Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

ventana estandarte

English translation:

banner window

Added to glossary by Taña Dalglish
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Spanish term

ventana estandarte

Spanish to English Art/Literary Architecture cathedral
En un texto sobre una catedral gótica española: "campean en la ventana estandarte las armas del obispo
Gracias!"
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JohnMcDove Jan 30, 2017:
Given the picture, I believe that any of the answers given would do. "Blind window" or "false window" may also work, but it should have "blazon", "emblem", "coat of arms window", or "banner window", as part of it. Knowing it is not a real "window" is is key here. Otherwise, it could be misleading.
Ellen Kraus Jan 30, 2017:
the wind in question (on the photo) is a socalled "blind window" it cant be seen through it only has the shape of a window but it is either of the same material as the building´s wall (concrete for instance) or it has Ornaments as that on the photo. It looks like the cathedral`s banner (Emblem) of coat of arms, well whatever. Iwould call it blind window with the cathedral´s ..... ( it will be easy for you to find out what it exactly is, by magnifying the Illustration.
Paula Sepúlveda (X) (asker) Jan 30, 2017:
Not exactly a "window" When I asked the question I didn't have an image available, but now I do. You can see it here: http://www.jdiezarnal.com/catedraldesantodomingodelacalzadap...
It refers to the one below the pediment. Hope this helps, because I have my doubts about including "window" in the translation. Thanks!
Muriel Vasconcellos Jan 29, 2017:
@Marie From what I read about rose windows, they are not the main window that features the bishop's crest. They *may* show the crests of various bishops, but not typically and not one single crest, by virtue of their design.
Marie Wilson Jan 29, 2017:
Check out
"ventana estandarte" https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_la_Purísima_Concepc...
and "rose window" https://tourism.euskadi.eus/en/cultural-heritage/church-of-t...
I can't post this as reference due to my previous answer.
Marie Wilson Jan 29, 2017:
Rose window I've had another look and I think it could be this. They are made of stained glass and depict coats of arms.
philgoddard Jan 29, 2017:
Yes Which cathedral is it?
Muriel Vasconcellos Jan 29, 2017:
If you know the name of the Cathedral ... You might want to search for touristic descriptions in English online.

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banner window

I will stay with my original thinking, although I did initially say that I had serious doubts:

This link (pardon me for reposting in my answer), speaks to "banner window", as do some other links in my references.

http://www.bizkaia.eus/Kultura/Ondarea_Bizkaia/pdf/ondare/40...
In 1634, Gonzalo de Otálora y Guissasa, a historian from nearby Durango, described la iglesia de la Purísima Concepción (the church of the Immaculate Conception) at Elorrio as one of the best buildings of its kind in Europe.

Here is another, but in Spanish:
http://en.calameo.com/read/00007533501b66ce220b9
page 110: En otra, escudo de abad encuadrado en **ventana estandarte** con decoración geométrica romanista, medio cortado de cruz patada y cinco quinas de veros ....

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Thank you darwinista.
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east window

A look at descriptions of the windows of Gothic churches suggests that the bishop's crest is usually placed in "the most important window" - which would be the east window, according to the description of the different windows at: ttps://www.google.com/search?q=cathedral window bishops arms&ie=ut...
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neutral philgoddard : Could be!
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heraldic window

It could be this:

Heraldic window in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, England ...
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/67131850674284918/
Heraldic window in Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, England

THE Nave of York Cathedral contains the most perfect, and perhaps ...
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownlo...
ON AN HERALDIC WINDOW IN YORK CATHEDRAL

Heraldic Window, Glasgow Cathedral | Glass c1970 by Harry St… | Flickr
https://www.flickr.com › Aidan McRae Thomson › Heraldic Window, Glasgow Cathedral
Jan 8, 2005 - Glass c1970 by Harry Stammers, part of a sequence in the Blackadder Aisle. Glasgow Cathedral (dedicated to St Mungo or St Kentigern) .
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blazon window emblem

Another "uneducated" guess.

Coat of arms window?

https://es.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/spanish-english/...

https://books.google.com/books?id=gIC6mZChgOkC&pg=PA99&lpg=P...

With this I would be tempted to call it "rose window", but I tend to think "blazon window", may fit the bill.

Capilla Colleoni, Bergamo
http://www.conociendoitalia.com/fotos-de-bergamo/

blazon window emblem
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-bishop-...

It would help to know which Spanish Gothic Cathedral are we talking about... :-)

Good luck!
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a window with (or for) the banner of the cathedral

a banner is a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message

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after the latest link the asker provided, I would call it a "blind window with the Cathedral´s Emblem"
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Refs.

