Romanesque art

Romanesque art

1. Paintings

   • Function
     • Didactic
   • Types
     • On wood, wall paintings, miniatures
   • Places
     • Wall, apses
   • Topic
     • Religious, Old and New testament
   • Style
     • Rigid, adapted to the frame, hieratic, non realistic, without real perspective. Use of hierarchical perspective, figures are organized according to importance. No empty space (horror vacui)
   • Colours
     • Polychromy with black outlines
   • Parts

2. Sculptures

   • Function
     • Didactic
   • Main materials.
     • Stone and wood.
   • Places
     • In portals, doorways, capitals, cornices, altars.
   • Topic
     • Religious, Old and New testament: Crucifixion of Christ and the Virgin and the Child.
   • Style
     • Rigid, adapted to the frame, hieratic, non realistic, without real perspective. Use of hierarchical perspective, figures are organized according to importance.
   • Colors
     • Polychromy. They were painted in bright colours
   • Sculptures had to adapt to the shape and dimensions of the surface on which they were made.
   • Examples

3. Why?

   • End of Barbarian invasions. Decomposition of Cordoba’s caliphate. Peace in the Christian world, development of the cities, commerce and industry.

4. Expantion

   • Development of feudal system that demanded works (castles) – expansion religious orders (Benedictines), expanded the monasteries – The pilgrimage routes – The crusades

5. Architecture

   • Main buildings
     • Castles, monasteries and churches.
       • Churches
         • Main building. God's kingdom. Holiest part - apse. Cross shape. Simbolism: circles - God. Squares- human.
         • Characteristics:
         • Parts
       • Monastery
       • Castle
   • Types of floor pan
     • mainly Latin cross plan with one or more apses
   • Supporting elements
   • Supported elements
     • Barrel vault
       • is the simplest form of a vault, it is a curved roof, formed by a series of arches placed side by side.
     • Groin vault
       • It is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. The word groin refers to the edge between the intersecting vaults
   • Main materials
     • Stone bricks.
   • Walls
     • Thick walls with buttress.
   • Windows
     • few and small, making the building dark and cold
   • Decoration
     • few decoration except for the portal, inside reliefs in the capitals and wall paintings.
   • Aspects
     • Romanesque buildings have an emphasis on horizontal lines

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