During the Middle Ages in Christian kingdoms, there were three main artistic styles: Mozarabic art featured a lack of unity, horseshoe arches, ribbed domes, and thick-walled buildings. Manuscript miniature flourished. Asturian pre-Romanesque art used rounded arches and half barrel vaults with pillars instead of columns in basilica-style churches. Mudejar art was a unique Iberian style that blended Islamic and Christian influences, featuring brick, plaster, tiles, and carved wood ceilings in buildings.

1. ART IN THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
MOZARABIC, ASTURIAN, MUDEJAR
Agustín Fernández Alarcón, prof. Geografía e
Historia

2. MOZARABIC
• Lack of unity
• Use of horseshoe arch and ribbed domes
• Small buildings with thick walls
• Different kinds of plots (floor plans)
• Great development of miniature in
manuscripts

3. Bobastro church (Malaga)

4. Santa María de Melque (Toledo)

5. San Miguel de Escalada (Leon)

6. San Cebrián de Mazote (Valladolid)

7. San Miguel de Celanova (Orense)

8. Beato de Liébana

9. Asturian pre-romanesque art
• Use of rounded arch and half barrel vault
• Use of pillars instead of columns
• Basilical plots usually with three aisles, with
apses
• Thick walls

10. Santianes de Pravia

11. San Julián de los Prados

12. Santa María del Naranco

13. San Miguel de Lillo

14. San Salvador de Valdedios

15. Mudejar art
• Native and unique art of the Iberian Peninsula
• It is a meeting point between islamic and
christian art (mainly with Romanesque and
Gothic)
• Use of bricks, plaster, glazed tiles, lime and
timber in buildings (carved- wood ceilings are
very usual)

16. San Tirso (Sahagún)

17. Teruel’s cathedral

18. San Martin’s Tower (Teruel)

19. Transito synagogue (Toledo)

20. Santa María la Blanca (Toledo)

21. Reales Alcázares (Seville)

22. Coca castle (Segovia)