I don't have the answer, but I will leave you with these references, some of which may clue you into the meaning of "ventana estandarte":

The last link (Glosario) may be quite useful, if not for ventana estandarte, but other terms.
http://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/38480/1/03. Jose Javie...
De esta manera, la ***ventana-estandarte*** que cobija el escudo de la Casa Consistorial de Allo, excepcional ejemplo de
arquitectura concejil renacentista en Navarra, incorpora dos bustos de perfil
con sus respectivas inscripciones que los identifican con Aníbal y Escipión.

DF] Church of the Immaculate Conception *** (this links says "banner window", but this I have very serious doubts about the accuracy of the translation) ***
www.bizkaia.eus/Kultura/Ondarea_Bizkaia/pdf/ondare/40 i.pdf
Basque church architecture. What makes it ... ****ventana-estandarte, or banner window***. The choir ... Valentine of Berriotxoa, the work of architects Manuel M. Smith.



http://www.restaurantesnavarra.com/monumentos-pamplona.php?i...
Pamplona
Chapel of San Fermín
Pamplona City Hall
Royal and General Archive of Navarra
St Mary Cathedral
The Camera of the Comptos
The City Walls of Pamplona
The Palace of Navarra
Other locations in Navarra

Balneario of Fitero
Basilica of Our Lady of the Puy
Castle of Javier
Church of San Pedro de la Rúa
Church of Santa María la Real de Sangüesa
Church of Santa María Los Arcos
Church of St Mary of Eunate
Church of the Holy Sepulchre Torres del Rio
Collegiate Church of Roncesvalles
Hórreos in the Valley of Aezkoa
Julián Gayarre Mausoleum
Monastery of Fitero
Monastery of Irache
Monastery of Iranzu
Monastery of La Oliva
Monastery of Leire
Monastery of Tulebras
Palace of the Kings of Navarre Estella
Palace of the Marquis of Huarte Tudela
Roman Ruins of Andelos
Roman villa at Arellano
Romanesque Bridge At Puente la Reina
Royal Palace of Olite
The Church of San Pedro Olite
The Church of Santa María Olite
The Church of Santa María Viana
The Quarter of San Pedro Estella
The Walls of Artajona
Tudela Cathedral


https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_la_Purísima_Concepc...
Finalmente es preciso destacar la torre, construida en el año 1672, con una altura de 53,34 metros y que se articula en cuatro cuerpos: los dos primeros cuadrangulares, el tercero de base octogonal y el cuarto cilíndrico, rematado por una cupulita, rodeada por una corona condal. hay que destacar ***la ventana "estandarte"*** de la torre adintelada y con rica decoración. El fuste sobrepasa la altura del tejado.Tiene elementos decorativos cerámicos, a la manera andaluza, y el remate es ochavado careciendo de pináculos,


http://www.madrid.org/bvirtual/BVCM002344.pdf
(see page 277)
En el segundo cuerpo se sitúan
las ***tres ventanas estandartes
principales *** y en los frontones se
representa a San Pedro y San
Pablo. Salpicados en el resto de
los elementos arquitectónicos
hay toda clase de personajes y
animales mitológicos que
aluden constantemente al tema
de la elevación del alma al
conocimiento verdadero y al
dominio de las pasiones.


http://www.lebrelblanco.com/anexos/atlas-PuentelaReina-Pampl...
http://www.lebrelblanco.com/anexos/atlas-Glosario.htm


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I've found this reference for the "Church of the Immaculate Conception". It does make mention of "banner window".

http://www.bizkaia.eus/Kultura/Ondarea_Bizkaia/pdf/ondare/40...
In 1634, Gonzalo de Otálora y Guissasa, a historian from nearby Durango, described la iglesia de la Purísima Concepción (the church of the Immaculate Conception) at Elorrio as one of the best buildings of its kind in Europe.

Exaggerations aside, it has to be said that the church is a remarkable achievement, and is so big that its construction kept generations of the local townspeople busy, from the mid-15th century - when work began - until it was finally consecrated.

The building
The building as a whole is one of the finest examples of the Basque columnar church, or hallenkirche, although more because of its sheer size rather than for the purity of its style.

Oddly enough, the church as it is today is not quite as originally planned, as some alterations to the design were improvised during construction. Work began in 1449 on what was to be a Gothic church but progress was so slow that by 1506 it had developed into a more modern, Renaissance style.
The church has one grand central nave and two narrow lateral naves. They each have three sections and the church is crowned in the centre by a complex and irregular chevet.

Perhaps the building’s most unusual feature, apart from the ashlar walls, are the four remarkably tall columns with Corinthian capitals that support the sections of Gothic-style ribbed vaulting, itself one of the most complex and elastic in Basque church architecture. What makes it unusual is that the
foliage normally decorating the capital has been replaced by a crown of very expressive, almost grotesque figures and heads.

