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Diego Maroto
Fray Diego Maroto (1617 1696) was the most important architect of the second half of the seventeenth century.
Maroto occupied the positions of Maestro Mayor de Fabricas de la Catedral Metropolitana, supervisor of the unions of architects and Maestro Mayor de las Fabricas Reales during a four decade-long period of major civil construction projects in Lima.
As an architect of the Dominican Order, Maroto developed a vault resistant to earthquakes. The technique was imitated after the earthquake of 1687 in many monumental constructions in Lima, like the Cathedral of Lima and the Church of the Convent of San Agustin the ...
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