2012-05-03 Monasterio Viejo o Bajo, San Juan de Pena, Huesca, España 14

            The capitals of the cloister
In the late eleventh century are a set of themed cloister capitals of fantastic animals and some geometric and floral motifs which highlights the scrolls. A second group, consisting of twenty capitals, was commissioned in the last third of the twelfth century the master of San Juan de la Peña , author anonymous, also known as Master of Agüero, probably to replace an earlier one. The small enclosure featuring an enclosure diaphanous shaped arches separated by columns. The arches were topped with borders with typical jaqués tread geometry. The Master has a program where they appear on biblical scenes including the Annunciation to the shepherds, the Nativity, the Annunciation, Epiphany, Baptism and Circumcision of Jesus, the Last Supper, episodes of Cain and Abel, the Creation of Adam and Eva and his reproof and conviction to work. Surely the only developed Agüero master the capitals for two wings of the cloister since the late twelfth century the monastery came into decline. The iconographic program posed the 26 capitals to retain focus seems Salvation through Faith choosing the most significant episodes for this.
It works with bas almost all dominated by a horror vacui contortions caused very marked in some figures that exceed the frame itself as an arm taking in the scene of Jesus and the Apostles. The gestures are exaggerated, almost theatrical, accentuating the eyes and mouth, and giving narration to scenes. As for the forms, they undergo geometric patterns that dominate from the configuration of the face or the folds of drapery, to the movement of horses or the same water being poured from a jug to another.
The Maestro Aguero , also called the Master of San Juan de la Peña , it was a sculptor and architect active in the region of the Five Towns (Aragon) , Spain , during the Romanesque in the second half of the twelfth century . His work coincides with the reign of Alfonso II of Aragon (1162-1196). He held a workshop that worked throughout the region, and highlighted by a typology based architectural masonry and numerous buttresses . Significant and features are the covers, in which he worked got a rare monumentality. Also highlighted by large sculptures that decorated the facades and eardrums , with so-called insect eyes , disproportionate and striking with the rest of the body.
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His work is found in other places, as in the old monastery of San Juan de la Peña , in the cloister of San Pedro the old ( Huesca ), and in the church of Santa María la Real, in Sangüesa ( Navarra ). In the Five Towns area highlight their work in the church of Santiago in Aguero , Church of San Gil ( Moon ), Church of San Salvador ( Luesia ), Church of St. Michael the Archangel ( Biota ), Church of St. Saviour ( Ejea of the Knights ), Church of St. Nicholas ( The Frago ), Church of San Antón ( Taussig ) and church of San Felices ( Uncastillo ). wp
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Taken in: España / Aragón / San Juan de la Pena (show map)

Taken on: May 10, 2013

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