Following Diego de Siloe’s Castilian manner, light filters in from the south through large semicircular windows with Renaissance tracery. The most elegant bay of all is to be found in the tower, in a room that was most probably used as a chapter house and records office. It is in fact a lintelled, profusely decorated ****ventana-estandarte, or banner window.****

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The choir, which occupies the entire width of the naves,
is also of great interest. Its depressed central arch presented
a major technical challenge to the builders, a challenge which
local stonemason Rafael de Garaizábal successfully overcame

The two main doors, oriented towards the plaza and the
end opposite to the chevet, are practically identical, framed with
pillars and with a range of Gothic features, including splayed
jambs, pointed archivolts, bare tympana and framing ogees.
A superb tower stands at the lower right angle of the
building. The partly prism-shaped, partly quadrangular shaft
of the tower rises above the roof of the main body of the
church and belfry. Particularly noteworthy are the Andalusianstyle
coloured ceramic tiles, and the octagonal finial also

After master masons Pascual de Iturriza and Andrés de
Mendraca had come and gone, the impressive, colourful,
finely wrought vault keystone pieces created by sculptor
Martín Ruiz de Zubiate were put into place in 1595. Later
additions included the choir and the belfry, finished in 1672.
Furnishings
This remarkable building is richly furnished with interesting
and beautiful ornaments. The most attractive are the reredoses
placed at different points around the church. It is no
exaggeration to say that the main reredos and the lateral ones
together make up the most spectacular example of the rococo
in the whole of Bizkaia.
Also important is the classical lateral reredos of Saint
Gregorio Nacianceno, dating from 1530, featuring a superb
carving of Saint Sebastian. Other outstanding works include
a magnificent wooden crucifix - a superb example of
Renaissance work from the mid 16th century - on the same
side of the church, plus two baroque paintings in the chevet
and some bronze Renaissance lecterns.
Finally, mention must be made of the spectacular and
rather exotic funerary monument-cum-altar dedicated to Saint
Valentine of Berriotxoa, the work of architects Manuel M. Smith
and Marcelino Arrupe (1908). Sculptors Basterra and Larrea,
and the Maumejean company, also worked on the altar.
Designed by Diego Martínez de Arce, from Madrid, the
church of the Immaculate Conception was developed by
altarpiece specialist Silvestre de Soria from Navarra from
1754 onwards. Work on the sculptures was done by Antonio
de Hontañón, from Cantabria, and on the paintings by Antonio
Ximénez Echevarría, from Mondragón.

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Darwinista: I personally am totally confused. Given the additional context provided along with the photo, I still have no clue which structure you are referencing here as a "ventana estandarte", but leave you with these links (I give up now!):


http://www.vinoturismorioja.com/en/monuments-museums/item/97...
Viticulture Sub-zones:Rioja Alta
Municipality:Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Province:La Rioja
Email:[email protected]
Phone:(34) 941 340 033
Website:www.catedralsantodomingo.es
Santo Domingo de la Calzada Cathedral
Location: in the center of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 46 ​​kilometers away from Logroño, 20 km from Nájera, 19 km from Haro and 68 kilometers from Burgos.
The construction of the Cathedral of El Salvador and Santa María started in the mid-twelfth century, and the present temple is of great value for the study of the different architectural and ornamental styles that have followed one another in Spain: from Romanesque (in the apse) to Baroque (in the main tower), through Gothic and Plateresque. Of the three existing cathedrals in La Rioja, this one of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is possibly the most valuable along with Calahorra Cathedral, which was the first chronologically.
The Romanesque apse has beautiful windows and corbels, carved with faces of people and animals. There are two portals: one from the period of transition from Romanesque to Gothic, with a characteristic pointed arch with archivolts, and another dating from the eighteenth century, which has three statues in niches under a large arch. The cathedral tower, interestingly, is separated from the main building and can be visited apart, with a different admission ticket. It is worth climbing up the bell tower to enjoy the panoramic view.
The interior of the temple deserves a relaxed visit, for it contains numerous interesting items, such as the mausoleum and the remains of Santo Domingo, the Gothic-Mudejar cloister, and some Romanesque capitals, Renaissance altarpieces, Hispano-Flemish paintings, tombs, carvings... One of the most popular claims is a henhouse made of stone, dating from the fifteenth century, in which a living rooster and a hen are kept permanently to commemorate one of the miracles attributed to Santo Domingo. Anyone who doesn’t know the legend can learn right there the origin of these verses: "Santo Domingo de la Calzada, / where a hen sang after being roasted". A small wooden door at the back of the church deserves attention as well. It leads to the defense system of the cathedral, which dates from the fourteenth century, and sometimes goes unnoticed.
The cathedral was declared a national monument in 1931.


