El camarín del Santísimo Sacramento en la catedral de Huesca (1543) y la herencia litúrgica medieval

Resumen

In 1520, the canonry of the Cathedral of Huesca hired the master Damien Forment to create the main altarpiece of the church, an alabaster piece decorated with scenes of the Passion. In the upper part of the retable, he made a circular opening dedicated to the exhibition of the Eucharist, which communicated with the Eucharist chapel and the sacristy. The typology was typical of the kingdom of Aragon and has its immediate forerunners in the area of Zaragoza. In this paper we analyse these precedents and the uses of this kind of ensemble, in addition to the way they were preserved and used after the Middle Ages. The documentary sources used for the analysis are the cathedral customaries from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, descriptions by early modern historians and, of course, the preserved artifacts. The analysis of these ensembles reveals that the works made after the sixteenth century preserved the medieval liturgical customs while adding luxury and magnificence, thus indicating the appearance of certain transformations within the tradition.