A funeral model of Burgos school: The central chapels of the second half of the XV century in Burgos

Abstract

With this communication, I want to show the importance of Juan and Simon de Colonia and the Burgos Cathedral for the entire funeral late Gothic and Renaissance architecture. This architecture is influenced by previous chapels located in the Cathedral and, above all, it will influence in all subsequent funeral structures. The Colonia and their promoters are able to create a new typology of central chapel, often octagonal, covered with openwork star vault, sometimes, whose best representative is the Condestables Chapel. This type of chapels will become a typical model of Burgos School in the late fifteenth century and this will spread throughout the rest of the Peninsula in the Sixteenth century thanks to the heirs of the Colonia