Description
Model of the basilica of San Miguel de Lillo, made of stone reconstituted with resin.
Dimensions: 8 cm (width) x 11 cm (height) x 7 cm (depth).
Basilica of San Miguel de Lillo, Oviedo. It was built by Ramiro I around the year 848, renovating an earlier building. It is a basilica with three naves separated by arcades and a possible tripartite chevet. Here, for the first time in pre-Romanesque Asturian architecture, the column was used as a support for an arcade.
Of the original church, only the first section of the aisles and the front of the entrance, where the royal tribune was placed, remain. Of particular note are the sculpted doorjambs of the entrance door, where a consular diptych from the 6th century is used as an iconographic source. There are also interesting remains of mural painting in the Alphonsine tradition where human figures can be seen.
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