La desaparecida portada románica del monasterio de Santa María de Carracedo (León)

Abstract

This research deals with the remains from the now lost Romanesque north entrance of the monastic church of Santa Maria de Carracedo (El Bierzo, Leon), specifically with six capitals and two column-statues depicting King Alfonso VII and Abbot Florencio, true renovators of the friary from the year 1138 onwards. The statues are analysed and dated, as well as located within the church, and their symbolic and iconographic dimensions are considered. The patronage of the Royal House of Leon in this almost lost work is also demonstrated, together with the participation of artists already familiar with the international sculpture of the basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris.