady of the Conception), founded by Pascual of Aragon and Cordoba,
houses within its walls a veritable treasure trove, with magnificent
examples of Flemish painting by Memling and De Vos, Italian works by
Zucaro. Cambiaso, Reni, Dolci and Nuvolone, to name but a few, works by
Spanish artists such as el Greco, Céspedes, Morales, Hiepes or Claudio
Coello, sculpture, luxury art, gold- and silverwork and an interesting
collection of Talavera pottery, with pieces of incalculable value.
The
work studies the life of its founder, analysing the construction of the
building in detail (a work by Bartolomé Zumbigo), but it is, above all,
a tour of the artistic heritage the convent contains.
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