Romanesque: artistic stylein Western Europe between 9th and 12th centuries. First international style of the

Middle Ages. Spread thanks monastic orders, the

Crusades and pilgrimages.

Religious art (for glorifying God), in rural areas.

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

Materials: Stone

Typologies:Religious architecture: churches and monasteries.

Floor plansMostly Latin cross. - 1, 3 or 5 aisles separated by arches. - Crossing, covered with a dome (cimborrio).

- Head: semi-circular apses. - In pilgrimage churches:

- Tribune- Ambulatory

Holding elements: - Walls Thick Few windows. - Columns and cross-shaped pillars decorated capitals. - Buttresses outside.

Hold elements:- Semi-circular arches. - Barrel vaults.- Groin vault.

Saint Sernin of Toulouse

Sainte Foy de Conques

Durham Cathedral

Pisa Cathedral

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

Main topics: - Bible- Life of Christ- Virgin with child (Theothrone)- Saints- Final Judgement (Pantocrator)

PAINTING:- Wall paintings: on the churches’ walls. Mostly in the apses. Adapted to the

frame.- On wood. - Miniatures: for illustrating manuscripts. - Plain and uniform colours, no perspective, dark lines. - Hierarchical perspective. - Themes: Pantocrator, biblical scenes, etc.

Pantocrator

San Clemente de Tahull

Theothrone

Santa María de Tahull

Altar

Jesus and the Apostles

La Seud’Urgell

Worcester Chronicle

SCULPTURE:Relieves: inserted in the walls, adapted to the frame.

In entrances (archivolts and tympanums) and capitals. Round bulge sculpture (de bulto redondo).

Wood or ivory.Christ in the cross, Theothrone Virgin.

Static, rigid, no perspective.