Struggle as Image and Symbol in Spanish Romanesque Parish Porticoes

The extensive bibliography on medieval architecture highlights that parish church porticoes are one of the most singular features of the Spanish Romanesque tradition. These structures, which regulated the transition to the Aula Dei, provided villagers with a safe space for conducting liturgical cere...

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Published in:Arts (Basel) 2024-12, Vol.13 (6), p.186
Main Author: Salgado Pantoja, José Arturo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Centuries
Christian architecture and function
Christianity
civic-liturgical spaces
episcopal authority
images of struggle
porticoes
Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Romanesque
Romanesque art
Sacraments
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Summary:The extensive bibliography on medieval architecture highlights that parish church porticoes are one of the most singular features of the Spanish Romanesque tradition. These structures, which regulated the transition to the Aula Dei, provided villagers with a safe space for conducting liturgical ceremonies and rituals, administering sacraments, and burying the dead. However, parish porticoes soon took on other uses of a secular nature. Thanks to their social role and privileged location, they became ideal spaces for admonishing and instructing the faithful through well-chosen visual repertoires. This article explores these functional and iconographic aspects through the lens of struggle: on the one hand, the earthly confrontation between ecclesiastical authorities and village communities as to the functions of the porticoes, and on the other, the allegorical struggle depicted in their reliefs, whose admonitory motives can be linked to the attributes and meaning of the architectural framework.
ISSN:2076-0752
2076-0752
DOI:10.3390/arts13060186