Tre figure maschili, scolpite in rilievo all'ingresso della basilica del Monastero di Santa Maria de Ripoll nella provincia di Girona, Catalogna, Spagna. L'ingresso fu scolpito a metà degli anni '1100 in stile romanico lombardo. Le tre figure in questa immagine contengono ciascuno oggetti, con la figura centrale che tiene un bastone o un bastone di autorità nella mano destra e un libro nella sinistra.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
21 giugno 2011
Ubicazione:
Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, Girona province, Catalonia, Spain
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Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, Girona province, Catalonia, Spain: west entrance to 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. The basilica was established by Abbot Oliba in 1032. The west entrance, sculpted in the mid-1100s, is in the Lombard artistic style and is considered one of the finest examples of Lombard Romanesque sculpture. It was damaged in a fire of 1835 and subsequently restored. Made with blocks of sandstone approximately one metre wide, the entrance was conceived as an arch of triumph with seven archivolts and the facade on either side divided into seven horizontal strips. There is no tympanum. The entrance is fully sculpted with biblical, historical and allegorical scenes, plant and geometric motifs, signs of the Zodiac, and monsters. It is often referred to as the “Stone Bible”. 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. 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. D1087.B2979
