Santa Isabel Street, "writes Peter repid 1 - is one of the most popular streets of Madrid and the broadest between traditional slums of the Court. Until the late sixteenth century was called by Antonio Perez, for having in her home country renowned secretary of Felipe II whose figure we studied recently in another of our blogs. Of irregular shape and steep slope keeps still, despite the loss of traditional buildings as the hospital of San Juan de Dios 2 , demolished in the late nineteenth century, the Ophthalmic Institute 3 (founded by Mrs. Mary Victoria of Savoy, wife of Amadeo I), the Chapel of Our Lady of Goal 4 , and changing other applications, such as Fernán Nuñez Palace (now headquarters of the English Railway Foundation) the Faculty of Medicine, San Carlos (home of the College of Physicians and the National Institute of Public Administration) and General Hospital (Museum Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia), a popular air, provincial and mestizo, which takes us back to the old historic Madrid.
to Santa Isabel Street, numbers 46 and 48, have fled in January morning, intending to visit the monastery church, building that is open during the Christmas season because of the exposure of a nativity scene (in other periods is only possible to visit during services). Following
custom shows and before starting the visit have garnered some background on the history of this temple .
History
We have already indicated that in what is now Santa Isabel Street, then on the outskirts of Madrid, the recreation property was called the "Box " owned by Antonio Pérez del Hierro (1540-1611) " where the secretary of the biggest monarchy who saw the orbs amuse his leisure and his tastes " 5 . When Antonio Perez coltsfoot fled to escape the royal wrath, assets and properties were confiscated for the benefit of the Crown. Part of the land was used to install the College of Santa Isabel, and the remainder were, for the moment, without application. Antonio weather Perez seems that more debris are just a stone columns in the courtyard of the convent .
The College of St. Elizabeth, "will speak first of being older than the monastery was founded by Philip II in 1595 as a retreat house to provide support and education to underprivileged children. Put him the name of Santa Isabel in invocation to the Holy Queen of Hungary and in memory of his beloved daughter, her darling, the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Netherlands. Think it was in times of his son and successor, Philip III, when this institution was exclusively devoted to girls' school 6 and in 1738 it adopted the new constitutions in which it was established that the orphan be preferred among the daughters of employees of the Royal Family, the Army and the State, but also admitted pensioners. The school was of royal patronage and the filling of vacancies, both teachers and students, it was a proposal by the Patriarch of the Indies.
Currently and since 1876, the Real Colegio de Santa Isabel - La Asunción is governed by the Sisters of the Assumption is a Catholic and private schools.
The foundation of the monastery is little more modern than the start of the school and one of the most curious and interesting legends Madrid are going to tell the story transcribing that she does Ricardo Sepulveda in his book " Madrid Old "
"I was in the sixteenth century, his house in the Rue du Prince, who was one of the most sumptuous and visited then, Ms Prudence Grilo , daughter of a wealthy banker, one of the goddesses, and now Olympus is said that court talc rising. Frequented his house and most distinguished gentlemen alechugados, the more invincible philanderers the finest swords, the most arrogant capes. All sought the hand of the wealthy heiress, as flies seek the honey, but the disdainful lady had set his mind on a handsome young man, who wanted to join in holy loop and whether he was postponing the time desired, was not without his love of luxury, or deprive compete with the great beauties of the court, who always eclipsed the graces of his face, his body swaying and splendor of their costumes.
Lover, both desperate whim, judged from that took a dangerous and extreme resolution. Philip II was preparing his famous armada, and offered to go in her class to volunteer. The chronicles that separated the two lovers, the knight said to the lady, wondered how would you hear .- "For these apricots, (pointing to those who had hung in the room), and if I die, Adam of them , I will move my desk drawers, where the sign last draw the curtains of your bed. " Prudence
take a joke those ominous warnings. A few days had forgotten his lover, and he gave back to his usual distractions. But one night, just lie down and just had been transposed, when it seemed that moved the curtains of the room, jumped over the bed to make sure, and nothing noted, wanted to go back to bed, and strength failed him, because looking involuntarily the drawer, he saw it moving. He wanted to scream and could not: he went to bed vacillating and his arrival drew back the curtains alone. Then she fainted, and was deathly ill a long time. During the public were in Madrid, the news brought to El Escorial, an email, regarding the loss of the army and the death of the lover of Ms Prudence, who was in the fleet, official employment. Decidiose Then the lady to leave the world, and founded the convent of Santa Isabel, where he was professed in 1589.
