From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos

Abstract

In Spain, unlike France, the Romanesque styles of architecture and imagery were formed in almost abrupt transition from the preceding native styles. Whereas in France it is difficult to demarcate, even roughly, a Romanesque from a pre-Romanesque art because of the slow and continuous growth of the forms since the tenth century, in Spain, outside of Catalonia, it is evident that a new art appears in the second third of the eleventh century, and that the traditional native style is soon replaced by it. The sudden emergence of Romanesque art in Spain has been explained by circumstances outside art: the activity of French Cluniac monks in Spain transformed the Spanish church and, together with the French alliances of the Spanish kings, made possible the introduction of the Romanesque style of France into León, Galicia, Aragon and Castille.

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