ART | cardonacanonica

Interior Architecture:

The canonical has characteristic elements of the Catalan Romanesque style elements of Lombard

too (style from the north of Italy, of the Lombard) characterizing Catalan Romanesque art. The

material used for the construction of this infrastructure is the stone and the system is carried out

with the architrave around. The presence of a podium by the lords of Cardona, in fact unusual

churches in southern Europe.The interior is divided into three naves, a nave and two aisles smaller

size, making the nave 51 meters long by 23.50 meters wide and 19 meters high,the difference in

height between the nave and aisles allowed to open large windows which allow much light there, in

one of the aisles still retains the original paving.There is a rather short transept, but this can be seen

through the typical Latin cross.At the end of each ship are three semicircular apse end that vary by

size. A curiosity is that when the build was not designed on a human scale, which leaves a building

of more than 19 meters, leaving gaping anyone who visits it.

Under the apse there is a crypt (crypt of St. Jaume), the old church down. It has three naves and

access stairs was originally sides. The cover is a groin vault. In the crypt are guarding the relics of

Saint Vincent, head of San Sebastian and Santa Espina. Also acted in the sixteenth century chapter

house and make it a new access.

Exterior architecture:

At the entrance of the atrium are canonical, burial place of the Lords of Cardona. It is the only place

where the canonical recovered Romanesque and Gothic paintings.

During the War of Succession atrium was gunpowder, which damaged the paintings.

In the canonical extrerior the remains of a Gothic cloister of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

linking the offices of the canonical and the palace of the lords-counts of Cardona. At the end of the

twentieth century (1986 and 1998) carried out the reconstruction of the courtyard and the Gothic

cloister. Outside there are elements such as the Lombard style arches.

Sculpture:

Inside the pantheons are exhibited Canonical Duke Ferran I and his wife Francisca Manrique de

Lara (circa 1539) and Count Joan Ramon Folch I (1668).

Painting:

Most of the Romanesque painting inside the temple has not survived to our time. The exceptions are

some 12th century paintings –murals, French in style- from the atrium that are now preserved in the

MNAC. Their themes are Majesty, the presentation in the Temple and the Flagellation. Apart from

these, the MNAC and the Episcopal Museum of Vic are also home to some 14th and 15th century

Gothic paintings by Ferrer and Arnau Bassa and Pere Vall.

At Episcopal Museum of Vic exposed compartments of dela canonical altarpiece of St. Vincent,

the painter Pedro Cardona Valley, the beginning of the fifteenth century.