" If non e vero, e ben trovato ." But the story does not end here, but continues. The above Ms Prudence donated to it in all its assets to Alonso de Orozco (1500-1591), preacher of Philip II, "the holy San Felipe, founded the convent whose full name was " of the Visitation of Our Lady to St. Elizabeth ", abbreviated from Visitation in the street of the same name (now called Manuel Fernández y González), the December 24, 1589. The first four nuns who lived at the close of this new convent came, according to chronicles of the monastery of Santa María de Gracia de Avila, the first prioress Juana Velázquez (1589).
It happened twenty years later, as in the Dumas novel, going to visit the convent, of Queen Margaret of Austria, wife of Philip III heard "rumor Music profane." Astonished, he asked where the nuns could come much dissipation and the neighbor replied that it was "Corral de la Pacheca" or "Prince", as it was called. The queen, realizing the inappropriateness of the situation that the nuns were forced to such a neighborhood, the year 1610 moved to the cottage which was Antonio Perez, giving the community new constitution as it was religious make Away From the roads Augustinian direction of San Felipe el Real to bring them under greater chaplain of the Royal House 7 .
In the next reign, that of Felipe IV was started and finish the construction of the factory of the convent (1639-1665), according to plans of the architect Juan Gómez de Mora (1586-1648) in collaboration with Jerome Lazarus Goiti (1639-1648), topped by the son of this, named Pedro. Previously, T thinks so Ormo 8, may any previous works "under the box" designs under Francisco de Mora, by the Carmelite friar Alberto de la Madre de Dios (1575-1635) .
In the eighteenth century there was a fire and had to be remodeling, " luxurious and fresh galleries Antonio González Velazquez "rededicate the temple in 1766, as recounted an inscription stone wall inscribed in the entrance hall to the church.
The French occupied it in 1810, expelling the nuns did not return until 1816. The convent was not affected by the confiscation, because of real protection. In 1876 the site was expanded with the construction of a house for the rector and two chaplains and free schools in a separate building, interventions by the chief architect of Palacio José Segundo de Lema. In 1879 plots that there was a comprehensive reform by the architect Enrique Segarra Repullés 9. in 1890 was about to disappear threatened with destruction by the bylaws .
During the civil war, the convent and church were burned lost her many 10 art, including frescoes, a library and archive, but it was rebuilt in 1941 and 1946 by the Directorate General of Regions Devastated and Repairs. In 1964 there was a partial reform and reconstruction designed by José del Río and directed by Ramon Andrada.
custom shows and before starting the visit have garnered some background on the history of this temple .
History
We have already indicated that in what is now Santa Isabel Street, then on the outskirts of Madrid, the recreation property was called the "Box " owned by Antonio Pérez del Hierro (1540-1611) " where the secretary of the biggest monarchy who saw the orbs amuse his leisure and his tastes " 5 . When Antonio Perez coltsfoot fled to escape the royal wrath, assets and properties were confiscated for the benefit of the Crown. Part of the land was used to install the College of Santa Isabel, and the remainder were, for the moment, without application. Antonio weather Perez seems that more debris are just a stone columns in the courtyard of the convent . The College of St. Elizabeth, "will speak first of being older than the monastery was founded by Philip II in 1595 as a retreat house to provide support and education to underprivileged children. Put him the name of Santa Isabel in invocation to the Holy Queen of Hungary and in memory of his beloved daughter, her darling, the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Netherlands. Think it was in times of his son and successor, Philip III, when this institution was exclusively devoted to girls' school 6 and in 1738 it adopted the new constitutions in which it was established that the orphan be preferred among the daughters of employees of the Royal Family, the Army and the State, but also admitted pensioners. The school was of royal patronage and the filling of vacancies, both teachers and students, it was a proposal by the Patriarch of the Indies.