http://www.english.catedralsantodomingo.es/catedral.html
Construction of the Cathedral
The construction of the Cathedral began in 1158. Designed by Garsion the Cathedral has a Latin cross shaped floor plan (cruciform), including in the design three naves, the transept (the centre of the cruciform), ambulatory, three apses (the arched semi circle recesses) and a gallery.
The east end is what remains of the original construction. During the XVth and XVIth centuries, San Andres’ chapel was constructed and San Bartolomé and Santiago´s chapels were remodified. In the central Romanic apse, one notices the prominence of the capitals and pillars around the presbytery. On the left side of the first capital of the ambulatory El Salvador (Pantocrator) is represented and on the right side, The Assumption. The cathedral is consecrated to them. On the right side of the presbytery, on the third pillar we can see a representation of The Holy Trinity devoted to the Parish Church. On the fifth pillar King David is represented.
At the beginnings of the XIVth century three naves were built, covered with simple quadripartite rib vaults at the laterals and eight ribs in the central vault, the cathedral was finished with its main western door void of the usual decorations or sculptures owing to a lack of economic resources. At that time the cathedral was a fortified building, due to the fact that a war was taking place between the kingdoms of Castilla and Navarra. This is also the reason why a western vestibule and passages were constructed, to defend the interior and exterior of the building. There are still remains at the left nave, above the chapels and the cloister access door. The cloister was also remodeled at this time.
In the XVth century a phase of extensive constructive work took place in the Cathedral, which actually extended into the following century. This work included the enlargement of the south transept, owing to the collapse of a south occident pillar, the raising of the main altar, the construction of Santo Domingo´s Mausoleum and of the chapels of San Andres, Rosario, Inmaculada, Hermosilla, Santa Teresa and Magdalena, all of them built at the laterals which break up the initial perimeters, as well as the two apses previously mentioned. During the XVIIth century the Martyrs Chapel was also constructed.
Between 1761 and 1765 the current façade was built, dominated by the dioceses´ patron-saints: San Emeterio, San Celedonio and Santo Domingo, and the separated tower.
In 1958 a crypt as built downstairs in order to safeguard the relics of Santo Domingo.

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-santo-domingo-de-la-calzada...


https://elcaminoayearlater.wordpress.com/2011/12/
We rest a bit and then go for a touristy visit to the Cathedral with its many legends. Santo Domingo is known as the patron saint of engineers, especially bridge builders. The story I read is that he was denied access to the monastery because he was illiterate; however, he would not be dissuaded from a life of service, so he built many of the bridges that still stand in the region to make the pilgrimage easier for the pilgrims. One particular story that caught my imagination tells of a young man who was falsely accused of a crime and was hanged. But the saint interceded on his behalf to the King who had ordered the hanging. When the King refused the pardon claiming that the boy was already dead, the Saint said, he is as dead as the chicken you are eating. At which point, the chicken sprang to life and so did a rooster. So in the church we now see a white hen and a rooster. We pay 2.50 E to enter the cathedral and see a display of a “Belen Napolitano” and of course to see the chickens in their elaborate black wrought iron coop.


https://archive.org/stream/spanisharchitect00byneuoft#page/7...
Figure 23 on page 74 shows a "blind window" in the Façade of the University of Alcalá (with bars)


https://lariojaturismo.com/en/community/larioja/resource/san...
Santo Domingo Cathedral.

http://www.spain.info/en/que-quieres/arte/monumentos/rioja_l...
Its origins date back to 1158, when building work began. In the 14th and 16th centuries it underwent various modifications until it attained its current appearance. It has three naves with a transept, ambulatory, triforium and an ogival vaulted ceiling. Highlights on its exterior include the Romanesque apse, Baroque tower and the south or 'Santo' entrance, with a semi-circular arch, images set in niches and circular skylights. The main altarpiece is in alabaster and walnut and was completed in 1545. There is some outstanding 16th-century Plateresque ornamentation on the choir stalls. The various different chapels include particularly the chapels of El Sepulcro de Santo Domingo (with recumbent statue); Santa Teresa (pantheon of the Marquises of Ciriñuela); La Magdalena (one of the most richly appointed in the cathedral); El Santo Cristo (with two altarpieces, one Renaissance, the other Baroque); San Pedro (which conserves part of its Romanesque structure). The cloister dates from the 14th century, although it was later modified in the 16th. The sacristy and chapterhouse are home to important works of art, such as several Hispano-Flemish triptychs from the 15th and 16th centuries, and a range of precious metalwork.


Here is a glossary (in English)
http://www.english.catedralsantodomingo.es/glosario.html#e
Pediment:
classical architecture element consisting of a triangular section found above the horizontal structure, usually supported by columns. The tympanum was often decorated with sculptures and reliefs.
Note from asker:
Thanks for all the references. Extremely useful.
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