We Are Just Three Pilgrims

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St. Peter's Basilica
Early Christian
ca. 320-27, atrium added later in the 4th century
Rome: Vatican City

Hint 1

-built by Constantine
-atrium for gathering
-plain wooden roof, no dome,

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Palatine Chapel, Aachen interior
Carolingian
ca. 790-805
now incorporated into Aachen Cathedral
Germany : Aachen (French Aix-la-Chapelle)

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Basilica of San Marco
Italo-Byzantine
1063-94
Italy: Venice

Hint 3

-plus-sign shaped
-5 dome plan
-golden mosaics

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St. Sernin
Romanesque , Pilgrimage Style
1080-1120
SW France: Toulouse

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-barrel vault
-ambulatory
-basilica plan
-radiating chapels as secondary spaces fro pilgrims to visit

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Cloister pier relief of Christ on the way to Emmaus
Romanesque
Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos
ca 1100
Northern Spain: Silos (Burgos province)

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Pentecost tympanum at monastery church of Sainte-Madeleine
1120-32
France (Burgundy region):Vézelay

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-romanesque
-tall lintels, halfmoon arches, few archivolts, inner band of people of the world in various stages of conversion
-John the baptist
-Jesus charging apostles to go out into the world and convert
-rays from fingertips like sending out on a pilgrimage

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Last Judgement tympanum on Abbey church of St-Lazare
Gislebertus (?)
west portal of abbey church
ca. 1120-40
France (Burgundy region): Autun

Hint 7

-romanesque
-flat linear figures, strong outline
-Jesus has bent knee position
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Nave capitals at Abbey church of St-Lazare
Gislebertus (?)
west portal of abbey church
ca. 1120-40
France (Burgundy region): Autun

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Apocalyptic tympanum at Moissac
Romanesque
Moissac: Priory church of St-Pierre
1125-30
SW France: Moissac

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-romanesque, but there is a pointy arch
-around Jesus, 4 evangelists in symbolic forms
-scalloping on door
-Jesus in separating mandorla
-24 elders of the apocalypse, craning necks looking up

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Trumeau figures at Moissac
Romanesque
Moissac: Priory church of St-Pierre
1125-30
SW France: Moissac

Hint 10

-clinging to stone, flatness is decorative element
-Jeremiah - legs are in impossible, but expressive position

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Last Judgement tympanum at Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy
1125-35
SW France: Conques

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-one door for heaven, another for hell
-romanesque
-no trumeau
-three registers

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Chalice of Abbot Suger of St. Denis
French & Antiquity
sardonyx cup: 2nd/1st cent. BCE
mounting: 1137-40
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art

Hint 12

sardonyx cup with heavily gilded silver mounting, adorned with filigrees set with stones, pearls, glass insets, and opaque white glass pearls

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Abbey of St. Denis, floorplan
Early Gothic & Carolingian
-west facade & narthex 1135-1140
-choir & ambulatory, 1140-44
-nave enlargement, 13th c and later
France: outskirts of Paris

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-Suger adds narthex and then enlarged chapels
-monastic church, does not serve parishes

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Abbey of St. Denis, ambulatory
Early Gothic & Carolingian
-choir & ambulatory, 1140-44
France: outskirts of Paris

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Royal portal at Chartres
French Gothic
Chartres Cathedral
ca. 1140-1150
Ile-de-France region: Chartres

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-gothic
-classical features of Gothic architecture
-doors interpret, teach, stage
-structured in terms of time

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Royal portal tympana at Chartres
French Gothic
Chartres Cathedral
ca. 1140-1150
Ile-de-France region: Chartres

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-gothic
Center - future
-12 apostles (+2 greeters)
-24 elders
-mandorla
-evangelist symbols

Left - present
-craning heads to see Jesus going into clouds with 2 angels
-we live in period between Jesus going away and coming back
-archivolts show zodiac and labors of the month

Right - past/biblical times
-called Virgin/Incarnation portal
-double lintel, bottom shows virgin giving birth and the nativity; top shows presentation of Jesus in the temple
-center is Virgin on throne with Jesus in position known as throne of wisdom
-portal is rigid and stiff - Mary in seat of wisdom, but not yet mother

Jamb figures depict prophets
-3d bodies
-stoic, not moving, like columns as architecture, outlines symbolic function as individuals
-holding what would indicate who they are

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Belle Verrière stained glass at Chartres
French Gothic
Chartres Cathedral
ca. 1150-70 (4 romanesque windows) rest 1210-1240
Ile-de-France region: Chartres

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-preserves 4 panels from Romanesque
-pointed shape called lancet
-blue is not a special color

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Rose Window at Chartres (Rose of France)
Chartres
French Gothic
Chartres Cathedral
ca 1220
Ile-de-France region: Chartres

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Pilgrims on the Road to Canterbury window
Anglo-Norman
Miracle windows: Shrine of St. Thomas Becket
1213/15-20
stained glass
Kent: Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel

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around the shrine, show the miracles of St. Thomas, established a cult following
-advertising in stained glass

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Sainte-Chapelle Interior
French, Gothic Rayonnant = Court style
1243-48
Paris: Ile de la Cite

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-not a cathedral, royal chapel built by Louis IX
-micro architecture
-jewel box

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Psalter World Map
English
ca. 1265
manuscript on vellum
orig. Westminister
now London: British Library

Hint 21

-show rivers pouring out from paradise
-TO map

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Irene Painting a Statue
French
page from Bocaccio's De Claris Mulierbus (Concerning Famous Women)
mid-fifteenth century
London: British Library

Hint 22

-Irene is praised as the greatest artist of Greek times
-no paintings from classical times exist