angels. But others were profoundly local: Toledo Cathedral, founded in the 1220s, was an idiosyncratic attempt to put Gothic clothing on the city’s main mosque; Seville’s cathedral, converted from a mosque at the start of the fifteenth century, underwent a similar transformation. These—and others like them in Valencia and Lleida—are weird and wonderful places, unique products of Spain’s variegated history. They also stand testament to the perceived power of Gothic design and decoration to bring a physical structure closer to God.
