Santa Maria de Lara
the church Santa Maria de Lara with Quintanilla of mow Viñas is located at about thirty kilometers in the south of Burgos in the hamlet of Quintanilla of mow Viñas, of the village of Cuevas de San Clemente.
Great seniority of this Ermitage - in which it majority of the archeologists recognizes a building Visigoth of the 7th century - confers a considerable archaeological value to him.
In a currently solitary landscape, but which was well populated during the late Antiquité, Roman vestiges of villæ being rather numerous there.
The plan of construction is known thanks to the archaeological excavations since there remains only the quadrangular Abside external and the central part of the cross . In the beginning, this plan was of cruciform or pseudo-basilicale form, with three naves, a free transept and the central part of crossing.
The decoration carved outside is laid out in superimposed horizontal lines. The topics, which concentrate especially on reasons vegetable, bunches of grapes, sheets, figurative animalists and geometrical, including the monograms, testify to knowledge that the sculptors Visigoths certain Eastern productions had.
Inside, the carved decoration is preserved throughout the triumphal arch with a vegetable ornamentation, being pressed on blocks capitals with the representations of the moon, the sun and the four evangelists.
It is obvious that the workshop or the sculptors who carried out the project of Quintanilla of mow Viñas developed a precise iconographic program which escapes partly, but which is estimated in relation to cosmology neoplatonician, where the construction of the world is explained in a metaphorical way.
Christ Sun Transom right-hand side of the triumphal arch of the church Santa Maria.
On both sides of a vegetable reason, treated symmetrically, the plank comprises faced birds (guinea fowls) which fit in the circles that draw the rinceaux ones stylized. On three levels, these planks which make the turn of the building in the regular beds of the apparatus seem to enclose architecture within an abundant decorative repertory.
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