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Question 1

Answer 1

• The Priory Church of Paray-le-Monial, 1090, Burgundy
• almost identical to Cluny III
• elaborated chevet with radiating chapels around the apse
• aisle and ambulatory bays are covered with groin vaults
• interior views show how interested builders were in modeling their forms on roman precedent, pilasters on piers and those that divide the blind arcade are fluted.
• ambulatory is narrow but seems spacious because of how it opens to the choir and because of chapels that project from it

Question 2

Answer 2

Cathedral of St Lazare at Autun, 1120, Burgundy

• Sculpture of Gislebertus
• fluted pilasters
• historiated capitals (cain and abel, arc of noah, mary and joseph)
• tempanum sculpture depics last judgement (very typical of romanesque architecture)
• carving of eve - eve knowingly eats forbidden fruit (knowingly accepts consequences of being able to distinguish good and evil)
• nave elevation indebted to precedent of Cluny III and also 2 roman gates

Question 3

Answer 3

Cistercian Abbey Church at Fontenay, 1139

• cistercian order was reaction against sumptuous excess of the cluniac order
• cistercian architecture followed the structural and plan elements of cluniac churches but at a much more modest scale and virtually no decoration

Question 4

Answer 4

Pilgramage Church of La Madeleine, Vezelay

• restored by violet-le-duc
• arches built in polychromatic stone and some have depressed over time
• historiated capitals
• tempanum above central portal very important: contains a scene representing the event of a Pentecost (not last judgement)
• carved by gislebertus
• christ in a mandorla, intended to look as if he is exuding the power of the holy spirit