Foreword

The great book on Romanesque painting that had never been created before.

An exceptional, unique work that includes large-format reproductions, as well as general, detailed, and close-up photographs, organized into the following three parts:

The masterpieces of Catalan illuminated manuscripts from the 10th to the 12th century.

  • The great Bibles of the monasteries of Ripoll and Sant Pere de Rodes
  • The Beatus manuscripts of La Seu d’Urgell and Girona Cathedral
  • The Turin Beatus, created in the scriptorium of Girona Cathedral
  • The Cuixà Evangeliary
  • The Liber feudorum maior, from the Royal Curia of Barcelona, and other equally precious books

One of the greatest pictorial manifestations in the history of Catalan art

  • Sant Climent and Santa Maria de Taüll
  • Sant Quirze de Pedret
  • Santa Maria d’Àneu
  • Sant Pere del Burgal
  • The Creation Tapestry, from Girona Cathedral
  • Sant Pere de la Seu d’Urgell
  • Santa Maria de Mur
  • Sant Pere de Sorpe
  • Sant Sadurní d’Osormort
  • Santa Coloma and Sant Esteve d’Andorra

Painting on wood

  • Altar frontals, baldachins, and other pieces of simply extraordinary beauty and chromatic richness.

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Features

  • Large-format book: 33 cm x 42 cm
  • Pages: 408
  • Photographs: 220 (general and detailed)
  • Leather binding
  • Presentation: in a case lined with fabric, featuring a reproduction of the Avià altarpiece
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Text and selection of works:

Montserrat Pagès, conservator of Romanesque painting at the National Art Museum of Catalonia

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Ara: "Catalan Romanesque painting, scrutinized"
05/05/2015
La Vanguardia: "Montserrat Pagès puts the spotlight on Catalan Romanesque painting."
09/05/2015
El Punt Avui: "Romanesque in Detail"
11/05/2015

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