La cúpula de perfil contracurvo en el Barroco murciano y andaluz

Abstract

The cupolas and spires of the Murcian and Spanish Levantine Architecture show roofs with a characteristic S-rhythmed or counter-curved cross section, mude with tiles. These roofs are sistematically used here during the baroque period, in contrast to other Spanish regions where they are employed in a more accidental way and with dzfferent features. After exposing these differences and the origin and development of this form in Spanish Architecture, we delimit the precise area of that Murcian roof which we view as an unequivocal and distinctive sign of the Levantine region, next to the border of Eastern Andalusia.