Currently and since 1876, the Real Colegio de Santa Isabel - La Asunción is governed by the Sisters of the Assumption is a Catholic and private schools.
The foundation of the monastery is little more modern than the start of the school and one of the most curious and interesting legends Madrid are going to tell the story transcribing that she does Ricardo Sepulveda in his book " Madrid Old "
"I was in the sixteenth century, his house in the Rue du Prince, who was one of the most sumptuous and visited then, Ms Prudence Grilo , daughter of a wealthy banker, one of the goddesses, and now Olympus is said that court talc rising. Frequented his house and most distinguished gentlemen alechugados, the more invincible philanderers the finest swords, the most arrogant capes. All sought the hand of the wealthy heiress, as flies seek the honey, but the disdainful lady had set his mind on a handsome young man, who wanted to join in holy loop and whether he was postponing the time desired, was not without his love of luxury, or deprive compete with the great beauties of the court, who always eclipsed the graces of his face, his body swaying and splendor of their costumes.
Lover, both desperate whim, judged from that took a dangerous and extreme resolution. Philip II was preparing his famous armada, and offered to go in her class to volunteer. The chronicles that separated the two lovers, the knight said to the lady, wondered how would you hear .- "For these apricots, (pointing to those who had hung in the room), and if I die, Adam of them , I will move my desk drawers, where the sign last draw the curtains of your bed. " Prudence
take a joke those ominous warnings. A few days had forgotten his lover, and he gave back to his usual distractions. But one night, just lie down and just had been transposed, when it seemed that moved the curtains of the room, jumped over the bed to make sure, and nothing noted, wanted to go back to bed, and strength failed him, because looking involuntarily the drawer, he saw it moving. He wanted to scream and could not: he went to bed vacillating and his arrival drew back the curtains alone. Then she fainted, and was deathly ill a long time. During the public were in Madrid, the news brought to El Escorial, an email, regarding the loss of the army and the death of the lover of Ms Prudence, who was in the fleet, official employment. Decidiose Then the lady to leave the world, and founded the convent of Santa Isabel, where he was professed in 1589.
" If non e vero, e ben trovato ." But the story does not end here, but continues. The above Ms Prudence donated to it in all its assets to Alonso de Orozco (1500-1591), preacher of Philip II, "the holy San Felipe, founded the convent whose full name was " of the Visitation of Our Lady to St. Elizabeth ", abbreviated from Visitation in the street of the same name (now called Manuel Fernández y González), the December 24, 1589. The first four nuns who lived at the close of this new convent came, according to chronicles of the monastery of Santa María de Gracia de Avila, the first prioress Juana Velázquez (1589).
It happened twenty years later, as in the Dumas novel, going to visit the convent, of Queen Margaret of Austria, wife of Philip III heard "rumor Music profane." Astonished, he asked where the nuns could come much dissipation and the neighbor replied that it was "Corral de la Pacheca" or "Prince", as it was called. The queen, realizing the inappropriateness of the situation that the nuns were forced to such a neighborhood, the year 1610 moved to the cottage which was Antonio Perez, giving the community new constitution as it was religious make Away From the roads Augustinian direction of San Felipe el Real to bring them under greater chaplain of the Royal House 7 . In the next reign, that of Felipe IV was started and finish the construction of the factory of the convent (1639-1665), according to plans of the architect Juan Gómez de Mora (1586-1648) in collaboration with Jerome Lazarus Goiti (1639-1648), topped by the son of this, named Pedro. Previously, T thinks so Ormo 8, may any previous works "under the box" designs under Francisco de Mora, by the Carmelite friar Alberto de la Madre de Dios (1575-1635) .
In the eighteenth century there was a fire and had to be remodeling, " luxurious and fresh galleries Antonio González Velazquez "rededicate the temple in 1766, as recounted an inscription stone wall inscribed in the entrance hall to the church.
