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ART IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE 1

Romanesque architecture
Architectonic art
Art intended for an architectural
context:

sculpture
wall hangings
Wall-
paintings
Church reform and the triumph of monasticism

Cluny
Tower of n. transept
The Cistercians

Fontenay
Nave 1130s
The ‘stepped’ or ‘echelon’ plan

La Celle Bruyère, Berry


E. end

Floorplan of St Albans
Caunes. East end. c12th
Radiating floor
plans
Toulouse, St Sernin. East end. Late c11th
Chauvigny, Haut Poitou. Hemicycle. c12th
Cluny
Hemicycle capitals
Late c11th
The flat east end
Noirlac. E. end of church. Mid c12th
Centralised churches
Neuvy St Sepulchre c12th
Rieux-en-Minervois
c12th
The treatment of the west facade

Caen, St Etienne
West front
1070s
La Charité-sur-Loire
NW tower. Early c12th
La Charité-sur-Loire. NW tympanum. Childhood scenes and Assumption
La Celle Bruyère, Berry. Detail of west end
Conques Quercy. West tympanum. Mid c12th
Trogir cathedral
W. Portal inside narthex
Lucca
S. Michele
w. front
Rab cathedral
Croatia
W. front. c12th
Girona
S. Père des Galligants
Adel church, Leeds
Detail of w. end
The treatment of the South side

Adel church, Leeds


S. portal
Adel church, Leeds
Detail of s. portal
Moissac
S. Porch c.1125
Moissac
S. tympanum. C.1125
Moissac
W. Side of S. portal
Dives and Lazarus
Moissac
E. Side of S. portal
Adoration, Annunciation and
Visitation. C.1125
Moissac
E. Side of S, portal
Adoration of Magi
c.1125
Animated architecture:

St Bertrand de Comminges

Moissac. S. door

Valcabrère
Corbel tables
St Desire, Berry (below)
Vouilly, Normandy (right)
The recycling of antique material

St Lizier cathedral
The influence of antique techniques
and forms

Diocletian’s palace in Split.


Groin vaulting of undercroft
Early c4th
Vezelay
Nave vault
1130s
The interior elevation

Winchester
S. transept. 1070s
Durham cathedral. Nave vault. 1130s
St Benoit-sur-Loire
The historiated capital: the death of Cain

Autun
Capital formerly in e. end of church
Moissac
Capital inside S. porch.
c.1125
Girona cathedral
cloisters
Girona Cathedral cloisters. Masons capital. c12th
Moissac. Views of cloisters. c.1105
Fontenay, Burgundy.
Views of chapter house
1130s

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