The Romanesque Style, Part l

Along with Western civilization, art after the fall of Rome is submerged in shadows; the universal meaning of Classical art desintegrated into a plurality of national and local styles. Thus, in Spain there is a consecutive development of the Visigothic, Asturian and Mozarabic styles. But when it seems that European art has reached complete desintegration, a series of religious, economic and social causes will motivate the creation of a new utilitarian artistic style, the Romanesque one. It will no longer be that of an empire, such as the Roman one, but of a spiritual ideal, Christianity.