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Romanesque Style

Romanesque Style. Romanesque Churches. Look at the fronts of these different churches and see what they have in common. St. Ambrogio. Vezelay. You notice that they all are basically earthbound. The emphasis is on the horizontal rather than on the vertical.

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Romanesque Style

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  1. Romanesque Style

  2. Romanesque Churches

  3. Look at the fronts of these different churches and see what they have in common.

  4. St. Ambrogio

  5. Vezelay

  6. You notice that they all are basically earthbound. The emphasis is on the horizontal rather than on the vertical.

  7. Look at the back of these churches and see what they have in common.

  8. Vezelay Back

  9. The backs show the apse of each as well as the side chapels. They look like a cluster or cylinders and cubes.

  10. There are several components of a church that you need to know: nave, apse, transcept, ambulatory, clerestory and tympanum.

  11. Nave: the long central aisle of the church.

  12. Vezelay Nave

  13. Apse: a large semicircular recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof, typically at the eastern end, and usually containing the altar.

  14. Apse interior:

  15. Ambulatory: the walkway around the back of the church behind the altar.

  16. Ambulatory Plan

  17. Ambulatory

  18. Transcept turns the church into the shape of a cross

  19. Clerestory: a high series of windows to illuminate the church.

  20. The clerestory is here

  21. Clerestory

  22. Tympanum: a sculptural panel above the front door. The subject is always religious. It marks the crossing from the secular world to the spiritual and reminds people of Biblical stories.

  23. Notice how the sculpture is designed to fit the oddly shaped space much as the sculpture in the pediment of a Greek temple.

  24. Tympanum

  25. Because the church was part of a monastery, there is an addition that you don’t normally see in churches: the cloister.

  26. Mont St. Michel

  27. Montecassino original plan

  28. Monastery Plan

  29. Cluny Plan

  30. Cluny Church Model

  31. Cluny Jigsaw

  32. Illuminated Manuscript Covers

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