Romanesque Art

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Romanesque Art
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Romanesque

• 1050-1200
• solid masonry walls
• rounded arches
• masonry vaults

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Politics Society
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Agricultural Society

• Land
• Feudal System
• Manor
• Heredity

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Crusades

• Christian world becomes the aggressor
• 1st Crusade 1095
• 4th Crusade (1202-04)
• Cultural and Economic Consequences

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Pilgrimages

• Dangerous
• Rewards
• Shrines
• Economic social changes

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Constantine Churches of Rome
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Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
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Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
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Reliquary
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Reliquary Statue of Saint Foy, Late 9th Century,
Romanesque
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Pilgrimage Church
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Pilgrimage Church Plan
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Vaulting
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Ribs
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Buttresses
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Plan
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Flourishing Art Changing Society
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Monastic Communities

• Major Landholders
• Aristocracy
• Education Religious Devotion
• Valuable Services

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Cluny III, 1088-1130, Romanesque
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Sculpture
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Images

• Christ Enthroned
• Stories of Jesus
• Virgin Mary
• Old Testament scenes
• Contemporaries
• Monsters
• Plants
• Animal Life
• Allegories

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Romanesque church portal
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Gislebertus, Last Judgement Tympanum Autun,
1120-35 Romanesque
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Detail
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England
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Durham Cathedral, c.1075-1100s, Romanesque
Live picture
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Plan
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Keep
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Nave
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Vaulting
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Rib vault
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Vaulting
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Bayeux Tapestry, c.1066-82, Norman/Romanesque
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Embroidery stitches
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Other Scenes
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Battle
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Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast
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detail
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Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Politics

• Salian dynasty
• Investiture Controversy
• Religious Political problems

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Speyer Cathedral, c.1081-1106, Romanesque
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Interior
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Metalwork

• 3 centers
• German Saxony
• Meuse River valley
• Lower Rhine River valley
• Variety of influences

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Rudolf of Swabia, tomb effigy c.1080, Romanesque
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