Santa María de la Sierra: an interesting ornamental option within the Cistercian art of Castile-Leon

Despite the well known Cistercian reluctance to figurative representation in their monasteries, the vegetal ornamental patterns precept was not as preferred as thought nor it was as honoured as expected in some of them. One of the exceptions that prove the rule to Cistercian aniconism is found in th...

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Main Author: M. Aitana Monge Zapata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2012-01-01
Series:Anales de Historia del Arte
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Online Access:http://revistasculturales.ucm.es/index.php/ANHA/article/view/37467