Romanesque Art1050-1200
Head reliquary of Saint Alexander, 1145
Cult of Relics and Pilgrimage
Head reliquary of Saint Alexander, 1145
Cult of Relics and Pilgrimage
Europe ca. 1100
Initial R with knight fighting dragons.Folio from the Moralia in Job, France ca. 1115
The Crusades11th-13th centuries
Europe ca. 1100
Romanesque Europe:11th-12th centuries
Issues:Cult of RelicsPilgrimageCrusades
Major sites along the pilgrimage roads in France and Spain from the 11th and 12th centuries
Benedictine abbey church at Cluny, France 1088
Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France 1070-1120
Romanesque PortalAbbey Church at Moissac, France, 1100
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum.
Christ in Majesty, Tympanum of the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail.
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France 12th cent. Tympanum, detail of artist inscription: “Gislebertus hoc fecit”