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Tortosa, 1434: del decorativismo a la contención ornamental. Nota sobre unos arbotantes
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[spa] En este artículo se documenta un cambio de proyecto (1434) en la construcción de los arbotantes de la catedral de Tortosa, que pasan de estar fuertemente ornamentados (sobre las capillas) a mostrar contención decorativa (sobre la girola). A partir de este hecho probado, se propone la posibilidad de que más o menos en el mismo momento se decidiese dejar de ornamentar con vistosas tracerías caladas el espacio entre capillas que forma parte del doble deambulatorio del templo, elementos sin función estructural que solo aparecen en los dos primeros tramos del ábside.
[eng] This paper documents a design change that took place around 1434 in the construction of the flying buttresses of the Cathedral of Tortosa, which went from being richly ornamented above the chapels to decoratively restrained above the ambulatory. Starting with the physical evidence, the paper considers the possibility that, around the same time, a decision was taken to stop decorating the space between chapels in the cathedral’s double ambulatory with beautiful open tracery, which has no structural function and is only present in the first two bays of the apse.
[eng] This paper documents a design change that took place around 1434 in the construction of the flying buttresses of the Cathedral of Tortosa, which went from being richly ornamented above the chapels to decoratively restrained above the ambulatory. Starting with the physical evidence, the paper considers the possibility that, around the same time, a decision was taken to stop decorating the space between chapels in the cathedral’s double ambulatory with beautiful open tracery, which has no structural function and is only present in the first two bays of the apse.
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VIDAL FRANQUET, Jacobo. Tortosa, 1434: del decorativismo a la contención ornamental. Nota sobre unos arbotantes. Locus Amoenus. 2025. ISSN 1135-9722. [consulted: 7 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/225060