Sardinian-Hispanic

Local tradition and Iberian innovations

In Sardinia, Gothic-Catalan architecture was embedded in Romanesque and Gothic-Italian types of construction, giving life to characteristic and original solutions.

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Gothic-Catalan architecture

The Gothic-Catalan construction type, developed in Catalonia, was introduced to Sardinia in the 14th century by the Aragonese during the military conquest of the island. For the erection of the churches, it included a si...

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Mannerist and Baroque architecture

The process of centralization and control of public life initiated by Philip II of Spain marked the end of the prerogatives and administrative autonomy of medieval origin, which the island had continued to enjoy during t...

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Civil architecture

In the Aragonese era, the fashion spread, coming from Catalonia, to surround doors and windows with elegant stone exhibitions in order to enrich the façades of buildings that are usually undecorated. The phenomenon first...

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Military architecture

As Foiso Fois and Gianni Montaldo write in their respective works on coastal towers in Sardinia, published in 1981 and 1992, the defense system of coastal villages represents the response of the Spanish Crown to the prob...

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The picapedrers

In relation to the professional figures who work in plastic art in Sardinia, archival documents from the 17th and 18th centuries distinguish between the 'sculptor' (or 'sculptor'), who is paid for the execution of wooden...

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