Published on the occasion of an itinerant exhibition held at the Citè de l'architecture et du patrimoine-musée des monuments français, Paris, France, Mar. 16-May 16, 2010, at the Braccio di Carlo Magno, Vatican City, June 3-Aug. 1, 2010, and at the Monasterio de San Martiño Pinario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Aug. 15-Oct. 15, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-428).
Contents:
The reason for a traveling exhibition : Diego Gelmírez, genius and traveling spirit of Romanesque / Manuel Castiñeiras -- Compostela and Europe. Didacus Gelmirius, patron of the arts : Compostela's long journey : from the periphery to the center of Romanesque art / Manuel Castiñeiras -- Compostela. Culture and learning in Compostela and the way of Saint James / Adeline Rucquoi ; The basilica in Compostela and the way of pilgrimage / John Williams ; Codex Calixtinus : the book of the Church of Compostela / Klaus Herbers ; Illustration in the Codex Calixtinus / Alison Stones ; Gelmírez's pious robbery / José María Díaz Fernández ; The survival and destruction of Gelmírez's altar in the modern age / Miguel Taín Guzmán ; A granite shaft possibly from a column on the Paradise Front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela / Francisco Singul ; The fortune of Diego Gelmírez in the cultural tradition of Galician nationalism / Ramón Villares -- Europe. The Gregorian reform and origins of Romanesque / Arturo Carlo Quintavalle ; The Basilica of Saint-Sernin at Toulouse and the question of the carved tympani / Quitterie Cazes ; The art of the Pilgrims' Road to Santiago and Cluny / José Luis Senra Gabriel y Galán ; Nostos : Ulysses, Compostela and the ineluctable modality of the visible / Francisco Prado-Vilar ; Gelmírez and the cult of Saint James in Italy / Rosa Vázquez ; Diego Gelmírez's journey through the collections of the musée des Monuments français, Paris / Jean-Marc Hofman, Annaig Chatain.
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