Romanesque Art1050-1200

Cult of Relics

Head reliquary of Saint Alexander, 1145

Cult of Relics and Pilgrimage

Head reliquary of Saint Alexander, 1145

Cult of Relics and Pilgrimage

Europe ca. 1100

Initial R with knight fighting dragons.Folio from the Moralia in Job, France ca. 1115

The Crusades11th-13th centuries

Europe ca. 1100

Romanesque Europe:11th-12th centuries

Issues:Cult of RelicsPilgrimageCrusades

Major sites along the pilgrimage roads in France and Spain from the 11th and 12th centuries

Benedictine abbey church at Cluny, France 1088

Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France 1070-1120

Romanesque PortalAbbey Church at Moissac, France, 1100

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum.

Christ in Majesty, Tympanum of the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.

Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail of artist inscription: “Gislebertus hoc fecit”