Valladolid Cathedral

According to Jose Pereira, in the Mannerist phase, Herrera’s cathedral of Valladolid has a significant influence on the style of the Sé Catedral de Santa Catarina. For the cathedral of Valladolid, the central portion of the domed basilica forms a clerestory which allows the light to come into the central space of the church. Furthermore, the crossing of the nave and the transepts constructs another bright focus by the outside light. Julio Simao was the chief architect of Portugal. He had to move to India with his wife, as well as two daughters, because of the reconstruction of the Se. In the cathedral, the lights coming in through the aisles and the oculus of the façade, rather than the windows of the clerestory, lit the nave of the church. The aisles, on the other hand, are lit by the windows of the façade and above the side chapels. The transepts are lit by the upper-level windows. In the original model, the Valladolid Cathedral, Herrera placed each side chapels one Oculus, “the one eye of the Cyclops”(Pereira 39), while Julio had three windows on each side chapels as well as one Oculus in order to represent “the three eyes of the Indian divinity, Shiva”(40).

At the same time, he applied the elements of indigenous elements in Indian area based on the structure of the European architecture. To a certain degree, Julio Smiao played a similar role to the Spanish, who rebuilt Cuzco as a hybrid city after the conquest. Thus, the reconstructed Spanish city is the same as the Sé Catedral de Santa Catarina, as an intruder to the indigenous culture. Compared with the few recognizable features of the original Cuzco city, Julio remained relatively sufficient evident to identify the appearances of the initial