The French occupied it in 1810, expelling the nuns did not return until 1816. The convent was not affected by the confiscation, because of real protection. In 1876 the site was expanded with the construction of a house for the rector and two chaplains and free schools in a separate building, interventions by the chief architect of Palacio José Segundo de Lema. In 1879 plots that there was a comprehensive reform by the architect Enrique Segarra Repullés 9. in 1890 was about to disappear threatened with destruction by the bylaws .
During the civil war, the convent and church were burned lost her many 10 art, including frescoes, a library and archive, but it was rebuilt in 1941 and 1946 by the Directorate General of Regions Devastated and Repairs. In 1964 there was a partial reform and reconstruction designed by José del Río and directed by Ramon Andrada.
In 1990 there was an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and art objects kept in the community, which I find by reading an article by Antonio Bonet Correa, published in the newspaper ABC (see note new)
Currently the monastery belongs to the National Heritage "Considered together Monastery, garden, church and school " is declared of cultural interest category monument (Royal Decree 602/1995 of 7 April)
Exterior
Exterior
Outside the monastery is a building of vast dimensions, with walls of Toledo in the center gear is inserted qu facade is simple, geometric and somewhat dry. It consists of a vertical rectangle, with three-door entrance lintels, more central than the side, with real shield up between horizontal fascias, large window and pediment with oculus high and cross. From the street you can see the exterior of the dome " one of the most beautiful Baroque Madrid Rotunda, according to Bonet Correa
Interior
The interior cross plan America, with the only ship of two very short runs and cruising octagonal. Cajeadas pilasters of the Tuscan order and very sober paired corbels at the top. This is based on very broad chamfered pillars so that the scallops are shaped like trapezoids, with remarkable ease and grandeur of the dome. In its lower part appear recessed inward leaving a hole for forming chapels. Full light body into the drum of the dome and lantern making it easier to light. flat head.
destruction before 1936, kept inside the temple remarkable works of art, especially painting Ricci, Claudio Coello ("San Felipe "), Cherry (" Visitation "," Santo Tomas de Villanueva "San Nicolas de Tolentino "), Palomino, Agüero ... These works are described in other guides Tormo and old, but have unfortunately lost, no sense, AOur trial, repeating his description. If you have to make a comment referring to the painting of the altar, because it deals with a character recently studied by us, Don Juan José of Austria, the bastard regions.
Those who have read the entry dedicated to this important figure in the reign of the last Habsburg, remember that during his stay in Naples, Don Juan José seduced the daughter (or niece) established there the famous painter, José de Ribera, "the Españoleto "born of a daughter who loves then professed as a nun in the convent of the Barefoot Royals, with the name of Sister Margaret of the Cross. Well, in the altarpiece of the church of the convent of Santa Isabel, was a picture of the Immaculate Conception, the work of Ribera, which say that the artist took his daughter as a model for the painting of the Virgin. No nuns seemed well suited to this representation and Claudio Coello and instructed to redo the picture, changing the other, the head of the Virgin .
From the above, nothing remains but to clothe the naked inside the temple have been placed under the choir, two paintings of Madrid, Antonio Arias "San Pablo hermit San Antonio Abad "and" St. Augustine with his mother Santa Monica. "
The present altarpiece, in whose attic, of course, is a reproduction of the painting, it is of painted wood, the seventeenth century, and, apparently, comes from the Cathedral Pamplona. To the right and left of the sanctuary, on the wall are two plaques that resemble, respectively, the foundation and consecration of you 
MPLO and the fourth centenary of the presence here of the Augustinian Recollect, whose choir is under found in the Gospel side (left of the beholder). In front of the chancel there are two tombstones equal, if not readable, covering the graves of two patriarchs of the Indies, Sentmenat Antonino died in Aranjuez in 1806 and James Cardona et Tur, who died in 1923 11.
In the crossing have placed two paintings which were formerly in the cloister, where there should be more interesting things 12, a "Jeudiel Archangel" by Vicente Carducho and "Immaculate " of Maella.
