
La forma de la primitiva iglesia de San Juan Bautista de Oviedo: análisis y contextualización de restos arqueológicos a través de procedimientos de informática gráfica
Author(s) -
Francisco José Borge Cordovilla
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
virtual archaeology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.45
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 1989-9947
DOI - 10.4995/var.2013.4236
Subject(s) - fountain , humanities , art , archaeology , history , visual arts
The application of the procedures commonly used by computer graphics has allowed the author contextualize the existing remains under the present church of San Pelayo de Oviedo as corresponding to a high medieval crypt, built by the shop that built Santa Maria del Rey Casto basilica and Foncalada fountain, reigning Alfonso II (to 842), including making a joint hypothesis of the same with the primitive basilica of San Juan Bautista named by early medieval sources in Asturias, characterized by a complex liturgical equipment, "confessio" semi-underground low chancel and sanctuary high; by linking the building with other Europeans, the Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon area, of which derived type, also present in the s Roman basilicas of the eighth century