Domingo’s de andrade agreement excelencias, antigüedad y nobleza de la arquitectura (1695) and the tratadística of your time.

Abstract

Domingo de Andrade, chief architect of Santiago de Compostela’s Cathedral between 1677 and 1710, was de foremost artistical personality of his generation in Galicia. He also became a new kind of artist, capable of combining the practise of his art in the most brilliant way with the elaboration of theoretical approaches to it. This paper analyzes the origin of his treatise “Excelencias, Antigüedad y Nobleza de la Arquitectura” conceptual structure, as well as its relations with the previous and contemporary apologetical literature.