frescoes in the Charterhouse of Aula Dei

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The frescoes in the Charterhouse of Aula Dei are a celebrated cycle of religious wall paintings in a Carthusian monastery near Zaragoza, Spain, renowned for their late Baroque style and narrative scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque artwork
fresco cycle
religious wall paintings
artForm fresco
artHistoricalSignificance important example of Aragonese Baroque painting
artisticPeriod 18th century
associatedWith Charterhouse of Aula Dei
Aragonese school of painting
surface form: Zaragoza school of painting
country Spain
culturalContext Spanish Counter-Reformation tradition
depicts life of the Virgin Mary
scenes from the New Testament
function didactic religious narrative
monastic decoration
genre religious art
heritageType Spanish cultural heritage
iconographicFocus Virgin Mary
liturgicalContext Marian feasts
locatedIn Aragon
near Zaragoza
location Charterhouse of Aula Dei
material pigments on plaster
movement late Baroque
notableFor large narrative cycle
late Baroque style
religiousOrderContext Carthusian Order
surface form: Carthusian
religiousTradition Roman Catholicism
setting monastery church
subjectMatter Marian devotion
technique buon fresco

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Francisco Bayeu notableWork frescoes in the Charterhouse of Aula Dei