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Evaluating Trachtenberg’s Medieval Modernism theory
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Romanesque Cathedral of St.-Lazare, Autun, France, 1120-46 w/ 15th-cen. Gothic additions
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Romanesque Cathedral of St.-Lazare, Autun, France, 1120-46
the pilasters: “self-conscious, knowing, modernizing distortions of the very antiquity to which these same buildings are so powerfully attached” (Trachtenberg 2000, 203n11).
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Conrad’s Speyer Cathedral, 1030-61Constantine’s Basilica (aula nova) at Trier, 305-312
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Henry IV’s Speyer Cathedral, 1080sConrad’s Speyer Cathedral, 1030-61
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Romanesque Cluny III in photo montage recon. of crossingrecon. of nave
Cluny III: “scattered, episodic, fragmentary, often superficial modernist gestures” (187).
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rib vaults of Chartres Cathedral, 1194-1260groin vaults of Speyer Cathedral, 1080s
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Nôtre-Dame, Paris
nave elevation looking west
1150-55
nave elevation looking east
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Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, 1194-1221
I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Labyrinths
12.85 m. diameter maze installed in 1215-21
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Chartres Cathedral – maze installed in 1215-21
I. Symbolism Labyrinths
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Chartres Cathedral – labyrinth defining difference between west vs. east end of the church
I. Symbolism Labyrinths
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Silver coin from Knossos on the island of Crete, Greece, 325 BCE
(No maze found in the palace at Knossos)
Mazes in the Greek world
Floor mosaic of a Roman villa near Cremona, Italy, 1st cen. CE
Mazes in the Roman worldDaedalus – mythical architect,
creator of the labyrinth
I. Symbolism Labyrinths
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Early Christian El-Asnam CathedralEl-Asnam, Algeria, 324, floor mosaic
Detail of the labyrinth El-Asnam CathedralAlgeria, ca. 324 CE
Mazes in early Christian churches
I. Symbolism Labyrinths
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I. Symbolism Labyrinths
Location of floor labyrinths in medieval churches
Romanesque San Michele in Pavia Italy, 1100-1150
Small scale labyrinths in Italy
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Reims Cathedral, Reims, France, c. 1211-1290 – labyrinth now lost
I. Symbolism Labyrinths
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Reims Cathedral, Reims, France, c. 1211-1290
I. Symbolism Labyrinths
Memory of the promethean architect / demiurge honored
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Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France, 1220-1269 – labyrinth is a modern reconstruction
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I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals
Chartres Cathedral – façade (west) Chartres Cathedral – Royal Portal (façade portal) (early Gothic 1145-55)
Ascension Christ in Majesty Virgin portal (incarnation)
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I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals – Christian belief and intellectual life
Chartres Cathedral – Virgin Portal Chartres Cathedral – Royal Portal (façade portal) (early Gothic 1145-55)
Ascension Christ in Majesty Virgin portal (incarnation)
Encyclopedic in scope – like the compendia written by scholastic philosophers
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Chartres Cathedral – south transept portal – three portals dedicated Last Judgment theme(High Gothic 1205-40)
I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals – Christian belief and intellectual life
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Chartres south transept portal (High Gothic 1205-40)
I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals – Christian belief and intellectual life
Human figure used to embody metaphysical ideals
Early Gothic defined, cylindrical, attenuated column figures
“Classical” St. George
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Chartres Cathedral – south transept (High Gothic 1205-40)
I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals – Christian belief and intellectual life
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I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals
Chartres Cathedral – façade (west) Chartres Cathedral – Royal Portal (façade portal) (early Gothic 1145-55)
Ascension Christ in Majesty Virgin portal (incarnation)
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I. Symbolism in High Gothic great churches Sculpted portals – Christian belief and intellectual life
Chartres Cathedral – Virgin Portal Chartres Cathedral – Royal Portal (façade portal) (early Gothic 1145-55)
Ascension Christ in Majesty Virgin portal (incarnation)
Encyclopedic in scope – like the compendia written by scholastic philosophers