Aragonese age

Assemini, chiesa di San Pietro, particolare. Foto di Elisabetta Messina, da Sardegna DL

The Catalan-Aragonese domination conditioned the socio-political structure but also the cultural characteristics of art in Sardinia, determining the persistence of Gothic-Catalan architecture and the Late-Gothic Hispanic polyptych up to the late 17th century. The shape - an altarpiece - is structured in a complex altarpiece, which combines architectural, sculptural and pictorial elements.

Torre della Pegna e Punta Cristallo. Foto di Renato Brotzu, da Sardegna DL

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Catalans and Aragonese in Sardinia

During the fourteenth century, archival information has been found relating to Catalan painters active in Sardinia and to altarpieces painted for the island, but no work has survived. The oldest altarpieces that have com...

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Aritzo, prigioni spagnole “Sa Bovida”, esterno. Foto di Irene Ollargiu, 2007, da Risorse digitali Sardegna

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The Aragonese conquest

In 1297, Pope Boniface VIII established the “Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae” from scratch, feuding it to the sovereign of Aragon James II. However, the territorial conquest of Sardinia began only in 1323 with the landing o...

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La Battaglia di Sanluri, di Giovanni Marghinotti

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The Battle of Sanluri

The long war for domination over Sardinia between the kingdom of Arborea and the Crown of Aragon, started by Mariano IV de Bas-Serra in September 1353 and continued by his heirs, was interspersed with short periods of tr...

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