Romanesque art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular...

European Architecture — Romanesque stone vaulting Graphic History of...

romanesque churches

Mary Magdalene as leader of apostles from St. Alban's Psalter from 12th century

“Romanesque arches.” —D’Anvers, 1895

Romanesque art - Man and confronted animals, Cahors Cathedral

Romanesque Art was the first art movement that could be classified as such in Western Europe following a period known as the Dark Ages. It started around 1000 A.D. and it continued until it was replaced by the art produced by the Gothic Artists in the 12th century. They gradually moved away from the influence of Byzantine art. What's remarkable is that this period in the history of art wasn't referred to as such #Artists #Romanesque #Romanesqueartists

Art #8

Archiepiscopal cathedral at Zara.

Almost the only part of the Saint Lazarus cathedral in Autun that remains Romanesque is the tympanum and its immediate surroundings... but what a masterpiece it is! Sculpted by a master named Gislebertus (Gilbert) who, unusually enough, signed his work. Depicting The Last Judgment, it was sculpted at some point between roughly 1120 and 1140 and is known worldwide. The rest of the cathedral is Gothic. The archivolt shows a Zodiac and the Works of the Months, intertwined.

Romanesque Style / Romanesque System of Vaulting

If you are not French, it’s likely you haven’t ever heard the word “Saintonge”, and have no clue what it means. If you are French, it’s probably the same thing. Unless, that is, you are a fan of Romanesque, in which case you know that Saintonge, that small region of France centered around the town of Saintes (hence the name), not far from the Atlantic Ocean, just North of Bordeaux... features the highest density of Romanesque churches of all the country! I had never visited that area of…

2 v. 25 cm