Romantic Identity, Nationalism, and the Understanding of the Advent of Romanesque Art in Christian Spain
Janice Mann
During the 1920s two well known scholars, Émile Mâle and Arthur Kingsley Porter, sparred over advent of Romanesque sculpture on Iberian peninsula in a quarrel that is familiar to historians art. Borrowing their approach from Joseph Bédier's theories about formation chansons de geste, both scholars proposed pilgrimage Santiago stimulated creation style by carrying free flow artists, architects, artistic ideas one region next. The date national origin artists who created were main points contention. Both men impression homogeneous art architecture formed an cross-pollination, which occurred without regard for indigenous cultural forms, ethnic identity, regional boundaries, or geographic obstacles. Once hypothesized, however, this politically neutral international was deployed line with various agendas authors. This paper explores personal, methodological, ideological convictions shaped Porter's Mâle's scholarly views roads as site exceptional creativity. Their scholarship, I contend, reveals much them ethos it does middle ages.
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