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Le développement du décor monumental et la conquête de l’extérieur des églises : sagreres et façades catalanes au cours de la première moitié du XIe siècle

2011; PERSEE Program; Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/cafan.2011.2113

0575-061X

Alessia Trivellone,

Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books

The Development of Monumental Decoration and the Conquest of the Outward Parts of the Churches : Sagreres and Catalonian Church Frontages in the First Half of the 11th Century. This study proposes first of all a survey of the external church decoration development in West Europe. Different kinds of external decoration (sculptures, wall decorative brickwork, blind arcades, bronze doors) appear between the 10th and the 11th Centuries. This development is considered together with the extension of the sacredness outside the medieval churches, at the same period. Then, the article deals with the medieval façades in Cataluna of the first half of the 11th Century, which are contemporary with the apparition of sagreres, the local immunity areas around the churches. A new interpretation of the lintels of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines and Saint-André-de-Sorède is also proposed. Expressing a strong Church/church exaltation, their iconography is perfectly coherent with a lintel function. The Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines lintel had a great influence upon the later arrangement of the entire façade.