Some of the most beautiful Romanesque art was created in Catalonia (in northeast Spain), and much of it can be seen today in the National Museum of Catalan Art located in Barcelona.
c. 1000 - 1200
Some of the most beautiful Romanesque art was created in Catalonia (in northeast Spain), and much of it can be seen today in the National Museum of Catalan Art located in Barcelona.
c. 1000 - 1200
The power that this sculpture has is precisely in the fact that it's not always concerned with naturalism and it's really concerned with telling a story.
In 1866, the Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned an Italian plaster maker to journey to Spain to make a copy of a monument of Romanesque art. See how the museum takes care of it more than 150 years later.
A serene Mary offers her draped lap as a throne for Christ. Her outsized hands direct the viewer to the divine.
These statues of the Virgin and Child often held relics. Designed to be mobile, they starred in parades and plays.
Delicate and brightly colored, this statue from Spain combines elegance with solidity, the human with the divine.
These frescoes covered the thick walls of a Romanesque church. Once isolated in the Pyrenees, they adorn a museum.
Romanesque sculptors adorned the tops of columns with bible stories. These scenes are bold, emotional, and direct.
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