page_title: Mural paintings of the conquest of Majorca
section_title: Pictorial Context
hierarchical_section_title: Mural paintings of the conquest of Majorca / Pictorial Context
caption_attribution_description: Pintura mural del Saló del Tinell al Palau Reial Major de Barcelona. Foren realitzades després de la mort de Jaume I d'Aragó i es conserven al mur romànic. S'hi aprecia la representació de Nunó Sanç.
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: With regard to linear Gothic paintings in Catalan Counties at the time, a workshop began in Barcelona which undertook the task of realising fresco paintings on the walls of various palaces in the city. The most important of these resulting works can be named as: the paintings at Tinell Hall (Saló Tinell), the Royal Palace (Palau Reial Mayor) and Palau Aguilar.
  The frescoes were in no doubt executed by a workshop which realised commissions for Kings Alfonso the Candid (Alfonso el Franc) and James the Just (Jaume el Just), the nobility and clergy from both Barcelona and Majorca. Similarities are noted between the aforementioned palaces and the altarpiece of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Palma de Majorca, the altarpiece of Saint Ursula of the convent of Saint Francis, Palma, and the altarpiece of Saint Bernard, realised for the Templers and today on display in the Museum of Majorca.
  It is believed that the first commission of the murals in Barcelona was by the King and some nobles and afterwards, by religious authorities on the island of Majorca.
  
  Dalmaes i Pitrarch was also of the same opinion in relation to the workshop that ‘after working in Barcelona, made its way to Mallorca in 1300'. 
  Throughout the Iberian Peninsula these murals display a level of similarity and so have been compared to the paintings found in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Valbuena in Valladolid, which represents the Conquest of Arjona in 1244.
caption: Detail of the Mural - Nunó Sanç
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