Resumen de Una reconsideració sobre els orígens de l'arquitectura romànica a Catalunya: el mite dels mestres llombards
The Romanesque architectural revolution (or evolution) in the Catalan Counties is traditionally related to the arrival of builders coming from the North of Italy, the so-called "Lombard Masters." The introduction of certain skills and architectural motifs typical of the "first Romanesque" is generally attributed to the Lombard Masters. Despite the apparent support of Catalan textual sources for this hypothesis (especially the indisputable use of the term "lambard" as a synonym for "builder"), a detailed re-analysis of the medieval documents allows us to deny emphatically the existence of any testimony to the presence of these masters, and so we can delink the start of the Catalan Romanesque from a massive arrival of Italian builders.
