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The monastery has two cloisters with enclosures and a church.
The high walls show buttresses and pointed windows, characteristic
of the Gothic style.
The church, inaugurated in 1499, was built
in the Isabelline style. Its exterior shows a geometrical
design, crowned by fleches and pinnacles set on the buttresses.
Access to the temple is via a portico that includes a Gothic
doorway. Its tympanum represents the Virgin of Miraflores.
The interior consists of a single nave divided into three
sections, with a magnificent ribbed vaulting. The chancel,
with a polygonal floor plan, is slightly wider than the
rest of the temple. The elaborated ribs on its vaults set
off the beauty of the chancel. The original stained glass
panels were brought from Flanders in 1484, but were restored
in 1657.
The choir stalls, from 1558, are a remarkable
example of Renaissance art, with reliefs on the back panels,
representing saints and symbolic figures. A wall shows small
Baroque retables, presided by the extraordinary painting
of The Announcement, created by Pedro Berruguete around
1500. Next to it is the choir of the Carthusian fathers,
with richly elaborated Gothic stalls, executed between 1486
and 1489.
The chancel of the church contains works
of art of extraordinay artistic merits, such as: the Altarpiece,
the work of Gil de Siloé, dated between 1496 and
1499. Diego de la Cruz contributed to the polychromy of
the retable. In front of it is the mausoleum of Don Juan
II and Doña Isabel of Portugal, also executed by
Gil de Siloé between 1489 and 1493. The alabaster
mausoleum is in the form of an 8-pointed star and has vertical
walls. It contains many architectural elements and statues.
The interior of the monastery contains other
artistic treasures, such as a triptych of the Crucifixion
-a Flemish work from the late 15 C-; a beautiful chalice
of golden silver, a gift from Juan II, with enamelled royal
arms and embossings; a remarkable panel of the Ecce Homo
by Juan de Flandes; and another of Santa Lucía.
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