Barron's: Chapter 11 - Romanesque Art Flashcards

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Time Period

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  • 1050-1150

- some objects date as early as 1000 and as late as 1200

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Essential Knowledge

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  • there is no uniform medieval style. some periods revive ancient classicism, others use geometric and natural designs
  • medieval artists are influenced by contemporaries in other parts of Europe, as well as ancient traditions
  • learning was centered on specific fields that were transmitted throughout Europe through trade, pilgrimage, and military activity
  • medieval architecture is mostly religious
  • medieval painting and sculpture avoids naturalistic depictions
  • at times medieval religions will reject images
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Church of Sainte-Foy

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  • c. 1050-1130
  • stone
  • Conques, Frances
  • Romanesque Art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Pilgrimages
    • Great Stupa, Sanchi
    • Kaaba
    • Bamiyan Buddha
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Last Judgment

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  • 1107-1125
  • painted stone
  • Sainte-Foy Conques
  • Romanesque Art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Last Judgment Scenes
    • Giotto, Arena Chapel
    • Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel
    • Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer
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Reliquary of Sainte-Foy

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  • gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood
  • ninth century
  • Romanesque Art
  • Sainte-Foy Conques
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Bayeux Tapestry

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  • 1066-1080
  • embroidery on linen
  • Bayeaux Tapestry Museum, Bayeux France
  • Romanesque Art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Battle Scenes
    • Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
    • Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
    • Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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abbey

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  • a monastery for monks, or a convent for nuns, and the church that is connected to it
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ambulatory

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  • a passageway around the apse of a church
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apse

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  • the end point of a church where the altar is
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arcade

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  • a series of arches supported by columns. when the arches face a wall and are not self-supporting, they are called a blind arcade
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archivolt

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  • a series of concentric moldings around an arch
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axial plan

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  • a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse, so-called because it is designed along an axis
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baptistery

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  • in medieval architecture, a separate chapel or building in front of a church used for baptisms
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bay

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  • a vertical section of a church that is embraced by a set of columns and is usually composed of arches and aligned windows
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campanile

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  • a bell tower of an Italian building
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cathedral

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  • the principal church of diocese, where a bishop sits
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clerestory

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  • the third, or window, story of a church
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embroidery

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  • a woven product in which the design is stitched into a pre-made fabric
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jamb

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  • the side posts of a medieval portal
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last judgment

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  • in Christianity, the judgment before God at the end of the world
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narthex

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  • the vestibule, or lobby, of a church
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portal

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  • a door way
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reliquary

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  • a vessel for holding a sacred relic
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rib vault

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  • a vault in which diagonal arches form rib-like patterns

- partially support a roof

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tapestry

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  • a woven product in which the design and the backing are produced at the same time on a device called a loom
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transept

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  • an aisle in a church perpendicular to the nave
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transverse arch

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  • an arch that spans an interior space connecting opposite walls by crossing from side to side
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trioforium

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  • a narrow passageway with arches opening onto a nave, usually directly below a clerestory
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trumeau

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  • the central pillar of a portal that stabilizes the structure
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tympanum

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  • a rounded sculpture placed over the portal of a medieval church
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voussoir

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  • a wedge-shaped stone that forms the curved part of an arch