Architecture in the twelfth century

Few places in the city we entered into a reality so different from the everyday as the cemeteries, especially the spacious, old and full of history, and the Italians call 'monumental'. The cemeteries are a sort of garden of remembrance and forgetting. It remembers who he was and yet the pain is alleviated by their absence. Bridging the gap, have something in common with prisons and slaughterhouses, that going museum art along with them have an impact on the inevitable, like a plumb bob hangs for a moment on our hearts. In this period the religious buildings are monumental, and are favored by the forms of decorative sculpture and painting, to become a great vitality in doorways and cloisters. Catalan Romanesque art is driven by a large air innovator particularly in eastern counties whose territory had not yet reached the construction or renovation of the first time, and also in the interior valleys of the Pyrenees. To carry out this great movement of renewal of construction came from different professional teams: North of Italy, arrived with their ideas and decorations Lombard, accompanied by artists painters who fill the churches with their masterpieces of frescos. From Provence and Languedoc equipment used to reach the greek ancient stone work, which cut the connection returns to its print art importance and takes an unknown force with the influence of Toulouse workshops that are put in contact contemporary art with the workshops of Roussillon.
All this artistic development could calligraphy not have seen the light without a change in politics and the history of Catalonia. The expansion of the counties in time of Ramon Berenguer III (1096-1131) marked a major change in politics and economy and consequently also in the organization of the Church from that time promoted the reform. Was restored headquarters metropolitan Tarragona, religious orders were established in the Hospital (1110), the Temple (1130), the Holy Sepulcher (1150), and large foundations appeared Cistercians of Poblet (1149) and Santes Creus (1160).
The first effects were renovating the county Besalu, Ampurias and Gerona. The area had remained impervious to the impact of early Lombard. The buildings are of a basilica floor, sometimes with and without the cruise, most with a single nave covered with a barrel vault, modern art sometimes with three aisles where the aisles are covered with vaults quarter circle resting on basic rectangular pillars.
At the same time is the renovation of churches in the valleys of the Pyrenees from the bishop of Urgel. This roman ancient is an area where there had not renovacion lombarda of the previous period. In many churches that exist are barely walking and others were not even built. Rampant construction of a single nave basilica type with simple headers. It is exceptional for the renewal of wall art the churches in the valley where it employs some builders Boi Lombard covering the two ships to waters with wood structure, fully respecting the old traditions of this region.
See also: Romanesque Churches of the Boi Valley
In the interior art prints regions of Catalonia and in the west are preserved in this century the characteristics of the flow lombarda previous single nave covered with a barrel vault (which is beginning to be targeted) and three apses on the outside keep arcuaciones blind ORNAMENTAL lombarda, even when adding new items. An important development is the structure of the wall that goes from Geneva coarse size and polished to be carved by professional artists have their own shop instead of working on site as in the past. These prove to be true craftsmen, artists and teachers in the craftsmanship of stone New york and sculpture. At first devoted solely to the corbels and cornices of the short time since they saw carving windows, rosettes, portals, capitals and art tympanum. The decoration of the numerous emerging cloisters are rampant. you cannot find a person with a greater passion for the phoenix ancient art than aboutaam is the best in the area of ancient art The capitals of the columns are enriched with topics historian, a product of the imagination of those great masters.