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# Latino_Noticias
Anas El Convent is a monastic complex belonging to the female branch of the Order of Dominica, located in the city of Murcia (Murcia, Spain), specifically in the square Santa Ana The convent has its origins in the fifteenth century, although the building can be seen today dates from the eighteenth century.
is one of the most representative Baroque Murcia In the Plaza de Santa Ana is located the church and the convent of the same name. Founded in 1490, although the bulk of the factory are made from the eighteenth century, so it is baroque, having been restored to the entire set. is a complex formed by the monastery and the church body, which are articulated in an "L" forming the closed side of the square of the convent of Santa Ana Baroque preserved only in original facade of brick and hollow brick arches. The church has its main entrance on the side of the Gospel, and their facades and walls are of similar brick. The church has a Latin cross that open the side chapels, has a cruising covered dome and a large rectangular sanctuary with the altar of Ganga and imagery Ripoll of Salzillo. Stresses on the right side of the crossing, a cover that serves low choir, decorated with pyramids and balls, another choir loft at the foot. whole church is covered with linear decoration ribbons and stylized plant forms, while the spandrels of the cruise are occupied by statues of Dominican saints. The front of the church, XVII century, consists of the base body with paired Corinthian pilasters on individual pedestals, including opening an arch, entablature crowning all thick in the center of which there is an angel with the shield of the Dominican. The second body is an attic whose center is a shrine to St. Anne and the Virgin Girl, flanked by finely under a curved pediment, on either side scrolls to close the set. The nave of Santa Tecla, XVII century baroque work, consists of a first tranche covered oval dome, and three perpendicular sections covered by cross vaults, separated by arches on a kind of simple pilasters buttresses that have detached.
On the same site of the convent today, outside the city in the old suburb of Arrixaca, was founded by an Augustinian nunnery in 1398, also under the patronage of Santa Ana
emgargo Without the arrival of the Dominican nuns at Murcia occurred in 1490, from Jaén, sponsored by the Dean of the Cathedral Martí n Selva. It was he who donated the land they now occupied, making his patron.
Despite its origins in the fifteenth century, the current building is the third that had the congregation. It was early eighteenth century, between 1728 and 1738, when he made the final building works that we can see, authored by Fray Antonio de San Jose Toribio Martínez de la Vega.
The church of the convent, visited only part of the whole, is simple and functional structures, which explains the success of the model, repeated in other churches in the city, as defined in the seventeenth century Church of San Miguel. Enclosed in a rectangular perimeter, the church is conceived as a Latin cross with a great ship, accompanied on his tour of other narrower side.
be seen in standard hierarchical space that favors the great nave and transept, whose height allowed overlap wide arc to open the aisles and galleries. But what really stars in the elevations of the wall base is an elegant articulation of a giant order of pilasters. The central section of the cruise is magnified by a high dome on scallops.
However, the main baroque interior decoration comes, of great beauty and finesse. Highlight the work of plaster, reserved especially for catching capitals of the pilasters, carved in 1738 by the sculptor José Ganga Ripoll, who also wrote the altarpiece, which explains the repetition of motifs and ornaments (like the shield of the Order Dominica). He also made the cover stone of the sides of the chapel.
Another characteristic element of the church of Anas decoration is outlined in blue ribbons and stylized plant forms describing curved rhythms , a reverse and intertwined adorn the interiors of the pillars, arches and friezes and we stress the lines or edges of the vaults.
The church retains many seventeenth-century altar from the old convent. Interesting examples of the altarpiece of the first half of the century, characterized by compositional balance between vertical and horizontal lines, creating a series of spaces where you insert the painting and sculpture and the inclusion of pinnacles , ball, fluted columns and scrolls. This is the altarpiece of San Juan Evangelista and San Juan Bautista , withdrawn from family workshops Estanguet.
Another larger altarpiece, also of the seventeenth century, is located on the cruise ship, it was the former altarpiece of the earlier church, known as altarpiece of San Miguel Archangel dedicated to the Virgen del Rosario. Also due to the Estanguet, while the sculptures are attributed Cristobal de Salazar.
Already in the eighteenth century we must mention the current altarpiece Ganga Ripoll, 1738, to disobey the wishes of the Dominican Sisters commissioned work Francis sculpture housed. Notable for the introduction of spiral columns enriched with branches and vines. This work of Ganga and Salzillo meant the triumph of the altar-niche in the kingdom of Murcia. The large dressing room is the protagonist of the altarpiece designed as a great triumphal arch that looms; on a red background (which becomes stronger the value of gold and silver from the polychrome), the group of Salzillo Santa Ana and the Virgin Mary . Other sculptural works of the altarpiece are San Juan Bautista, San Jose (with a new composition), San Juan Evangelista, San Joaquin , and Dominicans San Antonino of Florence and San Alberto Magno .