Romanesque

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St. Vincenc Church (nave & choir)
Cardona, Spain
1029-1040

early romanesque

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Lintel of west portal
St.-Genis-Des-Fontaines, France
1020-1021

early romanesque

• Christ in mandorla, held up by 2 angels
• not quite monumental
• linear forms, minimal height of relief

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Reconstruction drawing of the Abbey (Cluny III)
Cluny
1088-1130

clunaic order

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Reconstruction drawing of Cathedral of St. James
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1078-1122

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Cathedral of St. James
Santiago de Compostela
1078-1122.

Puerta de las Platerias (Door of the Silversmiths), south transept portal // floorplan // nave // transept

• dominant image of church exterior was often the last judgement (they thought that the world was about to end)
• nave - barrel vault on transverse arches
• transept - squinches

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Reliquary casket with symbols of the four Evangelists
1150
Champlevė enamel on gilt copper

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St. Sernin Church
Toulouse
1070-1120

• St. Sernin was a Roman Christian martyr
• interior view of nave & choir

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Christ in Majesty (Maiestas Domini)
1096.
Marble

• (from St.-Sernin Church in Toulouse)
• Christ in mandorla, as judge
• has book with hand raised in blessing
• severe, not comforting
• body and face looks swelled up
• higher relief style gives more tangible reality, but still tension between surface and mass

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Priory Church of St.-Pierre (south portal and porch)
Moissac, Toulouse, France.
1115-1130

• frightful image of God, little hope to be rescued
• image of Apocalypse
• archangels
• ability we have to empathize with these figures is very minimal

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Lions and Prophet (and Jeremiah?)
from Priory Church of St.-Pierre (Moissac, Toulouse, France)
1115-1130

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Gislebertus (Architect)
Cathedralof St.-Lazare (west portal)
Autun, Burgundy, France
1120-1135/40

• psycho-stasis: weighing of the souls

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Gislebertus
Eve (right half of lintel, north portal of cathedral of Saint-Lazare in Autun, France)
1120-1132

• emerging personal style here, very interested in narrative

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Giselbertus
Three Magi Asleep
(capital from the choir of Cathedral of St. Lazare in Atun France)
1120-1132

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Sarcophagus of Dona Sancha (front & back)
1120
stone

• Dona Sancha was a Spanish queen
• 3 figures attempt to tell story

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tympanum

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Arched area between an arch and the lintel of a door or window, often carved with relief sculpture

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archevolt

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a molded band framing an arch, or series of bands framing a tympanum, often decorated with sculpture

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voussoir

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wedge-shaped piece of stone used in arch construction

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jamb

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the vertical sides of an opening, often cut on a slant outward (splayed) to allow for more sculptural decoration

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trumeau

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central post supporting the lintel of a large doorway, often decorated with sculpture

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lintel

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horizontal support across a door/window

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Christ & the Apostles (from Berze la-Ville Church, France)
painting
early 12th century

• Christ as judge, but is more approachable and less scary
• he is balloon-like
• drapery like late Byzantine style

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Building of the Tower of Babel (from Abbey Church of St. Savin-Sur-Gartempe)
detail of painting on nave vault
Poitou, France
1100

• nave

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Nave of Abbey Church of Notre Dame
Fontnag
1139-1147

• "Cistercian Architecture"
• pointed ("ogival") arch has spiritual quality, symbolic
• Trying to avoid showiness of older Romanesque style

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"Pentecost" from "Cluny Lectionary"
early 12th century
tempera on vellum

• Peter and other Apostles
• Middle Byzantine stylistic influence

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Notre-Dame-la-Grande (west facade)
early 12th century
Politiers, France

• resurgence of monumentality

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Saint-Gilles-du-Gard (west facade)
mid 12th century
France

• architecture itself is not impressive, but embedded sculpture is
• sculpture emerges from niches, almost freestanding
• round arches are very Romanesque

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Tower of Pisa
Pisa, Italy
1053-1272

• bad bedrock
• made of marble
• very decorative, maybe even too much to

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Baptistry, cathedral, & campanile
Pisa, Italy
1053-1272

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Baptistry of San Giovanni
Florence, Italy
1060-1150

• octagonal
• marble
• "serene stone" - two-tone effect, very characteristic of Italy

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Church of St. Clemente (nave)
Rome, Italy
1120-1130

• elaborate, gilded mosaics (crucifixion, magical plant)
• cosmati work: piece work made of semi-precious stones on floor
• Baldacchino

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Renier of Huy
Baptismal Font (style?)
1107-1118
bronze
Liege, Belgium

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Durham cathedral
Durham, England
1093-1133

• pointed arch
• huge choir, for clergy only

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Bayeux Tapestry
1066-1082
wool embroidery on linen

• show episodes identified by text
• follows pattern of column of Trajan

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Church of St.-Etienne
Normandy, France
1064, facade late 14th, spires 13th

• Normandy introduced entrance with 3 different doors
• 6-part vault
• responds - one of slender shafts in medieval church that seems to carry the weight of the vault
• string courses

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respond

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one of slender shafts in medieval church that seems to carry the weight of the vault