Chapter 17 - ROMANESQUE Western Europe 1050-1200 .

Chapter 17 - ROMANESQUEWestern Europe

1050-1200

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Romanesque Stylistic Characteristics

• Regionalism –Architecture - verticality, ceilings different • Architecture round arch & stone barrel and groin vaults, walls thick & solid• Resurgence of monumental stone sculpture • Carved portals• Like Byzantine – plain on the outside• German Romanesque - Uses stone, less ornate, twin towers, Reflects culture – sturdy, organized, ordered• Italian -– timber roofs, low buildings, marble, arcades, blind arches

Christ in Majesty with angels and Twenty-Four EldersSaint-Pierre, Moissac, France.

Tympanum

Gislebertus, Last Judgment

Weighing of the souls

Eve, N. Side

Ascension of Christ and Mission of the Apostles La Madeleine, Vezelay, France

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Second Compartment from top Right male/female Siamese twins

TopCompartment  Right: Dog

headed people

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A man mounts a horse with a ladder- perhaps

a pygmy

Lions and Old Testament prophet (Jeremiah or Isaiah?)Saint-Pierre

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trumeau

Cloister of Saint-Pierre, Moissac

Miracles of Saint Martin Griffins

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Historiated capitalsBestiaries

St. Etienne, Vignory, FranceNorthern style French Romanesque

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St. Sernin, Toulouse, France

Modular plan

Compare with Saint-Etienne

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St. Sernin, Toulouse, Francenave

Nave Elevation

AISLES

Tribune

Compound piers

Groin Vaults

Christ in Majesty, Saint-Sernin

Angel Angel Apostle Apostle

Mandorla

Saint-Savin-Sur-Gartempe France.

Hall church

Notre-Dame, Fontenay, France

Pointed archCistercian austerity

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Moralia in Job, Initial R with knight fighting a dragon

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Christ in Majesty, Santa Maria de Mur, Catalonia, Spain.

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Morgan Madonna

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Throne of wisdom

GERMAN ROMANESQUE

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Speyer Cathedral

Groin vaultsClerestory windowsAlternate-support system

Compound piers

Italian Romanesque – Southern

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Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

RibVaulting

St. Sernin, Toulouse, France

Speyer CathedralGermany

Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

Regionalism - verticality

Cathedral complex, Pisa

Baptistery Cathedral

BellTower(Campanile)

incrustation

Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence

Marble incrustationArcuated panels

SAN MINIATO AL MONTE

Marble incrustationDiaphragm arches

Creation and temptation of Adam and Eve. Modena Cathedral

St. Etienne, Caen, France

Division into 3’s

Sexpartite vaultRib vault

Durham Cathedral, England

Ribbed groin vault over 3 story nave

Quandrant arches

Interior arches

Battle of Hastings Norman Cavalry Charging

Funeral procession to Westminster Abbey

Bayeux Tapestry

Eadwine Psalter