Study and Analysis of Existing Historical Burials: The Position of the Dead inside the Co-Cathedral of Sta, Maria in Cáceres (Spain)

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Franco, Pablo A. Cruz^1 ; Plata, Adela Rueda Marquez De La^1 ; Perez, Juan Pedro Cortes^1 ; Pedro, Jose Miguel Rueda Munoz De San^2

University of Extremadura, Av/Universidad s/n, Cáceres, Spain^1

Instituto de Estudios Heráldicos y Genealógicos de Extremadura, Plaza de Sta. María 2, Cáceres

10003, Spain^2

关键词: Architectural evolution;    Architectural points;    Dimensional analysis;    Heritage sites;    Historic centres;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/8/082069/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/8/082069

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Cáceres has been a World Heritage Site since 1986 and one of its most emblematic monuments is the Co-Cathedral Church of Santa María which is located within the walled city of Cáceres in the heart of its historic centre. The building was erected between the 15th and 16th centuries over an earlier Mudejar building. Although there are several studies about the church from a historical and architectural point of view, none of them have been dedicated to its pavement which contains one of the most important tombstone mosaics in Spain. It is a checkerboard of tombs executed progressively from XV century that occupies the totality of the three church naves from the start to the chevet. The present study initiates a precise dimensional analysis of tombstones paving the floor of the Co-cathedral Church of Santa María in Cáceres to catalogue them, establish the orientation of the dead buried under its granitic pavement and concretizing certain aspects of the architectural evolution of the temple. To carry out this study, advanced methods of photogrammetry and digitalization have been used in order to be precised and able to rebuild the lost and crucial information. When we mention the position, we do not refer only to the topographical one, interesting in itself by the relation that always existed between closeness to the altar and fortune, but also to the position of the person in the society that gave him burial. This social positon can be deduced by the artistic dimension of the shield carved on its tomb placed in one of the most complete heraldic groups of the Spanish Renaissance.