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In Spanish Romanesque architecture triforia are scarce because the bare wall was usually left in their place, or a blind arcade was built. An example of a triforium is in the Santiago de Compostela cathedral where the aisle of the cathedral has two floors and the triforium occupies the entire second, covering the entire building and lining the ...
Spanish Romanesque designates the Romanesque art developed in the Hispanic-Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th and 12th centuries. Its stylistic features are essentially common to the European Romanesque although it developed particular characteristics in the different regions of the peninsula.
Later Romanesque architecture arrived with the influence of Cluny through the Way of Saint James, that ends in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The model of the Spanish Romanesque in the 12th century was the Cathedral of Jaca, with its characteristic plan and apse, and its "chessboard" decoration in stripes, called taqueado jaqués. As ...
The bell-gables or espadañas are a feature of Romanesque architecture in Spain.They replaced the bell tower beginning the 12th century due to the Cistercian reformation that called for a more simplified and less ostentatious churches, but also for economical and practical reasons as the Reconquista accelerated and wider territory needed to be re-christianized building more temples and ...
Spanish Romanesque was also influenced by the Spanish pre-Romanesque styles, mainly the Asturian and the Mozarab. But there is also a strong influence from the moorish architecture, so close in space, specially the vaults of Córdoba`s Mosque, and the polylobulated arches. In the 13th century, some Romanesque churches were built with early ...
The church of San Pedro de Tejada. The Church of San Pedro de Tejada is an important example of Spanish Romanesque architecture. Located in the Valley of Valdivieso, part of the region of Las Merindades in the Province of Burgos, it served a monastery which may have already existed at the beginning of the 9th century.
Miguel Sobrino has argued for a now-disappeared Romanesque dome over the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. [2] Puerta del Obispo (Bishop's Door). On the south side of the church, facing the Palacio Episcopal (Bishop's Palace), is the richly sculptured Puerta del Obispo (Bishop's Doorway). It is divided into three vertical sectors, divided by ...
Spanish Gothic. Mudéjar Style c. 1200–1700 (Spain, Portugal, Latin America) [4] ... Romanesque architecture 1050–1100; Romanesque Revival architecture 1840 ...