Before leaving this street, which will surely be back soon, let's take a memory the romantic figure of Joseph of Espronceda (1808-1842) linked to this street, because at 13, (now 17) " in his ground floor of the left " Mancha Teresa died of tuberculosis, his muse and lover a so fickle, and there, hanging from the bars of the gate, the poet spent the night, watching from the street the wake of that beautiful young woman who dedicated his famous "Canto a Teresa , one of the largest ( and long) love elegies in the English language. .
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
January, 2011 ( last update in February 2011 )
MPLO and the fourth centenary of the presence here of the Augustinian Recollect, whose choir is under found in the Gospel side (left of the beholder). In front of the chancel there are two tombstones equal, if not readable, covering the graves of two patriarchs of the Indies, Sentmenat Antonino died in Aranjuez in 1806 and James Cardona et Tur, who died in 1923 11. In the crossing have placed two paintings which were formerly in the cloister, where there should be more interesting things 12, a "Jeudiel Archangel" by Vicente Carducho and "Immaculate " of Maella.
Before leaving this street, which will surely be back soon, let's take a memory the romantic figure of Joseph of Espronceda (1808-1842) linked to this street, because at 13, (now 17) " in his ground floor of the left " Mancha Teresa died of tuberculosis, his muse and lover a so fickle, and there, hanging from the bars of the gate, the poet spent the night, watching from the street the wake of that beautiful young woman who dedicated his famous "Canto a Teresa , one of the largest ( and long) love elegies in the English language. . © Manuel Martínez Bargueño
January, 2011 ( last update in February 2011 )
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NOTES 1. Pedro de repid. " The streets of Madrid." Aguado Afrodidio SA, Fourth Edition. Madrid, 1981 p. 686.
2. Hospital San Juan de Dios, run by the Hospitaller Order, was founded in 1552 by Venerable Anthony Martin and was specialized in venereal diseases and infectious diseases. With the seizure of Mendizábal step depend on the provincial and Charity Hospital after provincial. In 1897 it moved to its present location on the streets of Ibiza.
3. Ophthalmic Institute was founded on May 30, 1872 being installed consultation and nursing in the building of College Girls Loreto was at Atocha Street and demolished it passed into the street of Santa Isabel n º 3 until in 1903 opened the new building from the class of Zurbano and General Arrando (White and Black, January 18, 1914 .)
4. Wrought by the Marquis de la Solana in 1731 to an image that was in the doorway of her house (Mesonero Romans. " Manual Madrid. Description of the Court and Villa .
5. Pedro de repid . op.cit. p. 687.
6. Ricardo Sepúlveda writes that " The school was intended for the orphans of officers and soldiers killed in the wars in Flanders " (Ricardo Sepúlveda. " old Madrid. Chronicles, warnings, customs, legends and descriptions of the Town and Court in past centuries." Madrid, 1888 p. 275 (facsimile edition Maxtor editorial. Valladolid, 2008).
7. From then until the advent of the Second Republic (1931) the Augustinian Recollect Santa Isabel have been under the jurisdiction of the pro-palace chaplain, a prelate who held the honorary title of Patriarch of the West Indies (Comella Beatriz Gutierrez " The palatal ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Royal Monastery of Santa Isabel de Madrid, during the first third of the twentieth century, according to the Book of Professions ". Journal Escorial Institute of Historic and Artistic Research 20 (2004) (available online).
8. Elías Tormo " Churches Old Madrid." Reissue of the two issues published in 1937. Institute of Spain, 1972 p.223.
9. These data are taken from page http://www. esmadrid.com /
10. It seems that all is not lost, because the nuns were allowed, immediately after the civil war, to sell works of art saved from the burning. Others, such as a statue of St. Augustine seventeenth century were restored. In 1952, Count Casal inventoried 567 pieces: 173 paintings, 53 sculptures, 237 liturgical vestments, 53 outstanding pieces of jewelry, 42 shrines over some furniture and ceramics (Beatriz Comella " Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer in the Royal Patronage of Santa Isabel de Madrid (1931 - 1945). Institute of History San José María Escrivá de Balaguer. Ediciones Rialp. Madrid 2010 (partial consultation available online).
