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Romanesque Art in Europe. 1000-1250. “ Shortly after the year 1000, …the very world had shaken itself, and casting off her old garments was clothing herself everywhere in a white robe of churches.” Monk Ralph Glaber , 1050. Ste. Foy (Sainte Faith), Conques, France, 11 th century,.
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Romanesque Art in Europe 1000-1250 “ Shortly after the year 1000, …the very world had shaken itself, and casting off her old garments was clothing herself everywhere in a white robe of churches.” Monk Ralph Glaber, 1050
Ste. Foy (Sainte Faith), Conques, France, 11th century,
Romanesque Architecture • Five centuries between the fall of Rome in 479 until the new millennium architecture came to a halt. • Roads, sanitation, water, and Roman laws disappeared • Every building was destroyed soon after its erection by the illiterate barbarian tribes • When the world did not end with the second coming and wars and destruction abated, building once again flourished with castles and churches in Europe • Massive walls for protection on both.
Nave, Abbey Church of Ste. Foy, Conques, France, c. early11th Century, Patron Abbot Odolric c. 1052, cloister began by Abbot Begon
Nave Aisle Crossing Choir Transept Chancel Apse Ambulatory Radiating chapel Plan of Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy
Archivolts Pointed Arch Voussoir Door Jambs Tympanum Trumeau Lintel
Cloister pier with relief of Abbot Durand, Saint-Pierre Moissac, 1047-1172
Last Judgment, Gislebertus, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, 1130-1145
"Weighing the Souls of the Damned" Tympanum Romanesque Sculptures of Gislebertus Cathedrale St-Lazare, Autun, Saone-et-Loire
Motto of the monks: “Ora et Labora” Mont. Saint Michel, Normandy, France, 1024-1084
Cathedral of Pisa and campanile, 1063-1350.
Nave of St. Ambrogio, Milan, Italy, late 11th to Early 12th Century
St. Sernin, St. Sernin, Toulouse, France, 1080-1120
Bayeux Tapestry, 1077, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ4D4_E