Romanesque Art History; From Visigoths to Romanesque

As guideline I took


http://www.romanesqueheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/from_visigoth_to_gothic.pdf

Introduction

Paleo Chrisian

a) Paleo Christian Basilica at Empuries

b)   ,,,,                 ,,,,,           at Centelles (a few km west of Tarragona)

see http://www.spanisharts.com/arquitectura/imagenes/roma/i_tarragona_centelles.html

Centelles

c) Villa Fortunatus at Fraga (Aragon)  +Basilica with small cript;
Mosaic of Chi -Rho


d) Sacrophagi  at the necropolis of Girona, Tarragona and Barcelona.
Example Sant Feliu, Girona Chaste Susanne

e) Tombstone in former synagogue Toledo now El Transito
with Candelabra, palms and name Mixal (St Michael?)

Visigoths

Toulouse 416
After 507 Toledo

Arian Chrsitians

Main form Basilica with cruciform plan.

a) Sao Giao de Nazere ,Portugal north of Lisbon

Sao Giao de Nazere

Sao Giao de Nazere

 

Sao Giao de Nazere

Division between sanctuary and public space; cancel screens.

See Museum Lapidaire St Guilhem le Desert

Also in two basilicas San Clemente and Santa Sabina

b) Visigoth church Santa Cruz in Barcelona

now Musea d'Historia de la Ciutat

c) San Juan de Banos, Palencia, Spain

San Juan de Banos

San Juan de Banos

d) Santa Maria de Melque, near Toledo

e) Santa Maria de Quintanilla de las Vinas, near Burgos (690AD)

Santa Maria de Quintanilla 

Santa Maria de Quintanilla 

Santa Maria de Quintanilla 

Santa Maria de Quintanilla (Xth Century)

Santa Maria de Quintanilla (Xth Century)

Santa Maria de Quintanilla 

Santa Maria de Quintanilla 

Detail

f) San Pedro de la Nave near Zamora

see http://apuntes.santanderlasalle.es/arte/prerromanico/visigodo/san_pedro_de_la_nave.htm

http://www.monestirs.cat/monst/annex/espa/calleo/zamora/cnave.htm

  

   


 



g) Terassa three monuments

1) Santa Maria;church

Santa Maria

Santa Maria; Mosaic

Sant Miquel; former Baptistery

Sant Miquel

Sant Miquel

Sant Miquel;Crypt

3 Sant Pere; funeral chapel then parish church

Sant Pere

Sant Pere