Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

cross there. Finally, the Vézelay church was the site where King Richard the Lionhearted of England and King Philip Augustus of ...

through the large windows in the flat east wall and because the aisle bays have transverse barrel vaults(tunnel-like vaults perp ...

Romanesque terms. The page with the initial R may be a reliable pic- ture of a medieval baron’s costume. The typically French Ro ...

impressive is the fresco (FIG. 17-17), now in Boston, that once filled the apse of Santa María de Mur, a monastery church not fa ...

requirement—lighting. Due to the great outward thrust barrel vaults exert along their full length, even when pointed instead of ...

corners of the groin vaults. Speyer’s interior shows the same striving for height and the same compartmentalized effect seen in ...

Painting and Other Arts The number and variety of illuminated manuscripts dating to the Romanesque era attest to the great deman ...

Matthias at Trier between 1150 and Hildegard’s death in 1179, but it is possible that Hildegard supervised production of the boo ...

pope’s relics, is one of the finest examples. The almost life-size head, fashioned in repoussé silver with bronze gilding for th ...

Muslims off Palermo in Sicily in 1062 provided the funds for the Pisan building program. The cathedral, its freestanding bell to ...

452 Chapter 17 ROMANESQUE EUROPE 17-28Wiligelmo, creation and temptation of Adam and Eve, detail of the frieze on the west facad ...

the weight shift that is the hallmark of classical statuary. Yet the sculptor’s conception of this prophet is unmistakably roote ...

454 Chapter 17 ROMANESQUE EUROPE 17-31Interior of Saint-Étienne, Caen, France, vaulted ca. 1115–1120. The groin vaults of Saint- ...

simple pillars ornamented with abstract designs (diamond, chevron, and cable patterns, all originally painted) alternate with co ...

456 Chapter 17 ROMANESQUE EUROPE T he most famous embroidery of the Middle Ages is, ironically, known as the Bayeux Tapestry (FI ...

Painting and Other Arts Many of the finest illustrated manuscripts of the Romanesque age were the work of monks in English scrip ...

exaggerated his importance by likening his image to that of an evan- gelist writing his gospel and by including an inscription w ...

FRANCE AND NORTHERN SPAIN ❚Romanesquetakes its name from the Roman-like barrel and groin vaults based on round arches employed i ...

18-1Rose window and lancets, north transept, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, ca. 1220. Stained glass, rose window 43 in d ...

I n 1550, Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), the “father of art history,” first used Gothicas a term of ridicule to describe late medie ...