page_title: Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Interior de la Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Ciudad de Puebla, Puebla en México, composición hdr
context_page_description: The Chapel of the Virgen del Rosario is the chapel attached to the Church of Santo Domingo in the city of Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. Work of the 17th century, summit of the New Spanish Baroque, was described in its time as the Eighth Wonder of the World by Friar Diego de Gorozpe, in a print of 1690, regarded like this for a long time in the New Spain, as well as La Casa de Oro and Domus Aurea. It is one of the most prominent examples of the New Spanish Baroque and one of the greatest artistic-religious achievements in Mexico. It is a chapel full of symbolisms, where each element represents something related to the Catholicism and Dominican Order beliefs. It is located on pedestrian avenue 5 de Mayo number 407.
  The building is part of the Historic Center of Puebla City, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987.
context_section_description: This type of construction reflects the economic reach of the Church in those years and the ambition and sumptuousness with which its churches were planned and erected.
  The plan is arranged in the shape of a Latin cross, with short sections and testero. The nave is divided into three sections and its vault is barrel with lunettes in the same way as the sections of the crossing, it has a narrow dome with tholobate and on this some windows and others in the semicircular dome, whose purpose is to give illumination to the sumptuous ciprés just down.
  The interior of the chapel is majestic, where the architectural structures have been covered in every corner that is observed with reliefs in golden stucco, in order to exalt the religious feeling.
  The lateral walls of the nave are symmetrically covered by large canvases by the painter José Rodríguez Carnero (1649-1725), with themes alluding to the Joys of the Virgin, the paintings are in the Chiaroscuro style that contrast with the bright and clear adorn the crossing, by the same author.
  The lower part of the paintings is adorned with a lambrin of azulejos from Talavera pottery.
  On the crossing there are other paintings with themes related also to the life of the Virgin, as well as another large one that crowns the apse of the chapel and is dedicated to the Glorification and Triumph of the Rosary. The reliefs that cover the walls, pilasters and vaults have motifs not only of the plant, animal or angelic order but also of the symbolic-religious order.
  The Chapel is decorated with overgilded yeseria, prepared with a base of flour with egg white and water (?) and covered with 24 carat gold leaves, like many Baroque decorations of the Pueblan capital.
  On the altar stands the throne of the Virgin, with a baldachin carved by the Spanish master Lucas Pinto.
caption: View of the chapel
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