Romanesque Art: San Clemente, Vera Cruz, and Islamic Influence

San Clemente tahullas. Certainly, the paintings that covered the apse of San Clemente tahullas and are now preserved in the Museum of Art of Catalonia, are one of the best works of its kind in Spain and all of Europe. The vaulted apse oven is painted with a wonderful Christ in Majesty (Maiestas) in a Byzantine style, surrounded by four angels bearing the symbols of the evangelists. Below runs a frieze which appears part of the apostolic college. Within the traditional representations of the "Pantocrator" Romanesque, it is undoubtedly the most majestic, noble, and full of divine transcendence of all those represented in the international Romanesque. To this work, perfect symmetry and geometric design of her face and her whole tahullas figura. The Christ shows how Roman art sought and found the symbolic significance through logical and geometric art. Vera Cruz Maderuelo This small chapel located on the outskirts of Maderuelo across the Linares reservoir, wall paintings were preserved with the creation of this dam and were moved to the Museum of Prado. On the wall of the feet is the creation of Adam and Original Sin, while the head was painted in the apostolic college and above the usual "Maiestas."

Romanesque art was developed in an era of poverty and commercial isolation of all Europe, feudalism. Romanesque art developed during the centuries XI, XII, and XIII mid-season when Gothic art begins. Gothic art in itself coincides with the fullness and the crisis of the Middle Ages. It coincides with the maximum development of urban culture where the bourgeoisie appears, the universities and the flourishing of religious orders and the exacerbation of conflicts and dissent, and finally the dreadful events of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War in a changing world that can only be understood in terms of a fundamental change, the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Islam. The Islamic civilization has its roots in the new religion preached by Muhammad. The basic principles of this religion are one God Allah, Mohammad is the prophet, pray five times a day facing Mecca, giving alms, fasting in the month of Ramadan and the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in life. One of the most important civilizations of the Middle Ages was the Muslim civilization, which brought together all cultures of the peoples they conquered to form a vast empire, whose union was religion and language. Muslims arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 711 and managed to conquer but pockets of resistance in the Cantabrian Mountains, which gave rise to the Christian kingdoms. They would be expelled by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 in Granada, the last Muslim kingdom. Arco half point. In the Romanesque church, the Bible is narrated in images carved on the portals of entry and in the capitals of the cloisters. Vault, first of wood and stone later. Buttresses on the walls to hold the vaults. Pilar wider. Plant in the form of a Latin cross. The walls and vaults are decorated with paintings depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the Saints. Also representing imaginary animals and scenes of war and everyday life that allow us to know the mentality and customs of the time. One or more ships. Apses semicircular to finish the ships. Cruiser. Separate houses where were the faithful of the choir. Girola. passed behind the altar. Crypt. Some churches kept the relics of saints. Campanario. In the Romanesque church, the Bible narrated the images carved on the portals of entry and in the capitals of the cloisters. The walls and vaults are decorated with paintings depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the Saints. Also representing imaginary animals and scenes of war and everyday life that allow us to know the mentality and customs of the time.