Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción "La Cartuja"
Baroque charterhouse whose refectory paintings depict the martyrdom of English Carthusian monks under Henry the Eighth.
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This guide to the Monasterio de la Cartuja in Granada begins at a scaffold in London in 1535, where three Carthusian monks are executed for refusing to recognize Henry the Eighth, before crossing two centuries to a Granada monk, Fray Juan Sanchez Cotan, once famous for his precise still lifes. In this monastery's refectory he turned that same eye on his own order's martyrs, painting scenes of interrogation, imprisonment and execution. The guide asks why a community bound to near-total silence would choose to keep that violence in constant view.
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