EL CONVENT DE SANT DOMINGO D’INCA (MALLORCA). ARQUITECTURA I CERIMONIAL FESTIU ENTRE ELS SEGLES XVII I XVIII

Abstract

The convent of Santo Domingo of Inca is recognized as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC). Despite the contemporary transformations it has undergone and the cultural use it maintains today, the image it projects continues to reflect its origin as a Dominican Foundation (1604-1835). Until now, very little was known about the initial configuration and evolution of the convent complex. This study documents the first buildings erected at the beginning of the 17th century and reconstructs their development with unpublished data from the original Dominican archive, largely lost. It provides a description of the extensive ceremonial carried out for the laying of the foundation stone of the current temple, which included folkloric elements that were not known in the town of Inca. All of this reflects the expansion of religious orders during the modern age and the context of the counter-Reformation Baroque. In addition, the evolution of the convent in the eighteenth century is explained, its transformation after the confiscation, the rehabilitation that turned it into the cultural center that it is today, and a stylistic interpretation of its fundamental elements is made.