Painting
Frescoes of San Baudelio de Berlanga
Anonymous (Spanish Romanesque), 12th century
Show the style
Romanesque · chronological order 3
Where to see it
Prado Museum
Madrid · Spain
Only part of them. The rest is spread across museums in the United States.
A set of wall paintings in the Mozarabic-Romanesque hermitage of San Baudelio (Casillas de Berlanga, Soria), remarkable for its secular programme: hunting scenes and exotic animals (an elephant, camels, falconers) mixed in with religious subjects. Part of the frescoes was sold in 1922 and stripped from the walls in 1926; today they are split between the Prado and museums in the United States (the Metropolitan, Boston, Indianapolis, Cincinnati). They are known as the Sistine Chapel of Spanish Romanesque.