Gothic Choir in Monastery of Nájera, in Navarra, north of Spain. In the choir, the gothic style choir stalls stand out. It was made between the years 1493 and 1495, being attributed the direction of the work to the brothers Andrés and Nicolás Amutio, and was financed by the abbot Pablo Martínez de Uruñuela (they are represented in the back of the second lower left chair).
The carvings on the backs, as well as on the mercy seats, are all different and represent religious symbols, scenes of daily life and important people of that time. The carving of the abbot’s chair stands out, in which King García of Nájera is represented.
The whole of the Choir is crowned by two large canvases. In one of them there is a gallery with six pairs of kings duly identified. The whole ends with a baroque representation of a Benedictine congregation on a frieze with small columns that closes a rococo landscape. It ended up very deteriorated in the period of abandonment of the monumental set at the end of the 19th century.
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