The main chapel and the sacristy of the convent church of La Merced de Baza

Abstract

The main chapel and the sacristy of the church of La Merced de Baza, remarkable works of the conventual architecture of south-east Spain, follow the most usual solution in the stonework constructions of the XVI century in the north of the Kingdom of Granada, a synthesis between modern and ancient, a symbiosis between Renaissance architecture and the last throes of the Gothic. These buildings tell us about the importance of the architectural production of the five hundred in the granadian highlands and the prominent role of Rodrigo de Gibaja, and other stonemasons, at the Andalusian level.