Katafalki królewskie (túmulos reales) Marii Amalii Saksońskiej, królowej hiszpańskiej w Manili (Filipiny), Cartagenie de Indias (Wicekrólestwo Nowej Granady) i Limie (Wicekrólestwo Peru)
The royal catafalques (túmulos reales) of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of Spain, in Manila (The Philipines), Cartagena de Indias (the Viceroyalty of New Granada) and Lima (the Viceroyalty of Peru)

Summary/Abstract: Royal catafalques, even those dedicated to the memory of a single person, as in this case, Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony of Spain, had a wide variety of architectural forms. Any possibility of analysing the artistic elements and iconographic programs is limited by the number of surviving sources. In selecting the objects to be presented in this article (catafalques erected in Cartagena de Indias, Manila and Lima), I was guided by the existence of graphics showing the artistic form of the monuments under study; for all three of the catafalques characterised in the text, iconographic sources in the form of engravings have survived. An analysis of the form has made it possible to present the tradition of royal exequies common to the entire Spanish empire in its artistic renditions of a local character.

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