María de los Angeles Utrero Agudo

Late-Antique and Early Medieval Hispanic Churches and the Archaeology of Architecture: Revisions and Reinterpretation of Constructions, Chronologies and Contexts

Abstract Late-Antique and Early Medieval Hispanic architecture has witnessed a considerable change in the last 15 years because of the introduction of the archaeological analysis of standing buildings and a new historical model that is open to the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula leading to changes in the architecture. As this paper demonstrates, stratigraphic recording and analysis of some of the most relevant buildings solves some questions and introduces others, but it mainly helps to introduce archaeological arguments within a debate previously dominated by stylistic criteria.

La Iglesia de San Miguel de Lillo (Asturias) Lectura de paramentos. 2006

Resumen: El estudio emprendido en las iglesias de San Miguel de Lino y en Santa Maria de Naranco llega a la conclusion fundamental de que un importante conjunto de piezas escultoricas procedentes de Santa Maria de Naranco fueron reutilizadas en la tribuna de la iglesia de Lino. Los cuatro arcos situados en las puertas de las habitaciones y las escaleras de acceso a la tribuna de la iglesia de San Miguel de Lino son piezas reutilizadas, de spolia, cuya original procedencia se encuentra en el contiguo edificio civil de Santa Maria de Naranco (848). Los estudios precisos de caracter arqueologico y artistico asi lo confirman con un alto grado de confianza. Se pueden, pues, valorar con cierta fiabilidad los elementos introducidos en la obra original y aquellos que han sido objeto de una disposicion para la que no habian sido fabricados y que cumpliran ahora una funcion de sustitucion como elementos reaprovechados. Palabras clave: spolia, tribuna regia, arquitectura aulica, arte asturiano, taller aulico. Abstract: A study of the church of San Miguel de Lino and Santa Maria de Naranco has concluded that a significant group of sculptures from Santa Maria were reused in the tribune of Lino. The four entry arches to the rooms and the stairs that give access to the tribune of the church of San Miguel de Lino are spolia from the neighbouring civil building of Santa Maria de Naranco (848). Detailed archaeological and artistic studies have confirmed this hypothesis to a high degree of certainty. We may thus reliably judge the elements that were originally in the building and those which were displaced from their original layout and have been reused as substitutes. Keywords: spolia, royal tribune, court architecure, Asturian art, court workshop.