Nuevas propuestas sobre la escultura románica en Navarra. Algunos ejemplos inéditos de intercambios artísticos en el ámbito pirenaico [New proposals on Romanesque sculpture in Navarre. Some unpublished examples of artistic exchanges in the Pyrenean area]

Abstract

From the study of Daniel in the lions’ den episode, we propose four unknown cases for assessing the integration of Navarre in the early Middle Ages in a Pyrenean area, frequent field of model and artistic form transmission. One of the ateliers of sculptors who worked at St. Peter ad Vincula of Echano made three of the capitals at Sarbazan church, in Landes. We also found strong composition and stylistic links between sculpture of St. Peter of Aibar and the church of Mouchan (Gers). Certain parallels with Catalan works, allow to propose a virtual recreation of the portal of the former church of St. Nicolas of Sangüesa. Finally, it is proposed, based on the central France iconographic models of this episode, the identification as Daniel for one of the figures in the spandrels of the portal of Santa María la Real de Sangüesa.