Sieben Apsisen und dekorative Blindarkade oder Lombardenband am östlichen Ende der Basilika des Benediktinerklosters Santa Maria de Ripoll in der Provinz Girona, Katalonien, Spanien. Die 1032 errichtete Basilika ist ein schönes Beispiel für die erste romanische oder lombardische romanische Architektur. Das Kloster wurde in den 1800er Jahren grundlegend restauriert
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. Juni 2011
Ort:
Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, Girona province, Catalonia, Spain
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Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, Girona province, Catalonia, Spain: seven apses at the eastern end of the basilica of the Benedictine monastery of Ripoll. The monastery was founded by Count Wilfred “The Hairy” (Count Guifré el Pelós) and his wife Guinedilda in the 800s and consecrated in the 900s, but radically restored in the 1800s and almost entirely rebuilt. The great basilica, with its five naves and seven apses, was established by Abbot Oliba in 1032 and is a fine example of First Romanesque or Lombard Romanesque architecture. At the beginning of the Romanesque period, i.e. around the year 1000, Catalonia moved away from Carolingian and Mozarabic artistic influences and, unlike the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, was influenced during the medieval period by Italy rather than France. Catalan art and architecture included features of a style referred to as “Lombard”: smooth walls subdivided by pilasters and decorated with blind arcades. The builders were nomadic artists known as Lombardi who began to build in Catalonia in the 1000s and remained prevalent in this region well into the Gothic period. In the 900s, the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll prospered. It became a cultural centre of reference in medieval Europe, its library being home to valuable religious, technical and legal documents. However, all that could be saved from looting and fire in 1835 were 231 volumes, now at the Royal Archive of Aragón. Modifications to the monastery over the centuries were due, for example, to the 1428 earthquake and destruction in armed conflicts in the 1700s and 1800s. D1085.B2954
