Baldaquí de Ribes- Museu Episcopal de Vic

The baldachin of Ribes ( ca, baldaquí de Ribes) is a fragmentary altar-canopy in the

Romanesque style Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque style, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 11th century, this later ...

now in the Museu Episcopal de Vic, Episcopal Museum of Vic. It is the masterpiece of the so-called "Ripoll workshop" (''taller de Ripoll''). It dates to the second quarter of the twelfth century. The surviving fragment is only one fourth of the size of the original, which contained a central mandorla with the figure of Christ and four angels on each side. The style of the baldachin shows strong south French influence, and borrows many features from the tympanum of Moissac Abbey, especially in the robes of Christ. The robes of the angels, however, and the hairstyles of all the figures are more typically Iberian.Walter William Spencer Cook, Walter W. S. Cook, "The Earliest Painted Panels of Catalonia (I)", ''Art Bulletin'' 5:4 (1923), 96–101.

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