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The Romanesque cloister of Silos

Santo Domingo de Silos, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

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The Romanesque cloister of Silos

Monument · Santo Domingo de Silos, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

Begun shortly after 1080, the lower cloister of the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos) brings together sixty-four historiated capitals, with biblical, animal and plant motifs, and the reliefs on its corners, the work of two different masters. The first, active in the southeast corner, is responsible for the Ascension and Pentecost; the second, possibly of Galician origin and linked to the style of Santiago de Compostela by the abundance of drapery folds, for the Tree of Jesse and the Annunciation. The north and east galleries of the lower cloister have fourteen arches on each side, supported by double-shaft columns and ornamental capitals in the Romanesque tradition.

Photo: Jose Luis Filpo Cabana (CC BY 3.0)

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