Presentation - Romanesque art (2º ESO)

2. Romanesque: artistic style
in Western Europe
between 9th and 12th centuries.
First international style of the
Middle Ages.
Spread thanks monastic orders, the
Crusades and pilgrimages.
Religious art (for glorifying God), in rural areas.

4. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Materials:
Stone
Typologies:
Religious architecture: churches and monasteries.

5. Floor plans  Mostly Latin cross.
- 1, 3 or 5 aisles separated by arches.
- Crossing, covered with a dome (cimborrio).
- Head: semi-circular apses.
- In pilgrimage churches:
- Tribune
- Ambulatory

8. Holding elements:
- Walls  Thick  Few windows.
- Columns and cross-shaped pillars  decorated capitals.
- Buttresses outside.

9. Hold elements:
- Semi-circular arches.
- Barrel vaults.
- Groin vault.

10. Saint Sernin of Toulouse

13. Sainte Foy de Conques

17. Durham Cathedral

18. Pisa Cathedral

23. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

24. Main topics:
- Bible
- Life of Christ
- Virgin with child (Theothrone)
- Saints
- Final Judgement (Pantocrator)

25. PAINTING:
- Wall paintings: on the churches’ walls. Mostly in the apses. Adapted to the
frame.
- On wood.
- Miniatures: for illustrating manuscripts.
- Plain and uniform colours, no perspective, dark lines.
- Hierarchical perspective.
- Themes: Pantocrator, biblical scenes, etc.

26. Pantocrator
San Clemente de Tahull

27. Theothrone
Santa María de
Tahull

28. Altar
Jesus
and the
Apostles
La Seu
d’Urgell

30. Worcester Chronicle

31. SCULPTURE:
Relieves: inserted in the walls, adapted to the frame.
In entrances (archivolts and tympanums) and capitals.
Round bulge sculpture (de bulto redondo).
Wood or ivory.
Christ in the cross, Theothrone Virgin.
Static, rigid, no perspective.