
Catalan Painting · Romanesque Art
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




