Romanesque and Gothic Design

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History Of Graphic Design (AGD 1222)

Lecturer : Pn. Rosyida Binti Mohd Rozlan


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A.D 1000 12th Century :

Romanesque Period

A period where Romanesque stylewas spread widely for the sake ofglory and christianity.

12th

Century 15th

Century :Gothic Period

A period where romanesqueperiod evolved into gothic style.

When?


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Romanesque style wasthe first style to spread

across the Europe.And widely spread to

England, France,Germany, Spain and Italy

and the style is involvewithin it.

Where?


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Romanesque art is spreading into Europe byHiberno Scottich mission on the purpose of

spreading religious/Christianity. The people who developed the art is roman people.

The manuscripts usually created by monks in theearly of middle ages, and most of the manuscripts

were created by more than one person. In 15th Century artist began takeover the work. Tax

records the artist were often women.

Who?


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Christine de Pisan, the

first female writer to earna living from her pen,

defended the status ofwomen.

In this illustration, shedepicts women who have

served the cause ofwomen(female warriors,politicians, goodwives,lovers, and inventors,among others).

Who?


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Romanesque Illuminated

manuscripts are book written

by hand with the decoration,such as decorated initial,border and miniatureillustration.

Embellishment of text withgold or silver gave theimpression that the page hadbeen literally illuminated.

What?


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Romanesque figures are very similar to Byzantine art beingproduced in the Eastern Empire. It is flat, with extremelydistorted, flat perspective -the feet are turned to the side, butthe body is flat, similar to Egyptian heiroglyphs.


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The most lavishly decorated

manuscripts of the period were

mostly bible or psalters.

Rich people sometimescommissioned scribes andartists to produce books forthem called psalters. Thesebooks contained the person'sfavorite psalms (religioussongs that were sung or

chanted in church).

What?


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During the Gothic period, 1220-1500, manuscriptswere produced in all parts of Europe, and many

contained secular art.

After the Black Death in the 1340s, the people thatwere left had more income and less faith in the

church, so the new middle class could purchasemanuscripts.

What?


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Figures became moreanimated, and had

much more depth.

Perspective becamemore realistic, though

still very distorted byRenaissance standards.

What?


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Gothic art, has a real background, not a flat surface.Though the people are stacked up a bit, they are

overlapping, with more depth to their bodies.


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Romanesque Gothic

It is easy to see the difference in Romanesque figuresand Gothic figures.


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Romanesque Unicial/Rustic capital is

informal style handwritten of Romancapital letter.

After the 5th century, rustic capitalsbegan to fall out of use, but theycontinued to be used as a displayscript in titles and headings, alongwith uncial as the script of the maintext.

In this time, Ascenders had alreadybeen use.

Ascenders is a part of letter thatextends. (as shown in the rightpicture with red circle is calledascenders.)

What is Romanesque Unicial?


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Romanesque art spread widely on the purpose ofeducational and religious purpose.

To teach illiterate people about christianity.

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In the making of an illuminated manuscript, the text was usually written

first.

The following steps outline the detailed labor involved to create theilluminations of one page of a manuscript:

1) Silverpoint drawing of the design were executed.

2) Burnished gold dots applied.

3) The application of modulating colors.

4) Continuation of the previous three steps in addition to the outlining ofmarginal figures.

5) The penning of a rinceaux appearing in the border of a page

6) The final step, the marginal figures are painted.

(P.S : its much the same in the note on page 26-29 in Topic 3 Development of EuropeanGraphic Design:Illuminated Manuscripts by Pn. Rosyida)

How?

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