Irish Brain surgeons, Vikings who recycle and spotting mistakes in churches: Medieval News Roundup

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Irish Brain surgeons, Vikings who recycle and spotting mistakes in churches: Medieval News Roundup

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Academic seeks origin of mysterious Spanish cloister

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBm0YenX-LuX1UpAQdNQpmxZCbvNFnHNQXGFpciOXw3YiLXmbpN022KUINEPVx1s6icUoa6sG8jfRVU0jmuNJ6FYBH7HB_br4prTRTr_wIsnu_Eigj3fudm7wEk-zntE1ijt0dRA9p-g/s1600/void%25280%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBm0YenX-LuX1UpAQdNQpmxZCbvNFnHNQXGFpciOXw3YiLXmbpN022KUINEPVx1s6icUoa6sG8jfRVU0jmuNJ6FYBH7HB_br4prTRTr_wIsnu_Eigj3fudm7wEk-zntE1ijt0dRA9p-g/s320/void%25280%2529.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Could a poolside folly at a private Mediterranean resort in Spain owned by a reclusive German billionaire actually be a 12th century architectural treasure spirited away from its original home?<br /><br /> This is the historical mystery being unraveled by a medieval art expert who has been investigating a cloister that has stood since 1958 on a northeastern Spanish estate owned by wealthy German philanthropist Curt Engelhorn and his family.<br /><br /> Gerona University Medieval Art History Professor Gerardo Boto believes the cloister, now nestled in a pine forest on the estate in Palamos, some 120 km north of Barcelona in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia, could be the remains of a romanesque monastery that was originally built several hundred miles away in the central region of Castilla y León.<br /><br /> "If its authenticity is confirmed, that could help us rewrite a few aspects about Spanish romanesque," Boto told Reuters on his first visit to the cloister.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/us-art-spain-cloister-idUSBRE85C13O20120613" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Reuters</a></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><a href="http://medievalnews.blogspot.ca/2012/06/who-has-cloister-around-their-pool.html" target="_blank">Click here to read Who has a cloister around their pool? </a></b>

Academic seeks origin of mysterious Spanish cloister

Could a poolside folly at a private Mediterranean resort in Spain owned by a reclusive German billionaire actually be a 12th century archite...

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Who has a cloister around their pool?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBm0YenX-LuX1UpAQdNQpmxZCbvNFnHNQXGFpciOXw3YiLXmbpN022KUINEPVx1s6icUoa6sG8jfRVU0jmuNJ6FYBH7HB_br4prTRTr_wIsnu_Eigj3fudm7wEk-zntE1ijt0dRA9p-g/s1600/void(0).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBm0YenX-LuX1UpAQdNQpmxZCbvNFnHNQXGFpciOXw3YiLXmbpN022KUINEPVx1s6icUoa6sG8jfRVU0jmuNJ6FYBH7HB_br4prTRTr_wIsnu_Eigj3fudm7wEk-zntE1ijt0dRA9p-g/s200/void(0).jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>An exceptional 12th-century cloister has been sitting for half a decade inside the garden of a private home in Girona province without anyone knowing about it, except its owners and a few locals. Gerardo Boto, a professor of medieval art at Girona University, unveiled the discovery at a recent Barcelona art convention, where he amazed Romanesque architecture experts with a detailed description of the find, which is already being compared to the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos in Burgos. Most remarkably, it does not show up in any official inventory, nor does it enjoy cultural protection from any public agency.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/06/05/inenglish/1338897017_865476.html" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from El Pais</a></b>

Who has a cloister around their pool?

An exceptional 12th-century cloister has been sitting for half a decade inside the garden of a private home in Girona province without anyon...

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New website – Getty Research Portal – offers better access to art history resources

The Getty Research Institute launched a new website last week, the Getty Research Portal, which promises to provide universal access to digitized texts in the field of art and architectural history.<br /><br /> The Getty Research Portal is a free online search gateway that aggregates descriptive metadata of digitized art history texts, with links to fully digitized copies that are free to download. Art historians, curators, students, or anyone who is culturally curious can unearth these valuable sources of research without traveling from place to place to browse the stacks of the world’s art libraries.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/04/new-website-getty-research-portal-offers-better-access-to-art-history-resources/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net</a></b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-debuts-full-text-web-site-for-art-history-research-20120530,0,6730780.story" target="_blank">See also Getty launches full text website for art history research</a></b>

New website – Getty Research Portal – offers better access to art history resources

The Getty Research Institute launched a new website last week, the Getty Research Portal, which promises to provide universal access to digi...

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