Romanesque Style, Part lV

Romanesque paintings are generally done in fresco, but not having perfected this technique, retouching must be done with oils or tempera. The figures which appear are submitted to a process of abstraction which is derived from the sense of creative expression characteristic of the anonymous masters who do the paintings. As a result, this painting, whose flatness and bi-dimensionality have Byzantine origins, leads in a realistic-expressionistic path and tries, through patches of color on the faces and hands, to liven up the flat tones and disocover volumetric effects which will be more fully achieved in the Gothic period.