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The '''Colegio de San Gregorio''' is a Isabelline style building located in the city of [[Valladolid]], in [[Castile and León]], [[Spain]], currently housing the [[National Museum of Sculpture (Valladolid)|Museo Nacional de Escultura]] museum. It is one of the best examples of the architectonical style known as [[Isabelline style|Isabelline]], which is the characteristic architectural style of the [[Castile]] during the [[Catholic Monarchs]]'s reign (late-15th to early-16th centuries). |
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In particular its coutyard and its facade are remarkable for its refined decoration, elegant proportions and an ostensible symbology of power. It was founded as a teaching institution. Aimed at College of Theology for [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friars, it has acquired a doctrinal authority and acted as a spiritual and political hotbed in the [[Spanish Renaissance|Renaissance]] and [[Spanish Baroque|Baroque]] of the Central region of Spain. |
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Revision as of 22:52, 20 September 2016
The Colegio de San Gregorio is a Isabelline style building located in the city of Valladolid, in Castile and León, Spain, currently housing the Museo Nacional de Escultura museum. It is one of the best examples of the architectonical style known as Isabelline, which is the characteristic architectural style of the Castile during the Catholic Monarchs's reign (late-15th to early-16th centuries).
In particular its coutyard and its facade are remarkable for its refined decoration, elegant proportions and an ostensible symbology of power. It was founded as a teaching institution. Aimed at College of Theology for Dominican friars, it has acquired a doctrinal authority and acted as a spiritual and political hotbed in the Renaissance and Baroque of the Central region of Spain.
History
In 1577 due to the beneficence of Spaniard Juan Solano, O.P., former bishop of Cusco, Peru, The College of San Gregorio served as a model for the transformation of the Dominican studium at Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome into the College of St. Thomas, forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.[1]
The Valladolid debate (1550–1551) concerned the treatment of natives of the New World. It consisted of two opposing views about the colonization of the Americas. Dominican friar and Bishop of Chiapas Bartolomé de las Casas argued that the Amerindians were free men in the natural order and deserved the same treatment as others, according to Catholic theology. Opposing him was scholar Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, who insisted that "in order to uproot crimes that offend nature" the Indians should be punished and therefore reducing them to slavery or serfdom was in accordance with Catholic theology and natural law. This is the origin of modern human rights theories.
It now holds the National Museum of Sculpture, with many pieces of the times of the Counter-Reformation.
Gallery
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See also
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Notes
- ^ Carlo Longo O.P., La formazione integrale domenicana al servizio della Chiesa e della società, Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 1996, "J. Solano O.P. (1505 ca.-1580) e la fondazione del "collegium S, Thomae de Urbe (1577)": "Si andava allora imponendo come modello di formazione teologica il progetto al quale aveva dato inizio alla fine del secolo precedente il vescovo domenicano spagnolo Alonoso de Burgos (+1499), il quale, a partire dal 1487 ed effettivamente dal 1496, a Valladolid aveva fondato il Collegio di San Gregorio, redigendone statuti che, integrati successivamente, sarebbero divenuti modello di una nuova forma di esperienza formativa." http://books.google.com/books?id=gMW2uqe2MCwC&pg=PA156#v=onepage&q&f=false Accessed 21 April 2011