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Vocabulary• Cloisone enamel• Hiberno-Saxon• Illuminated Manuscript• Codex• Barrel vault• Groin vault• Transept• Ambulatory• Radiating chapels• Tribunes
• Compound piers• Springing• Transverse arches• Tripartite division• Quadrant arches• Buttress• Portal• Mandorla• Tympanum
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The Early Middle Ages in the West• Period of time between the Classical Roman empire and
the Renaissance• Migration Period- Different tribes settle western Europe,
carving out many of today’s countries and regions.• Western European cultures convert to Christianity and
monastic culture grows• Familiar with Roman influence; Romanesque refers to the
Roman style of architecture• Period of Crusades and Pilgrimages; 4 crusades in 1090,
1147, 1190, 1204• Beginning of Holy Roman Empire, 800 CE
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Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625
•King Raedwald
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Norse, Lion Head Post, Oseberg Ship Burial, 825
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Celtic Christian,
High Cross of
Muiredach
Ireland, 923
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Hiberno-Saxon, Book of Durrow,
St. Matthew, Britain, 660-680
•Insular•Codex•Manuscript Illumination•Author page•tonsure
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Book of Durrow, St. Mark
•Author Page
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Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne
Gospels, Cross-Carpet Page,
Britain, 689-721
•Carpet page
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Hiberno-Saxon, The Book of
Kells, Chi-Rho page, Iona,
Britain, ca. 800
•Initial page•Christi autem generatio
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Detail of Chi RhoBook of Kells
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Carolingian, Equestrian Statue of
Charlemagne, 9th century,
France•Renovatio Romani Imperii•Holy Roman Empire 800-843
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Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels of
Charlemagne, Aachen,
Germany, ca. 800-810
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Carolingian, St. Matthew, Ebbo
Gospels, 816-35, France
•Charlemagne•Monastery•Scriptorium
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Crucifixion, cover of the
Lindau Gospels from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca.
870
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Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, 792-805
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Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
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San Vitale, Ravenna, 547
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Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819
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Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819
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•Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew, 698-72, Britain
•Hiberno-Saxon, Codex Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra, 689-716, Britain
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St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001-31
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Ottonian, St. Michael’s, 1001-1031, Germany
•Choir•Piers•Nave arcade•Alternating Support System
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St. Michael’s plan
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Ottonian, Bronze Column,
St. Michael’s, 1022
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Bronze Doors, St. Michael’sHildesheim, Germany, 1015
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Colum of Trajan, Rome,
113 AD
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Bronze doors, St. Michael’s,
Hildesheim, Germany, 1015
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Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France, 1070-1120
•Pilgrimage Type•Transept
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Basilica of St. Sernin
AmbulatoryRadiating chapels
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Basilica of St. Sernin, Interior
Nave
•Tribunes•Compound piers•Springing•Transverse arches
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Abbey Church of St.-Etiénne,
Caen, France, 1067-1120
•Tripartite division•Buttresses
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Abbey Church of St.-Etiénne,
Interior Nave •Groin Vault•Ribs•Sexpartite vault
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Cathedral at Durham,
England, begun 1093
•Quadrant arches•Alternate Support system•Ribbed groin vault
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Pisa Cathedral Complex, Italy, Begun 1063
Tuscan Romanesque
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•Arcaded Galleries•Cornice
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Master Giselbertus, Tympanum, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare,1120-1146
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Weighing of the Souls, Tympanum
detail, Saint-Lazare, 1120-1146
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St. Alexander reliquary, Belgium,
1145
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Burial of King Edward
The Bayeux Tapestry, Romanesque, English, 1066-86