Set of ten Mudejar corbels: Crown of Aragon, 16th... Lot 42

Set of ten Mudejar corbels: Crown of Aragon, 16th century. Carved and polychromed wood. It has faults caused by the passage of time. Measurements: 18 x 75 x 18 cm (x10). Group of ten corbels or beams, probably from the ceiling of a monastery hall or other religious architecture. With thick strokes, the drawings in the lower area are inspired by stylised plant motifs, with a predominance of red and green tones. The beams are carved in a combination of flat sections and mouldings with curved profiles, as well as high reliefs in the upper part, most of which depict human faces. The pieces have an aesthetic that is close to Mudéjar art, an artistic style that developed in the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, but which incorporates influences, elements or materials from the Hispano-Muslim style. It is the consequence of the conditions of coexistence of cultures in medieval Spain, given that it is the art of the Mudejars, people of Muslim religion and Arab culture who remained in the Christian kingdoms after the conquest of their territory and, in exchange for a tax, kept their own religion and legal status. The ensemble follows the stylistic models of the works of the neo-Gothic period that belonged to the Crown of Aragon. This was a composite monarchy, created by the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession. At the height of its power in the 14th and 15th centuries, the Crown of Aragon controlled a large part of eastern Spain today, parts of what is now southern France and a Mediterranean empire that included the Balearic Islands, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, southern Italy (from 1442) and parts of Greece (until 1388). The component kingdoms of the Crown were not politically united except by the king, who governed each autonomous political entity according to his