Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval y Arraita
Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval y Arraita | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | September 23, 1647 Spain |
| Died | 1700, New Kingdom of Granada |
| Nationality |  Spain |
| Spouse | María Josefa Cortés de Mesa Maldonado |
| Children | Úrsula de Vergara Azcárate Gómez de Sandoval y Mesa |
| Parent | Count of Lerma Juan Gómez de Sandoval & Maria Goméz de Arratia |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Spanish Empire |
| Branch/service | Army |
| Rank | Sergeant Major |
Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval y Arratia was a sergeant major of the Spanish Royal Army during the 17th-century. Gómez commissioned the Chapel of the Tabernacle (Capilla del Sagrario) of Bogotá, The chapel was built between 1660 and 1700 during the reign of Philip the fourth of Spain.[1] It predates the Primatial Cathedral by well over 100 years, and Gómez de Sandoval oversaw the entire project. He died shortly after it was consecrated in 1700.[2]
The Chapel of the Tabernacle (Capilla del Sagrario) is an independent building connected to the Cathedral of Bogotá. It is located on Plaza de Bolívar in La Candelaria.
Biography
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He was the son of D. Juan González de Sandoval, Governor of the State of the Admiral of Castilla in Sicily, and Guest of the Infante Cardenal D. Fernando.[3]
The sergeant major Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval, a native of the town and court of Madrid, made a career in Bogotá, where he began to build the Sagrario chapel in 1656. The sumptuousness with which the building was built, made possible by a great economic waste, led to the glowing praise of locals and strangers. Sandoval thus became a true hero within the society of Santa Fe.[4]
There one of the most representative collections of the work of the Santa Fe painter Gregorio Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos, who made a large number of works for the ornamentation of the temple, is preserved.[5] He made more than fifty paintings to decorate the chapel (of which thirty-six are preserved), commissioned by Gómez de Sandoval. Among them stand out: The Evangelists; The Last Supper (with 25 larger-than-life figures); Biblical scenes; The mystical betrothal of Saint Catherine, etc.[6]
On August 15, 1819, the army headed by the liberator Simón Bolívar was received in the Chapel of the Tabernacle with the singing of the Te Deum and a solemn mass in gratitude for the victory in the Battle of Boyacá.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Arrieta, Guillermo Rojas y (1998). History of the Bishops of Panama: (1514 to 1929).
- ^ nomadicniko (2019-06-10). "Chapel of the Tabernacle (Bogotá, Colombia)". Nomadic Niko. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
- ^ Robles, Luis Ballesteros; Ayuntamiento, Madrid (Spain) (1912). Diccionario biográfico matritense (in Spanish). Imprenta municipal.
- ^ Contreras-Guerrero, Adrián (2022). De Madrid al cielo ¿pasando por la Nueva Granada¿. Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval cumple la profecía y erige la capilla del Sagrario de Bogotá (in Spanish). Publicaciones Enredars / Andavira Editora. ISBN 978-84-126058-7-7.
- ^ Cuéllar Jiménez, Gumersindo (1930). "Capilla del Sagrario. Cuadro de Vásquez" (in Spanish).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Bogotá se embellece para la visita papal". Arquidiócesis de Bogotá (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-13.
- ^ "Capilla del Sagrario de la Catedral – Bogotá Colombia". Colombia (in Spanish). 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2023-06-13.