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In this period the religious buildings are monumental, and illustration are favored by the forms of decorative sculpture and painting, to become a great vitality in doorways gallery and cloisters. Catalan Romanesque art is driven portrait 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 canvas who fill the churches with their masterpieces of frescos. From Provence print and Languedoc equipment used to reach prints the stone work, which cut the connection returns to its importance and takes an unknown force with the influence of Toulouse workshops that are put in contact with the workshops of Roussillon.
All this artistic development could not have seen the paintings light without a change in politics portraits and the history of Catalonia. watercolor 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 giclee 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 painter vault, sometimes with three aisles where the aisles are covered with vaults oil painting 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 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 the churches in the valley where it abstract employs some builders landscapes 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 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 drawings (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 coarse size and polished to be carved by professional artists have their own shop instead of working on painters site as in the past. These prove to be true craftsmen, artists and teachers in the craftsmanship of stone and sculpture. At first devoted solely to the corbels and cornices of the short time since they saw carving windows, rosettes, portals, capitals and tympanum. Aboutaam The decoration of the numerous emerging cloisters are rampant. The capitals of the columns are enriched with topics poster historian, a product of the imagination of those great masters.

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