Worksheet #15

Romanesque Art

v      Identify the following: 

Knights Templar

Last Judgment

Santiago de Compostela

Wiligelmo

v      What are three important effects of the increase in trade among towns especially along pilgrimage route?

a.

b.

     c.

v      Romanesque architecture has several new characteristics. Name them:

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

v      The two important monastic orders during the Romanesque period were:

a.

b.

v      Describe how they differed in philosophies.

v      Using the plan of St. -Sernin, Toulouse, France, identify and define the following terms:

v      Other construction and supporting devices used in Romanesque churches were compound piers, transverse barrel vaults, pilasters, rib vaults, square schematicism.  Define the terms and give one example for each one of a church that uses (used) these devices.

v      What German church is generally thought to be one of the first churches to be fully groin vaulted?

v      What are the proportions between height and width of Northern churches to Italian churches?

v      What is probably the master model for Norman Romanesque architecture?

v      Four progressive features in Romanesque architecture is later modified and used in Gothic architecture.

a.

b.

c.

d.

v      Pisa Cathedral shares features with Early Christian churches as well as has several distinguishing features of its own.  Name and discuss both.

• Label the parts of a Romanesque church portal. . . draw a line to the correct part & define.

v      Define the terms:

            Bestiary –

            Cloister –

            Historiated –

v      Typical Romanesque sculptural conventions, especially those seen carved in the figures at Moissac are: 

               a.

   b.

   c.

v      The tympanums of St.-Pierre Moissac and St.-Lazare at Autun have the same subject matter but are designed and carved differently.  What is the subject and discuss the differences in the two.

The tympanum at Vezelay’s subject matter is the Ascension of Christ.  Explain the image in the 8 panels around the tympanum and what possible connection it has with the location of the church.

• The Bayeux Tapestry depicts what narrative and what technique is used?

v      Stylistic features that are shared by the fresco of Christ in Majesty (Santa Maria de Mur) and the manuscripts from Saint-Omer and Citeaux are:

Discussion questions

1.       What are the distinguishing features of the Romanesque style seen in the church of St.-Sernin at Toulouse (fig. 12-3 to 12-5) compared with the features of Old St. Peter’s in Rome (fig. 8-8)?

2. Compare the carvings from the Adam and Eve frieze at Modena Cathedral by Wiligelmo (17-22) with the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (11-5).  What characteristics appear to be similar and what has changed from 359 CE to 1110 CE?