Un modelo romano para la arquitectura eclesiástica española del siglo XVIII: la planta claustral en Valencia

Abstract

In the first half of the 18th century a series of proposals for the renewal of ecclesiastical typology were put forward in Valencia and its sphere of influence. The knowledge of Roman precedents enabled the construction of churches with large side naves covered with a succession of domes to create what was known as the cloister or criptocolateral (meaning a central nave with smaller side naves) plan. This article looks at the churches that were built in line with this typology and at the architects who designed them and the graphic sources to which they referred.