The entrance to San Gregorio epitomizes some of the inventive, complex architectural forms present on the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century
Location Country: Spain
Since the Middle Ages, the wall paintings from Sant Climent, Taull have dazzled, enchanted, and captured the imaginations of visitors from across the world.
The Painted Apse of Sant Climent, Taüll, ...
The Mosque of Bāb al-Mardūm—and its conversion into a church—embodies the multi-religious reality of medieval Spain.
The Mosque of Bāb al-Mardūm (the Church ...
The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania.
Colony of Augusta Emerita, Mérida
This Cistercian abbey in Catalonia is one of the largest in Spain.
The Cistercian Poblet Monastery
The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture.
Royal monastery of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
The late prehistoric rock-art sites of the Mediterranean seaboard of the Iberian peninsula form an exceptionally large group.
Rock art on the Iberian coast
Founded by Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros in the early 16th century, Alcalá de Henares was the world's first planned university city.
University of Alcalá de Henares
Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the Altamira Cave
Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art ...
Pérez de Holguín creates an opulent vision of the city of Potosí, disregarding the infamous stories of poverty and exploitation in the mines of the Cerro Rico
Melchor Pérez de Holguín, Entry of the ...
The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables is the most famous painting by the most acclaimed Spanish painter of the latter half of the seventeenth century
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Immaculate Conception of ...
If visitors know one thing about Barcelona before boarding a plane, it is the surname of the city’s most celebrated architect, Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí, Park Güell
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.
Conservation: Cast of the Pórtico de la ...
If we read Alejo Fernández's The Virgin of the Navigators closely, we can learn an enormous amount about Spain’s role in exploration, trade and commerce, conquest and colonization, and slavery.
Alejo Fernández, The Virgin of the Navigators
Alonso Berruguete is the most famous sculptor that you have never heard of.
Alonso Berruguete, Abraham and Isaac
What a camel in New York reveals about medieval Spain.
Camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga
If you suddenly found yourself the heir to a royal throne, what steps would you take to advertise that you are indeed the rightful inheritor?
Gil de Siloé, The Tomb of Juan ...
Two years before the Spanish expel the Jews and begin their invasion of the Americas, an artist paints an image of redemption.
Bartolomé Bermejo, Piedad with Canon Lluís Desplà
An imagined garden teeming with curious creatures and bizarre structures. What are we to think?
Spotlight — Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of ...
The sculptor Martínez Montañés was the “God of Wood,” but it’s the painter Pacheco who brought this work to life.
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