page_title: Mural paintings of the conquest of Majorca
section_title: Style
hierarchical_section_title: Mural paintings of the conquest of Majorca / Style
caption_attribution_description: Español: Batalla de Portopí fragmento de las pinturas murales de la conquista de Mallorca, procedentes del Palacio Aguilar de Barcelona y conservadas en el Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña Datadas: 1285-1290Català: Batalla de Portopí, fragment de les pintures murals de la conquesta de Mallorca, procedents del Palau Aguilar de Barcelona i conservades al Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Datades 1285-1290
context_page_description: The Mural paintings of the Conquest of Majorca is a group of paintings conserved at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
context_section_description: These paintings pertain to the military genre of historical painting or profane works in commemoration of heroic feats and gestures. A similar example of the same era is a painting found on a vaulted niche conserved in MNAC, belonging to Saint Vincent of Cardona, where the siege of Girona (1285)/ The defense of Girona (1285) is depicted. This event was also described in the chronicles of Bernat Desclot. It is one the works that could be attributed to the master of the Conquest of Majorca. A little later, during the beginning of the 14th century, there are other works in a similar style of linear gothic which are found in the tower of the castle of Alcanyís, which portray the Conquest of Valencia by James I.
  The stylistic affinity is clear when these paintings are compared with the murals of the Palau Reial Major; both date from between 1285 and 1290, and both of which, in addition to the same subject, were realised using the majority of colours of red, blue, black and ochre, with a linear stroke deeply marked in black.
  This narrative of the painting is depicted in reverse to that of its written version, that is, from right to left, with great affinity in its narrative.
  There has been no conclusion as to which of the two series of paintings was realised first; that of the Palau Reail Major or, that of the Palau Aguilar.
  That of the Palau Reial Major may have been the first to be painted as the style of the work is found to be more epic and monumental in its representation of the military parades; the figures being depicted as more compact than those found in the work of Palau Aguilar.
  The work of Palau Aguilar more creative freedom can be observed, a creative freedom that perhaps would not have been apt for the destiny as a mural for a royal reception hall.
  The coincidence that these murals were executed in the same style and subject matter in both palaces was resolved with the discovery that Dolçe de Caldes, daughter of Bernat de Caldes (owner of Palau Aguiler), at the time of the death of King Alfonso the Candid, was pregnant with Alfonso's child. The King, before his death in 1291, asked his brother James (future king James the Just) to look after Dolçe and the son she was expecting by King Alfonso.
caption: The panel depicting the Battle of Porto Pi
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