If we leave aside the dark inspiration that this type of place usually represents, generally, in the macabre evolution of people's thoughts and we observe them with the passionate vehemence that transcends everything beautiful, we will see the crypts as a set of splendid creations, in which the spirit is worshiped, with the wonderful complexities offered by any work subject to the unequivocal rules of Sacred Geometry.
Although modern, but millimetrically based on those antecedents that made Western architecture a complex system of identification with religion, in this case, Christian, which from the reign of Constantine, began to be considered with the official status of the State, the neo-Romanesque crypt of the Almudena Cathedral, can be considered as a true poem of Art and Architecture, ideal, to be seduced by each and every one of the vertiginous avatars that move the spirit.
Leaving aside that masterpiece that is its immeasurable forest of columns -which we have to total in the significant number of 400 and all, without exception, equipped with genuine capitals, carved with an exclusive variety of themes- and focusing on that willful perfection From its stained glass windows, whose antecedents suggest that medieval stonemasons also intended to recreate, at least, part of the solar transit -birth, death and resurrection- in their temples, we will have the opportunity to contemplate a show of relevant singularity.
Placed with scrupulous discretion, in a score of funerary chapels, in whose designs the majestic hands of sculptors of deserved international fame, such as Benlliure, intervened, the stained glass windows show, beyond the illusory perception of the archetypes of the religion they serve, a complex mosaic of fantasies, where light and color also recreate ideal settings for contemplation, the key being, on the other hand, the magnetism produced by an aesthetic of calm complexity, which floods the profound soliloquies to which these everlasting protagonists, Light and Darkness, in the rest of the ship.
In themselves and due to their natural origin, they already make up an extraordinary artistic heritage, as they were made by one of the oldest and most recognized artisan glass companies in Europe: Maumejean House.
In short: an ideal complement, the magic of whose light, filtered in the style of ancient and little-known alchemical techniques, makes the viewer's sensitivity reach heights of elegant sublimity.
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