Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción- - - Catedral de Puebla ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spanish Mexican architect and sculptor Manuel Tolsá integrated architecture and sculpture in his design for the high altar of the cathedral of Puebla, begun in 1797 and completed in 1818. Tolsá oversaw the project, which was a collaboration with a number of other artists, and made an allegorical sculpture of Purity for the altar. He also received the commission for the baldachin for the cathedral in 1797, which replaced an earlier Baroque structure. Tolsá’s baldachin relied on complex religious iconography within a Neoclassical framework of Corinthian columns topped by a cupola on which St. Peter sits. Although the baldachin is noteworthy for its general Neoclassical symmetry and orderly design, Tolsá also included Baroque elements, such as a burst of gilded rays. www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/598688/Manuel-Tolsa DSCN9044