Romanesque wall paintings in churches had a didactic purpose and featured predominantly religious themes and iconography. Common images included the Pantocrator or Christ as judge at the center, surrounded by other figures like the Virgin Mary, angels, and saints. Stylistically, the paintings had flat colors, thick outlines, and lacked realistic proportions or shading. Specific conventions were used to depict figures and symbolism around religious scenes. Wall paintings could cover vaults and arches in addition to apses and were not confined to any single location within the church.

1. Romanesque Painting Revision

13. Wall painting Painting may invade any place, from the vaults to the inner part of the arches. There is a hyerarchich organisation: main scenes on the vaults and natural elements (plants, flower) in secondary parts. There is a kind of horror vacuii. In vaults there is not a clear direction, as in apses, and due to it images may appear in all the positions.

14. Wall painting In this image of San Isidore we can see the distribution of characters, the different location of the images and their possition (the Tetramorphe group aroun the mandorle, e.g.)