[372] Almudévar has a picturesque castle, with a chapel on its eastern side, but I was unable to examine it.
[373] Cean Bermudez (Arq. i. 83) says that the work was commenced in A.D. 1400, and not finished until A.D. 1515.
[374] See plan, [Plate XXI.]
[375] It will be seen that the plan is exactly the same as that of the church of Las Huelgas, Burgos (see [Plate II.]), and the cathedral at Tudela ([Plate XXIV.]).
[376] This reredos cost 5500 crowns (escudos) or libras jaquesas.—- Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. 218.—Damian Forment is said to have studied under Donatello, which seems, however, on a comparison of dates, to have been all but impossible. The epitaph on his monument in the cloister here described him as “arte statuaria Phidiæ, Praxitelisque Æmulus,” a statement which must be accepted with the reserve usual in such cases.—Bellas Artes en España, ii. p. 132.
[377] See Ainsa, Historia de Huesca, lib. 4.
[378] See ground-plan on [Plate XXI.]
[379] Parcerisa, Aragon, p. 157.
[380] Views of Jaca and San Juan de la Peña are given by F. J. Parcerisa, ‘Recuerdos y Bellezas de España,’ Aragon.
[381] Seu, Sedes, See.