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Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Valdelaguna

Valdelaguna, Las Vegas, Madrid

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Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Valdelaguna

Monument · Valdelaguna, Las Vegas, Madrid

The church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Valdelaguna is a parish built in several phases, with an origin that may go back to the 13th or 15th centuries, whose apse preserves 15th-century wall paintings: an oil-on-dry-plaster painting depicting a Man of Sorrows Christ surrounded by the Tetramorph, discovered and restored in 2002 and considered an exceptional case of Hispano-Flemish mural painting in the Comunidad de Madrid. The temple was plundered during the Civil War, when the major Baroque altarpiece that the Toledan José Machín had commissioned in 1698 disappeared, along with a canvas of the Assumption attributed to the school of Ribera. In 1462 the nobleman Hernando Díaz de Benavente was buried here, and in 1573 the mystic writer Miguel de la Fuente was baptised here.

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