Barron's: Chapter 11 - Romanesque Art Flashcards
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Time Period
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- 1050-1150
- some objects date as early as 1000 and as late as 1200
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Essential Knowledge
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- there is no uniform medieval style. some periods revive ancient classicism, others use geometric and natural designs
- medieval artists are influenced by contemporaries in other parts of Europe, as well as ancient traditions
- learning was centered on specific fields that were transmitted throughout Europe through trade, pilgrimage, and military activity
- medieval architecture is mostly religious
- medieval painting and sculpture avoids naturalistic depictions
- at times medieval religions will reject images
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Church of Sainte-Foy
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- c. 1050-1130
- stone
- Conques, Frances
- Romanesque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Pilgrimages
- Great Stupa, Sanchi
- Kaaba
- Bamiyan Buddha
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Last Judgment
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- 1107-1125
- painted stone
- Sainte-Foy Conques
- Romanesque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Last Judgment Scenes
- Giotto, Arena Chapel
- Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel
- Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer
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Reliquary of Sainte-Foy
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- gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood
- ninth century
- Romanesque Art
- Sainte-Foy Conques
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Bayeux Tapestry
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- 1066-1080
- embroidery on linen
- Bayeaux Tapestry Museum, Bayeux France
- Romanesque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Battle Scenes
- Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
- Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
- Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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abbey
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- a monastery for monks, or a convent for nuns, and the church that is connected to it
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ambulatory
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- a passageway around the apse of a church
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apse
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- the end point of a church where the altar is
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arcade
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- a series of arches supported by columns. when the arches face a wall and are not self-supporting, they are called a blind arcade
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archivolt
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- a series of concentric moldings around an arch
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axial plan
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- a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse, so-called because it is designed along an axis
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baptistery
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- in medieval architecture, a separate chapel or building in front of a church used for baptisms
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bay
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- a vertical section of a church that is embraced by a set of columns and is usually composed of arches and aligned windows
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campanile
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- a bell tower of an Italian building
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cathedral
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- the principal church of diocese, where a bishop sits
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clerestory
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- the third, or window, story of a church
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embroidery
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- a woven product in which the design is stitched into a pre-made fabric
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jamb
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- the side posts of a medieval portal
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last judgment
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- in Christianity, the judgment before God at the end of the world
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narthex
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- the vestibule, or lobby, of a church
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portal
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- a door way
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reliquary
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- a vessel for holding a sacred relic
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rib vault
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- a vault in which diagonal arches form rib-like patterns
- partially support a roof
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tapestry
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- a woven product in which the design and the backing are produced at the same time on a device called a loom
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transept
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- an aisle in a church perpendicular to the nave
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transverse arch
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- an arch that spans an interior space connecting opposite walls by crossing from side to side
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trioforium
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- a narrow passageway with arches opening onto a nave, usually directly below a clerestory
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trumeau
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- the central pillar of a portal that stabilizes the structure
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tympanum
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- a rounded sculpture placed over the portal of a medieval church
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voussoir
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- a wedge-shaped stone that forms the curved part of an arch
