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Romanesque Art

Romanesque Art. Western Europe, AD 900-1200. Societal Structure. feudal system with the addition of a bourgeois/towns dweller class Barons- landowners- became kings Papacy- popes strong central power. Significant Figures. Saint Bernard Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine Richard the Lionheart

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Romanesque Art

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  1. Romanesque Art • Western Europe, AD 900-1200

  2. Societal Structure • feudal system with the addition of a bourgeois/towns dweller class • Barons- landowners- became kings • Papacy- popes strong central power

  3. Significant Figures • Saint Bernard • Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine • Richard the Lionheart • Héloïse

  4. Culture • Pilgrimages • Crusades • Scholars- Aristotle’s rational thought influences Christian thought, first university structure emerges • Lawyer as profession- Justinian’s civil law code is discovered • Master Masons- first architects as vocation

  5. Romanesque Churches Terms: apse choir crossing transept nave ambulatory aisles chapels sanctuary portal narthex

  6. St.-Philibert, Tournus, France, 950-1020 & later

  7. St.-Sernin, Toulouse, France, 1080-1120

  8. Speyer Cathedral, West Germany, begun 1030

  9. Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy, late 11th and early 12th centuries

  10. St.-Étienne, Caen, France, begun 1067

  11. Durham Cathedral, England, begun 1093

  12. Baptistery, Cathedral, and Campanile of Pisa, Italy, 1053-1272

  13. Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, Italy, 11th century

  14. San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Italy, 1062 and 12th century

  15. Romanesque Sculpture • Bernardus Gelduinus, Christ in Majesty, from the ambulatory of St.-Sernin, Toulouse, France, 1096

  16. Romanesque Portal Voussoir- wedge shaped block to make up the archivolts

  17. Wiligelmus, Creation and Temptation of Adam and Eve, frieze on the west facade, Cathedral of Moderna, Italy, 1110.

  18. Tympanum of the south portal of St.-Pierre, Moissac, France, 1115-1135

  19. The Prophet Jeremiah (Isaiah?), from the trumeau of the south portal of St.-Pierre, lifesize.

  20. Capitals from the cloister of St.-Pierre

  21. Gislebertus, west tympanum of St.-Lazare, Autun, France, 1130.

  22. The Ascension of Christ and the Pentecost Mission of the Apostles, center portal of the narthex of La Madeleine, Vézelay, France, 1120-1132.

  23. Portal on the west facade of St.-Trophîme, Arles, France, late 12th century.

  24. Cloister of St.-Trophîme

  25. Romanesque Painting • Norman Cavalry Charging in the Battle of Hastings, from the Bayeux Tapestry, 1070-1080, embroidered wool on linen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o

  26. Christ in Majesty, detached apse fresco from Santa Maria de Mur, Catalonia, Spain, early 12th century.

  27. Romanesque Illumination

  28. Master Hugo, Moses Expounding the Law, from the Book of Deuteronomy, Bury Bible, the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, England, early 12th century, illuminated manuscript.

  29. The Revelation of St. John: Enthroned Christ with the Signs of the Evangelists and the Twenty-four Elders, from the Apocalypse of St.-Sever, painted in the abbey of St.-Sever, France, 1050.

  30. Eadwine the Scribe (?), The Scribe Eadwine, from the Canterbury Psalter, 1150, Trinity College, Cambridge, England.

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