Chapter 15: Romanesque Art
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Chapter 15

Romanesque Art

  A. ROMANESQUE CULTURE

  B. FRANCE AND NORTHERN SPAIN
    1. Architecture
    2. Architectural Sculpture
    3. Independent Sculpture
    4. Wall Painting
    5. Books

  C. THE NORTH SEA KINGDOMS
    1. Timber Architecture and Sculpture
    2. Masonry Architecture
    3. Books
    4. The Bayeux Tapestry

  D. THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
    1. Architecture
    2. Metalwork
    3. Books

  E. ANCIENT ROME AND ROMANESQUE ITALY

Romanesque Art

  A. ROMANESQUE CULTURE   top

Carved capital from the Church of San Isidro, Leon, Spain, c. 1054-1067

  B. FRANCE AND NORTHERN SPAIN   top

Interior sculpted capital of the Mystic Mill from La Madeleine, Vezelay, France, c. 12th century

Portals at St. Pierre, Aulnay, France, c. 1130

    1. Architecture   top

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Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy, Conques, Rouergue, France. Mid- 11th - 12th century. Western towers rebuilt in the 19th century; crossing tower rib-vaulted in the 14th century, restored in the 19th century. View from the northeast

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Plan of Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy

Fig. 15-4 Nave, Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy. c. 1120

Abbey Church, Cluny III, Burgundy, France

Interior view of La Madeleine, Vezelay, France, c. 1130 - 1132

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Nave, Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, Fontenay. 1139 - 47

    2. Architectural Sculpture   top

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Doubting Thomas, pier in the cloister of the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, Castile, Spain. c. 1100

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South Portal, Priory Church, Saint Pierre Moissac, Toulouse, France c. 1115 - 30

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Images of the Priory Church of Saint Pierre including, Lions and Prophet Jeremiah(?) trumeau of the south portal, Priory Church of Saint-Pierre

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Main portal, Cathedral (originally abbey church) of Saint-Lazare Autun, Burgundy, France. c. 1120 - 35/40

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Gislebertus. Weighing of Souls detail of Last Judgment tympanum, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun

    3. Independent Sculpture   top

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Virgin and Child, from the Auvergne region, France. c. 1150 - 1200. Oak with polychromy, height 31" (78.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    4. Wall Painting   top

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Nave, Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe. Poitou, France. c. 1100

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Tower of Babel, detail of painted nave vaulting, Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe

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Christ in Majesty, detail of apse painting from the Church of San Clemente, Tahull, Lérida, Spain. c. 1123. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

    5. Books   top

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Page with Pentecost, Cluny Lectionary. Early 12th century. Ink and tempera on vellum, 9 x 5" (23 x 12.5 cm). Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS lat. 2246, fol. 79v

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Page with Tree of Jesse, Citeaux Explanatio in Isaiam (Saint Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah), from the Abbey, Cîteaux, Burgundy, France. c. 1125. Ink and tempera on vellum, 15 x 4" (38 x 12 cm). Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon, France, MS 129, fol. 4v

Sacramentary of St. Etienne Cathedral, c. 1100

  C. THE NORTH SEA KINGDOMS   top

A Psalter on vellum from Normandy, c. 1180

"The Norman Connection," shows everything Norman--from churches and castles--to Bayeux tapestry

    1. Timber Architecture and Sculpture   top

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Borgund stave church, Sogn, Norway. c. 1125 - 50

    2. Masonry Architecture   top

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Castle-monastery-cathedral complex, Durham, Northumberland, England. c. 1075 - 1100s, plus later alterations and additions

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Plan of Durham Castle

Nave of Durham Cathedral. Early 12th century. Original apses replaced by a Gothic choir, 1242 - c.1280. Vault height 73' (22.2 m). View from the west

Views of the Durham Peninsula

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Church of Saint-Étienne, Caen, Normandy, France. Begun 1064; facade late 11th century; spires 13th century

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Nave, Church of Saint-Étienne, Caen

    3. Books   top
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Page with Hellmouth, Winchester Psalter from Winchester, England. c. 1150. Ink and tempera on vellum,

    4. The Bayeux Tapestry   top

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Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast, section 47-48 of the Bayeux Tapestry, Norman-Anglo-Saxon embroidery from Canterbury, Kent, England, or Bayeux, Normandy, France. c. 1066 - 82. Linen with wool, height 20' (50.8 cm). Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, France

  D. THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE   top

Portable altar and ceremonial crosses from the Guelph Treasury

    1. Architecture   top

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Interior, Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany, as remodeled c. 1081 - 1106. Lithograph of 1844 by von Bachelier. Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg

    2. Metalwork   top

    3. Books   top

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Facsimile of page with Hildegard's Vision, Liber Scivias c. 1150 - 1200. Original manuscript lost during World War II

Page with initial Q, in a psalter from a nunnery in Augsberg.

  E. ANCIENT ROME AND ROMANESQUE ITALY   top

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Cathedral Complex, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. Cathedral begun 1063; baptistry begun 1153; campanile begun 1174; Campo Santo 13th century

Nave, Pisa Cathedral.

Church of Sant'Ambrogio.

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Nave, Church of San Clemente, Rome. c. 1120 - 30

Exhibit of Italian late medieval and Romanesque architectural sculpture from Verona, Milan, Parma, and more

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