Los Espacios de la muerte en la nobleza y su emulación a la corona. La arquitectura funeraria como representación de poder
Abstract
In the Hispanic world, especially under the Crown of Castile from the Late Middle Ages onward, the great lineages and principal noble houses sought to be buried alongside their families in churches and convents. These places were carefully chosen and meticulously maintained, as such temples aimed to display the power of the deceased and their lineage. Likewise, in the way they celebrated the solemn feast of death, the nobility—and in particular the Mendoza lineage and the Dukes of Infantado—pursued a very specific manner of emulating and imitating the royal house, even going so far as to build a pantheon like that of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the common burial site of the kings of Spain since the sixteenth century.