Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Welcome Note For Wedding Invitation

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Susinos Paramo. Home

Susinos Paramo. Overview of the cover

Susinos of Páramo, Burgos. About Villadiego.

Beautiful and typical Castilian village of stone houses look like small fortresses and church on top. Home

archivolts with capitals and decorated. Universal themes and neighborhood animals faced, two-tailed mermaid, human head. In the archivolt, two figures, one of which looks like a bishop or, perhaps, rather an abbot (it takes staff but mitra).

Susinos Paramo. Abad

archivolt The rest of the objects fill it in the guides listed as "truncated cones." If we approach a bit, however, we see that the above have scales and tail. Cones seem to tally, and geometricized sketched.

Susinos Paramo. Pineapple

But then also, if we turn to lay down the capitals will see that several of them reappear in the same cone as a recurrent element. You can almost say that the subject of the cover are the pineapples. "Symbols Hidden? "Occurrence of the author? "Unable to do anything else? ...

Moreover, the composition of the capitals, though simple, is curious. The holes in the main scene are filled with all sorts of elements, among which are the cones, but there are animal heads, ladder ...

In particular I am struck by the capital which represents a double-tailed mermaid. The theme is common in the area and it appears, for example, Arenillas de Villadiego and Villaute, but here the siren is accompanied, at left, a staircase, and his right, objects or beings who can not quite identify. I can not think what meaning this might have.

Susinos Paramo. Capitel

By the way, great protections of the windows of the church. Above all, the color.

Susinos Paramo. Integration of old and new

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Sample Welcome Wedding Page

BURGOS MUSEUM IN 1935 - II

Because, for one reason or another, I have not been able to devote much to the Romanesque or the blog recently, while preparing another post with more substance, I put here a collection of sheets of Catalog Provincial Archaeological Museum of Burgos, Matias Martinez Burgos , 1935, I published the previous entry in other description front of Santo Domingo de Silos.

are pieces from different periods: Romanesque, but early Christian, Visigothic or Caliphate.

Plate 27. Early Christian Sarcophagus (ss. V - VI). Quintanabureba

Plate 28. Visigothic altar Support (s. VII). Quintanilla de las Viñas

Plate 30. Arqueta Caliphate (1026, amended s. XII). Santo Domingo de Silos, manufactured in the workshops of Cuenca

Plate 31.

same casket

Print 32. Same pit.

Art 43. Casket Romanesque (twelfth century). Santo Domingo de Silos

Art 44. Early Gothic Madonna and child (s. XIII)

Print 55. Bible Cardeña call (XII - XIII). Adoration of the Magi

Print 56. Bible itself. Story of Adam and Eve



Todas las piezas se pueden ver hoy en día en el Museo salvo la Biblia, custodiada en el Archivo Provincial.