Vocabulary• Cloisone enamel

• Hiberno-Saxon

• Illuminated Manuscript

• Codex

• Barrel vault

• Groin vault

• Transept

• Ambulatory

• Radiating chapels

• Tribunes

• Compound piers

• Springing

• Transverse arches

• Tripartite division

• Quadrant arches

• Buttress

• Portal

• Mandorla

• Tympanum

The Early Middle Ages in the West• Period of time between the Classical Roman empire and

the Renaissance• Migration Period- Different tribes settle western Europe,

carving out many of today’s countries and regions.• Western European cultures convert to Christianity and

monastic culture grows• Familiar with Roman influence; Romanesque refers to the

Roman style of architecture• Period of Crusades and Pilgrimages; 4 crusades in 1090,

1147, 1190, 1204• Beginning of Holy Roman Empire, 800 CE

Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625

•King Raedwald

Norse, Lion Head Post, Oseberg Ship Burial, 825

Celtic Christian,

High Cross of

Muiredach

Ireland, 923

Hiberno-Saxon, Book of Durrow,

St. Matthew, Britain, 660-680

•Insular•Codex•Manuscript Illumination•Author page•tonsure

Book of Durrow, St. Mark

•Author Page

Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne

Gospels, Cross-Carpet Page,

Britain, 689-721

•Carpet page

Hiberno-Saxon, The Book of

Kells, Chi-Rho page, Iona,

Britain, ca. 800

•Initial page•Christi autem generatio

Detail of Chi RhoBook of Kells

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Carolingian, Equestrian Statue of

Charlemagne, 9th century,

France

•Renovatio Romani Imperii•Holy Roman Empire 800-843

Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels of

Charlemagne, Aachen,

Germany, ca. 800-810

Carolingian, St. Matthew, Ebbo

Gospels, 816-35, France

•Charlemagne•Monastery•Scriptorium

Crucifixion, cover of the

Lindau Gospels from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca.

870

Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, 792-805

Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne

San Vitale, Ravenna, 547

Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819

Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819

•Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew, 698-72, Britain

•Hiberno-Saxon, Codex Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra, 689-716, Britain

St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001-31

Ottonian, St. Michael’s, 1001-1031, Germany

•Choir•Piers•Nave arcade•Alternating Support System

St. Michael’s plan

Ottonian, Bronze Column,

St. Michael’s, 1022

Bronze Doors, St. Michael’sHildesheim, Germany, 1015

Colum of Trajan, Rome,

113 AD

Bronze doors, St. Michael’s,

Hildesheim, Germany, 1015

Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France, 1070-1120

•Pilgrimage Type•Transept

St. Sernin, Plan

Basilica of St. Sernin

AmbulatoryRadiating chapels

Basilica of St. Sernin, Interior

Nave

•Tribunes•Compound piers•Springing•Transverse arches

Abbey Church of St.-Etiénne,

Caen, France, 1067-1120

•Tripartite division•Buttresses

Abbey Church of St.-Etiénne,

Interior Nave

•Groin Vault•Ribs•Sexpartite vault

Cathedral at Durham,

England, begun 1093

•Quadrant arches•Alternate Support system•Ribbed groin vault

Pisa Cathedral Complex, Italy, Begun 1063

Tuscan Romanesque

•Arcaded Galleries•Cornice

Master Giselbertus, Tympanum, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare,1120-1146

Weighing of the Souls, Tympanum

detail, Saint-Lazare, 1120-1146

St. Alexander reliquary, Belgium,

1145

Burial of King Edward

The Bayeux Tapestry, Romanesque, English, 1066-86

King