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

Romanesque Architecture

• Five centuries between the fall of Rome in 479 until the new millennium architecture came to a halt.

• Roads, sanitation, water, and Roman laws disappeared• Every building was destroyed soon after its erection by

the illiterate barbarian tribes• 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

• Massive walls for protection on both.

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

Plan of Abbey Church of Saint-Foy

1. Nave2. Aisle 3. Crossing4. Choir5. Transept6. Chancel7. Apse8. Ambulatory9. Radiating chapel

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

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

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

"Weighing the Souls of the Damned"Tympanum Romanesque Sculptures of GislebertusCathedrale St-Lazare, Autun, Saone-et-Loire

Mont. Saint Michel, Normandy, France, 1024-1084

Motto of the monks: “Ora et Labora”

Nave of Mont Saint Michel:Three layer walls:1. Ground floor2. Tribune gallery3. Clerestory windows

Cathedral of Pisa and campanile, 1063-1350.

Bayeux Tapestry,

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