Romanesque

Question 1

Relic

Answer 1

1. Primary relics - body parts (teeth, bones, skulls)
2. Secondary relic - things that they touch (clothing, chalice)

Question 2

Reliquary

Answer 2

Container for relics

Question 3

Answer 3

Saint Matthias

Workshop of Simone Martini

Question 4

Pilgrimage churches

Answer 4

Designed specifically for travelling pilgrams in mind, who are freaking out due to the new millenium / possible apocolypse.

Had very large occupant capacities and needed to get pilgrims in and out very quickly.

Revival of decorative stone, understood by both educated and illiterate, uneducated pilgrims.

Successes

1. Large, can accommodate many people
2. Fireproof
3. Logical spaces / modular / clearly demarkated bays
4. Geometric clarity and precision

Failures
1. Lighting - very dark due to lack of clerestory

Question 5

Answer 5

Saint Sernin
Toulouse, France

contained relic
latin cross plan

Question 6

Nave

Answer 6

The central area of an ancient Roman basilica
or of a church, demarcated from aisles by piers or
columns.

Question 7

Circumambulatory aisle

Answer 7

allows for traffic flow around the entire perimeter

Question 8

Crossing

Answer 8

The space in a cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept.

Question 9

Apse

Answer 9

A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a building, commonly found at the east end of a church.

Relics may be kept here.

Question 10

Radiating chapels

Answer 10

In medieval churches, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept.

Similar to exedrae.

Question 11

Bays

Answer 11

a modular unit within the nave

Question 12

Answer 12

Interior of Saint Sernin

Decorative roman-inspired columns that reach to top of 2nd level in order to create verticality.

Segmented nave.

Lack of wood - to prevent fires.

Question 13

Piers with engaged columns attached

Answer 13

Compound piers

Question 14

Answer 14

Tympanum / Decorative program of St Lazare
Autun, France

Releif sculpture
Portal (doorway)

Last judgement scene.
Scare pilgrims before entering church.

Way of teaching people biblical stories without words.

Abstracted, elongated attenuated forms similar to byzantine.

Latin words included terrifying statement with artist signature Libertis

Question 15

Roman portal diagram

Answer 15

Question 16

Gothic

Answer 16

Gothic

Used as a term for barbarian, unclassical style.
Deeply religious time, many churches built.

Question 17

What kind of plan is this?

Answer 17

Latin cross plan

Saint Sernin

Question 18

Trumeau

Answer 18

a column supporting a tympanum of a doorway at its center.

Question 19

attenuated

Answer 19

Elongated