Juan Pedro Livadote al servicio de la condesa de Niebla: el convento de Madre de Dios (1574-1576)

Abstract

This article documents the design and building of the main cloisters, the church, the countess´s room, and other dependencies of the God´s Mother convent of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), (1574-1576), by Napolitano military engineer Juan Pedro Livadote, at the service of the Niebla´s countess Mrs. Leonor Manrique de Sotomayor y Zúñiga. Also, its documents the patronage artistic of that lady for that community of Dominic’s monks, where she go into when her son, the VII duke of Medina Sidonia, don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, was adult.