Giudicale

Villamar, Romanesque church of Saint Peter. Photo by RAS Press Office, from Sardegna DL

The political will to free himself from Byzantium came in the 9th century to determine the conditions for the birth of judicial institutions in Sardinia. This phenomenon could only determine, of course, important consequences also on a cultural and therefore artistic level.

Porto Torres, Basilica of San Gavino, interior. Photo by Marco Ceraglia, from Digital Resources Sardegna IDV

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Works of art from judicial civilization

The political will to be freed from Byzantium came in the 9th century to determine the conditions for the birth of judicial institutions in Sardinia. Obviously, this phenomenon could only have important consequences on a...

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Church of Santa Maria di Tergu, detail. Photo by Roberto Muroni, from Catalogo BBCC RAS

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Romanesque sculptures

The almost total absence, in the artistic landscape of Giudical Sardinia, of autonomously configured works of sculpture, that is, capable of establishing a relationship with space that frees them from the strict dependen...

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The Romanesque frescoes

Based on the information found in the sources, the consistency of medieval painting in Sardinia must have been much greater, even in relation to works on panel, as well as frescoes: the former lost in their entirety, the...

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Bulzi, church of San Sebastiano, deposition

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Gothic-Italian art

The Tyrrhenian circulation of artists and their artifacts must refer to the export to Sardinia of sculptures and paintings produced in central Italy, in particular the polychrome wooden statues that make up the “Depositi...

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The Ottana shovel

Due to its geographical location between Spain and Italy, Sardinia has often been an essential stop along maritime traffic and in the flow of Mediterranean culture between Barcelona and Naples. To document this centralit...

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