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Also sponsored by the Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln e.V. (Friends of Romanesque Churches of Cologne) are twelve Romanesque churches outside of the Old Town, as well as St Peter's Church (Cologne):
Iglesias rupestres. Olleros de Pisuerga y otras de su entorno. (in Spanish) Edilesa, 2007. ISBN 978-84-8012618-2; Bango Torviso, Isidro G. Tesoros de España. Vol. III. Románico. (in Spanish) Espasa Calpe, 2000. ISBN 84-239-6674-7; Bango Torviso, Isidro G. Historia del Arte de Castilla y León. Tomo II. Arte Románico.
Chapel of San Pedro de Osma. The Shroud of San Pedro de Osma is a magnificent piece of 12th-century silk, measuring about 50 by 43 centimetres. [6] Found in the Cathedral of Burgo de Osma within the tomb of San Pedro de Osma, it was used in the burial process to wrap the bones of San Pedro de Osma, a bishop who died in 1109. [7]
Fresco of Christ Pantocrator from Sant Climent de Taüll, acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of Romanesque art. During the early 20th century there was a major effort to study and catalog the Romanesque wall paintings in the churches of the Vall de Boí area.
It was in areas that had been recently added to Portuguese territory, thus more open to foreign influence, places where royal and ecclesiastical sponsorship were stronger, where French monastical communities settled in and foreign artists produced their works (like Coimbra and Lisbon), that we find the most artistically complete forms of Romanesque.
La Vall de Boí (Western Catalan: [la ˈbaʎ ðe βoˈi], formerly known as Barruera) is a municipality and narrow, steep-sided valley in Catalonia.It lies in the Alta Ribagorça county in the Alt Pirineu region, on the edges of the Pyrenees.
The Santiago de Compostela Arch cathedral Basilica (Spanish and Galician: Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela) is part of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and is an integral component of the Santiago de Compostela World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain.
The Painted Churches in the Troödos Region (Greek: Τοιχογραφημένοι ναοί στην περιοχή του όρους Τρόοδος, romanized: Toichografiménoi naoí stin periochí tou órous Tróodos) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Troödos Mountains of central Cyprus.