Catalan Painting: Fascination of the Romanesque by Joan Ainaud De Lasarte

Catalan Painting: Fascination of the Romanesque by Joan Ainaud De Lasarte\nGood/Very Good condition overall. Some minor wear to cardboard sleeve. Book itself is in Very Good condition.\nThe historic region of Catalonia, forming the northeastern corner of Spain, stretches from the Pyrenees southward along the Mediterranean. From the ninth to the thirteenth century, the principality of Catalonia, long ruled by the Counts of Barcelona, was an important place of passage and coomunication between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe. Its privileged position is reflected in the astonishing vitality of Catalan art, from the early Middle Ages onward. It includes some of the international Romanesque style: wall paintings in churches and monasteries, altar frontals, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, and painted beams and ceiling boards from private palaces. It is a colorful art combining popular appeal with great originality.\nTHIS ITEM CAN BE POSTED/DELIVERED, BUT PLEASE ASK F.