Hospicio de San Fernando

Hospicio de San Fernando

Year

1726

Architect

Type

building

The portal of this former orphanage is the most extreme ornamental gesture in Spanish Baroque architecture (a cascade of carved stone foliage, shells, cartouches, and figures compressed into a narrow frame that seems barely able to contain …

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