Romanesque Art History

1. 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

5. Roads, sanitation, water, and Roman laws disappeared

6. Every building was destroyed soon after its erection by the illiterate barbarian tribes

7. 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

9. Nave, Abbey Church of Ste.-Foy, Conques, France, c. early11th Century, Patron Abbot Odolric c. 1052, cloister began by Abbot Begon

10. Nave Aisle Crossing Choir Transept Chancel Apse Ambulatory Radiating chapel Plan of Abbey Church of Saint-Foy

12. Pentecost, the Peoples of the Earth and Saint John the Baptist, Abbey Church of la Madeleine, Vézelay, France, 1120-1132

19. Cloister pier with relief of Abbot Durand, Saint-Pierre Moissac, 1047-1172

20. Last Judgment, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, 1130-1145

21. "Weighing the Souls of the Damned" Tympanum Romanesque Sculptures of Gislebertus Cathedrale St-Lazare, Autun, Saone-et-Loire

22. Mont. Saint Michel, Normandy, France, 1024-1084 Motto of the monks: “Ora et Labora”

23. Nave of Mont Saint Michel: Three layer walls: Ground floor Tribune gallery Clerestory windows

24. Cathedral of Pisa and campanile, 1063-1350.

26. Bayeux Tapestry, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ4D4_E