Las pinturas de la Iglesia "baja" de San Juan de la Peña: Vínculos pictóricos entre el Poitou y Aragón durante el siglo XII

Abstract

The style of the Romanesque wall-paintings from the so-called 'low chuch' in the monastery of San Juan de la Peña (Huesca) has been related to the Burgundian wall-painting and, specially, to those of the Monk's Chapel in Berzé-la-Ville. This study changes this theory. In fact, the wall-paintings of San Juan de la Peña Nave a Glose relation with the French 'wall-painting school'of the Poitou, active during the last decades of the 11th and the beginnings of the 12th century. This new vision of the Aragonese wall-paintings gives a new dimension to the Spanish Romanesque painting related to the painting of the Poitou. This relationship between the Aragonese and the Poitevine paintings reveals the earliest chronology and the better pictorial quality of San Juan de la Peña respect to the other Aragonese and Catalan wall-paintings influenced by the Romanesque Arts from the Poitou.