Fray Alberto architect (1575 – 1635): José Luis García Martínez and José Miguel Muñoz Jiménez

Abstract

Much of the baroque architecture was the work of religious men of the we do not know, perhaps for being humility one of his necessary virtues. However, this ignorance is surprising in the case of the Carmelite Fray Alberto de la Madre de Dios, given his enormous stature and work, ignorance that has even sometimes turned into denial on the part of some uninformed author. And the thing is that he, of whom Chueca Goitia said that he had been the initiator of the Baroque in Castile, is the proven author of nearly eighty works and supposedly of as many others, as is more than accredited in the book reviewed here.