The Fundación Ramón Areces presents this afternoon at 7 p.m. at its headquarters (Calle Vitrubio, 5), the Encyclopaedia of the Romanesque in Portugal, created and edited by the Fundación Santa María la Real, in an event in which José María Pérez “Peridis” (founder of the Foundation) and part of the team that has materialised the work will participate. After five years of work by a multidisciplinary team of 20 professionals, the Encyclopaedia has been completed.
The work brings together the almost 300 Romanesque testimonies preserved in the neighbouring country. Three perfectly illustrated volumes that are added to a much more extensive project, the Encyclopaedia of the Romanesque in the Iberian Peninsula, on which work has been going on for almost three decades.
Thus, with the support of the Fundación Ramón Areces and the previous experience in Spain, the challenge of documenting all the Romanesque testimonies of Portugal began in 2018, starting from a large group of previous studies and research, but updating, unifying and revising them. A team of 20 professionals, coordinated by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, was entrusted with the task.
Five years to compile the almost 300 Romanesque testimonies preserved in Portugal. Trips, marathon research sessions in archives and libraries, compilation of bibliography and, of course, intense photographic and planimetric documentation of each building or testimony.
The encyclopaedia is an exceptional work that compiles, above all, testimonies or religious buildings: churches, chapels, monasteries, cathedrals or funerary monuments; but without forgetting elements of civil architecture, such as castles or bridges; documentary works, codices and even pieces of sculpture or painting that are conserved in museums and specialised centres. To attend, you must register in advance by clicking on this link.
