This large, attractive, and comprehensive book on the cloister of Santo Domingo de Silos, among the most familiar and most compelling of the major Romanesque sites in northern Spain, represents a significant contribution to the study of medieval art and architecture. The magnificent illustrations and rich bibliography alone would make the book an essential resource for the study of European visual culture from the decades around 1100, an astonishing period that witnessed a veritable explosion in architectural sculpture. The probable early date and remarkable creativity of the sculpture at Silos had already established the cloister as a focal point for the study of Romanesque art in the days of Arthur Kingsley Porter and Meyer Schapiro, and Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo’s thorough volume provides a useful, up-to-date compendium of primary and secondary sources that reflects the richness of the artwork and the scholarly tradition associated with it. Palace of the Mind...

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