Queen as King traces the origins of San Isidoro in Leon as a royal monastic complex, following its progress as the site changed from a small eleventh-century palatine chapel housed in a double monastery to a great twelfth-century pilgrimage church served by Augustinian canons. Its most groundbreaking contribution to the history of art is the recovery of the lost patronage of Queen Urraca (reigned 1109-1126). Urraca maintained yet subverted her family's tradition of patronage on the site: to understand her history is to hold the key to the art and architecture of San Isidoro. This new approach to San Isidoro and its patronage allows a major Romanesque monument to be understood more fully than before.
- ISBN10 9004152970
- ISBN13 9789004152977
- Publish Date 12 September 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English
- URL brill.com/product_id26207