Tracerías olvidadas: el claustro gótico de Santa María de Sasamón

Abstract

The few authors who have devoted their attention to the cloister of the former collegiate church of Santa María de Sasamón (Burgos) have dated it to the period between the late 15th and early 16th centuries and have attributed its construction to Juan de Colonia. In these pages I will attempt to demonstrate that work on this building began many years before the German architect’s arrival on the Iberian Peninsula and that its current appearance is the result of two different building campaigns. The aim in doing so is to identify a cloister of the purest Rayonnant style as part of the history of Spanish Gothic architecture.