romanesque art in europe ppt
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Romanesque Art HistoryTRANSCRIPT
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
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.
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Nave, Abbey Church of Ste.-Foy, Conques, France, c. early11th Century, Patron Abbot Odolric c. 1052, cloister began by Abbot Begon
Plan of Abbey Church of Saint-Foy
1. Nave2. Aisle 3. Crossing4. Choir5. Transept6. Chancel7. Apse8. Ambulatory9. Radiating chapel
Pentecost, the Peoples of the Earth and Saint John the Baptist,Abbey Church of la Madeleine, Vézelay, France, 1120-1132
Cloister pier with relief of Abbot Durand, Saint-Pierre Moissac, 1047-1172
Last Judgment, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, 1130-1145
"Weighing the Souls of the Damned"Tympanum Romanesque Sculptures of GislebertusCathedrale St-Lazare, Autun, Saone-et-Loire
Mont. Saint Michel, Normandy, France, 1024-1084
Motto of the monks: “Ora et Labora”
Nave of Mont Saint Michel:Three layer walls:1. Ground floor2. Tribune gallery3. Clerestory windows
Cathedral of Pisa and campanile, 1063-1350.
Bayeux Tapestry,
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