San Xoán de Vilanova and the Lombardist question

Abstract

The church of San Xoán de Vilanova (Miño, A Coruña, Galicia) stands out in the Romanesque heritage of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, because it is one of the few examples in the region of an architecture that uses a Lombardist constructive language. With the present work we will analyze this historiographical question and we will study the temple in relation to the monumental context, with the objective of knowing which were the models and who were the actors that could promote the presence of unknown forms in the constructive tradition of the western Hispanic kingdoms.