NOTES 1. Pedro de repid. " The streets of Madrid." Aguado Afrodidio SA, Fourth Edition. Madrid, 1981 p. 686.
2. Hospital San Juan de Dios, run by the Hospitaller Order, was founded in 1552 by Venerable Anthony Martin and was specialized in venereal diseases and infectious diseases. With the seizure of Mendizábal step depend on the provincial and Charity Hospital after provincial. In 1897 it moved to its present location on the streets of Ibiza.
3. Ophthalmic Institute was founded on May 30, 1872 being installed consultation and nursing in the building of College Girls Loreto was at Atocha Street and demolished it passed into the street of Santa Isabel n º 3 until in 1903 opened the new building from the class of Zurbano and General Arrando (White and Black, January 18, 1914 .)
4. Wrought by the Marquis de la Solana in 1731 to an image that was in the doorway of her house (Mesonero Romans. " Manual Madrid. Description of the Court and Villa .
5. Pedro de repid . op.cit. p. 687.
6. Ricardo Sepúlveda writes that " The school was intended for the orphans of officers and soldiers killed in the wars in Flanders " (Ricardo Sepúlveda. " old Madrid. Chronicles, warnings, customs, legends and descriptions of the Town and Court in past centuries." Madrid, 1888 p. 275 (facsimile edition Maxtor editorial. Valladolid, 2008).
7. From then until the advent of the Second Republic (1931) the Augustinian Recollect Santa Isabel have been under the jurisdiction of the pro-palace chaplain, a prelate who held the honorary title of Patriarch of the West Indies (Comella Beatriz Gutierrez " The palatal ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Royal Monastery of Santa Isabel de Madrid, during the first third of the twentieth century, according to the Book of Professions ". Journal Escorial Institute of Historic and Artistic Research 20 (2004) (available online).
8. Elías Tormo " Churches Old Madrid." Reissue of the two issues published in 1937. Institute of Spain, 1972 p.223.
9. These data are taken from page http://www. esmadrid.com /
10. It seems that all is not lost, because the nuns were allowed, immediately after the civil war, to sell works of art saved from the burning. Others, such as a statue of St. Augustine seventeenth century were restored. In 1952, Count Casal inventoried 567 pieces: 173 paintings, 53 sculptures, 237 liturgical vestments, 53 outstanding pieces of jewelry, 42 shrines over some furniture and ceramics (Beatriz Comella " Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer in the Royal Patronage of Santa Isabel de Madrid (1931 - 1945). Institute of History San José María Escrivá de Balaguer. Ediciones Rialp. Madrid 2010 (partial consultation available online).
Note new . Antonio Bonet Correa. "Madrid hidden." 01/29/1990 ABC
11. In this last mentioned Pedro de repid and says he died on January 3, 1923 in Palace of Good Success in Princess Street.
12. Bonet Correa, in the ABC article, cited above, accounts, among the paintings exhibited in 1990, five Immaculate, Joseph Antolínez, Antonio de Pereda, Antonio Palomino Acisclo and Mariano Salvador Maella (the latter is exposed), a Santa Rosa Lima, Juan Carreño de Miranda and especially a painting, a rare iconography, representing the Prioress Sister Ana de Santa Ines, lying. All this without sculptures, liturgical clothing and jewelry.
11. In this last mentioned Pedro de repid and says he died on January 3, 1923 in Palace of Good Success in Princess Street.
12. Bonet Correa, in the ABC article, cited above, accounts, among the paintings exhibited in 1990, five Immaculate, Joseph Antolínez, Antonio de Pereda, Antonio Palomino Acisclo and Mariano Salvador Maella (the latter is exposed), a Santa Rosa Lima, Juan Carreño de Miranda and especially a painting, a rare iconography, representing the Prioress Sister Ana de Santa Ines, lying. All this without sculptures, liturgical clothing and jewelry.
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