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MARTINEZ MARTIN, ABEL FERNANDO  e  OTALORA CASCANTE, ANDRÉS RICARDO. Of this Earthly City. The Church and the Convent of San Augustin in Tunja. Front. hist. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.2, pp.38-62.  Epub 01-Jul-2021. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.1384.

The article reconstructs the history of the convent of San Augustin in Tunja, which is famous for its mural painting, built on the Zaque enclosure, where the hermitage of Santiago was raised, from which the whole ensemble was developed. The role of characters such as the professed Augustinian Vicente de Requejada and the blessed Antonia de Cabañas. At the beginning of the 19th century, an inventory of the Augustinian church, today empty, was carried out by the order of san Juan de Dios, who occupied the cloister after the abolition of the Augustinian convent. It was possible to identify altars and images of canvas and bulk that are currently decontextualized in other places of the city. A space that was designed to house The City of God, ended up turned into a penitentiary.

Palavras-chave : convent of San Augustin; Neogranadine art; property heritage; Tunja; Colombia.

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