Catalan art
Catalan art . In Catalonia and the territories of the counts of Barcelona, art flowered in the early Middle Ages and continued to flourish through the Renaissance. Some of the finest surviving altar-panel paintings of the Romanesque period are Catalan. Many of these are preserved in the Museo del Parque, Barcelona, together with numerous frescoes transferred from the apses of Romanesque churches. The small churches, often bare of sculptural ornament, were elaborately painted throughout, although usually only the decoration of the apse has survived. A fine example from Santa María del Mar, Barcelona, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Superb examples of architectural sculpture also exist in many Catalan churches of the period. Also Romanesque is the famous illuminated Bible from the abbey of Farfa, now in the Vatican. Catalan art shares most of the characteristics of the international Romanesque style. A more obviously regional character is found in the Catalan painting of the 14th cent. and in the work of Ferrer Bassa and Jaime Serra, although Sienese influence is noteworthy. With the 15th cent., particularly in the paintings of Jaime Huguet, of Jaime Rafael, and Pablo Vergós, and of other masters, the school reached its maturity in a profuse and highly decorative religious art of great beauty. Only with Luis Dalmáu in the middle of the century did direct Flemish influence appear, and it never gained ascendancy. The great period of Catalan painting as such ended with the 15th cent., although the province has never ceased to produce great individual artists. Several prominent artists of the 20th cent. were of Catalonian origin, notably Juan Gris, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí.
Bibliography: See C. R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting (9 vol., 1930-47), Vol. VII; G. Kubler and M. Soria, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal (1959).
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Mies: The Window Framed.
Magazine article from: Fabrications; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...was associated with the Vitruvian notion of firmitas, meaning that the edifice must look firm and strong. The intercolumniation permeating Greek architecture makes an opening reaching to another space, the agora, whilst the enclosure remains...
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intercolumniation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Cathedral, London. Doric intercolumniation is not controlled by diameters...Greek Doric Hellenic intercolumniation normally had one triglyph...entrance. Hellenistic intercolumniation was generally wider...so that the adjoining intercolumniations are smaller than usual...
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Doric Order
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Hellenistic buildings the intercolumniation is usually wider...over the centre intercolumniation. In Greek Doric...resulting in narrower intercolumniations between the corner...with identical intercolumniations, even at the corners...triglyphs over each intercolumniation although there...
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Roman architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...high (with 3 triglyphs over each intercolumniation ), whilst the distinctive type of...was the tendency to a much wider intercolumniation than that of Hellenic buildings...the Orders (applied with very wide intercolumniations), an example of which was the triumphal...
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Hellenistic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...buildings often gained in lightness of effect through a wider intercolumniation than that found in Hellenic work. The Doric Order , for...less severe (often with two or more triglyphs over each intercolumniation), becoming less ‘pure’ in the...
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Hermogenes
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...objecting to Doric because of the problem of combining equal intercolumniation with the triglyph frieze at the corners. He seems to...surrounded by the peristyle ). He also promoted the eustyle intercolumniation (with space between columns equal to 2¼ column...
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