Romensque and Medieval Art

Question 1

Answer 1

Christ and Disciples on the Road to Emmaus

• c. 1100
• life-sized relief
• walk after the resurection
• in pilgrim garb (cockle shell of St. James, barefoot)
• Jesus is tallest and has cruciform halo

Question 2

Answer 2

Church of St. Vincec

• Cardona, 1020s
• very plain, stone interior
• austere alter
• barrel vaults and arches

Question 3

Answer 3

Church of St. Celemente

• Rome, 1128
• Later Romanesque, almost Gothic
• Balduchine (canopy over pulpit)
• very elaborate decoration

Question 4

Answer 4

Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy (St. Faith)

• Conques, France, 800s-900s
• wooden core with gold lead and jewels

Question 5

Answer 5

Abbey Church of Notre-Dame

• Fontenay, 1139-1147
• Cisctercian church
• bare, simpe construction
• acoustically perfect
• pointed arches

Question 6

Answer 6

Durham Cathedral

• Durham, 1087-1133
• altered several times
• Rose window over nave = later addition
• Spanish/Moorish influence - geometry
• ribbed groin vaults

Question 7

Answer 7

Creation and Fall

• Modena Cathedral, Italy, 1099
• 1) God with mandorla creating world
• 2) God creating Adam
• 3) God creating Eve
• 4) Original sin
• rigid postures, particularly sleeping Adam

Question 8

Answer 8

Last Judgement Tympanum

• Autun, France, 1120-45
• damned on right, saved on left
• maybe only signed Medieval work (Gislebertus
• graphic about punishments
• flat relief

Question 9

Answer 9

Magi Asleep and the Flight into Egypt

• Capitals at Autun, 1125

Question 10

Answer 10

Virgin and Child

• Auvergne, France, late 1200s
• Oak
• Rippling of robe
• “Throne of Wisdom”

Question 11

Answer 11

Abbey Church of St. Denis

• France, 1140-44
• 1st known Gothic building
• designed by Abnot Suger
• pointed arches, striving towards heaven
• open architecture: thin pillars, windows at eye level and stained glass
• “A space to float b/n heaven and earth”
• used a sn example for other cathedrals

Question 12

Answer 12

The Flight into Egypt

• window in Abbey Church of St.-Denis
• tree of life

Question 13

Answer 13

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris

• Paris, 1163-1270s
• Gothic/Romanesque hybrid
• outer flying buttresses

Question 14

Answer 14

Chartres Cathedral (Nortre-Dame)

• Chartres, c. 1195-1250
• rebuilt many times
• spires asymetrical
• 3 portals with elaborate tympana
• Rose window
• Good Samaritan window

Question 15

Answer 15

Reims Cathedral

• Reims, France, 1211-1428
• hugely elaborate tympanum
• two rose windows

Question 16

Answer 16

Masons at Work

• c 1240
• painting from secular church
• shows masons building church
• show how difficult this was

Question 17

Answer 17

Sainte-Chapelle Chapel

• Paris, 1239-1248
• quite small
• almost all stained glass
• delicate gold pillars
• two levels
• ceiling painted with stars

Question 18

Answer 18

Windmill Psalter

• c 1270-80
• named b/c owner unknown
• illuminated B takes up all of left page, contains tree of Jesse (Jesus’s family)
• crosshatched decoration and animals = viking influence

Question 19

Answer 19

Queen Blanche and King Louis IX

• of Castile; Paris, 1226-34
• depicts them as great readers
• gold leaf

Question 20

Answer 20

Salisbury Cathedral

• England, 1220-58
• English gothic
• large space of greenery surrounding
• less concerned with hight of spires
• spire on transept, not portal

Question 21

Answer 21

St. Maurice

• Magdeburg Cathedreal, Germany 1240-50
• realism

Question 22

Answer 22

Nicola Pisano Pulpit

• Pisa, 1260
• Annunciation, Nativity and Adoration of the Shephards
• all crowded together
• elaborate and ecclectic

Question 23

Answer 23

Giovanni Pisano’s Pulipt

• Pisa, 1302-10
• son of Nicola
• Nativity scene
• more graceful
• more space
• movement