PRESENTACIÓN TIZA Y PIZARRA

ERASMUS 2022-2023

SPANISH ARCHITECTURE AND MONUMENTS

Architecture and art

Renaissance architecture

Mudejar architecture

Romanic architecture

Gothic architecture

Pre-Romanic architecture

Roman architecture

INDEX

ARCHITECTURE AND ART

In Spain, there have been lots of civilizations. Each civillization has their own culture, which involves the architecture, the food, the clothes etc. Right now in Spain, we have about 12 different types of architecture:

• Roman and pre-Roman architecture
• Pre-Romanesque architecture
• Romanesque architecture
• Gothic architecture
• Mudejar architecture
• Hispano-Muslim architecture
• Renaissance architecture
• Baroque architecture
• Bourbon's architecture
• Neoclassical architecture
• XIX century architecture
• XX century architecture

In the next pages, I'm going to talk about some of them.

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

Roman amphitheatre in Málaga

The Roman Empire made his entrance in Spain in the year 218 BC. They built a huge variety of monuments, from aqueducts to amphitheatres. But they all had the same style and characteristics:

• Huge monuments with spiritual meanings
• Lots of differents materials were used like: wood, concrete, bricks etc
• Constant use of vaults
• The monuments weren't just for decoration, but for practical use.

PRE-ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE

Asturian church

It started after the fall of the Roman Empire. In Spain, it is represented by:

• Visigothic architecture: wooden roofs and barrel vaults. Bricks were not used, and neither were buttresses.
• Asturian architecture. constant use of vaults. Unlike the Visigothic architecture, bricks and buttresses were used.
• Mozarab architecture. absence of external decorations. Dominance in the technic of ashlars.
• Architecture of repopulation: Cristian's kingdoms in the north of Spain. Use of the horsehoe arch and aliz.

ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE

Basilica of Saint Isidoro of Leon

It started in the XI century. The characteristics were:

• Perfect archs
• Barrel vaults
• Decorated principal entrances
• Solid walls
• Small and geometrical ornaments
• Doors next to windows
• No natural light
• Combination of curved and straight lines
• Funeral chapels
• Capitals in the columns

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

Burgo's cathedral

Style that appeared in Spain during the medieval times. It started in the XII century. Its origin is in France. Its characteristics were:

• Pointed arch
• Ribbed vaults
• Islamic influence
• Less verticality and luminosity
• More widht
• Stained glass windows
• Buttress
• Religious images

MUDEJAR ARCHITECTURE

Teruel's cathedral

It was developed in the Cristians kingdom of the peninsula. Influenced by the Hispano-Muslim architecture. In León and Aragón, the Mudejar art is really concentrated. Characteristics:

• Bland and cheap materials
• Small ashlars
• Flat roofs
• No vaults
• Lots of synagogues
• Ceramics were introduced and they became very popular
• Bricks were used in walls and pilars

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

El Escorial

It starts with the Catholic Kings in the XV century. It comes from Italy. Characteristics:

• Desire of of making perfects builidings from a tecnical point of view
• Simple, simetrical and clear architecture
• Facades
• Pilasters
• Garlands
• Candelabrums
• Medallions

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