Worksheet #13   Romanesque Art

v      Identify the following: 

Bernard of Clairvaux

Last Judgment

Santiago de Compostela

Wiligelmo

v      What were the effects of the increase in trade among European towns especially along pilgrimage routes? (p. 447-448)

v      Romanesque architecture has several new characteristics. They are: (p.448-450)

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

v      Identify and describe how the two major monastic orders differed in philosophy.  (p. 453 & 461 [inset]))

v      What does it mean to be groin vaulted?  (p. 450 & 454)

• Label the parts of a Romanesque church portal. . . & define.     archivolts     jambs    lintel    truneau    tympanum    voussoir  (p. 463 [inset])

v      Using the plan of St. -Sernin, Toulouse, France, identify and define the following terms: (p. 450-53)

v     How do Northern and Italian churches differ?  (p. 454-456)

v      Four progressive features in Romanesque structural architecture are later modified and used in Gothic architecture. (p. 454-456)

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. (p. 458-459)

v      Typical Romanesque sculptural conventions, especially those seen carved in the figures at Moissac are:  (p. 462)

               a.

   b.

   c.

v      Identify the subject and discuss the differences in the tympanums of St.-Pierre Moissac and St.-Lazare at Autun.  (p. 462-465)

• Using the Morgan Madonna, discuss the changing style of sculpture during this late Romanesque period.  (p. 468

• Select one of the illustrated manuscripts from p.472-474 and discuss style and technique.

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts what narrative and what technique is used? (p. 475-476)

Discussion questions

 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?