Download or read book Romanesque Churches of the Loire and Western France written by Michael D. Costen and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling flowering of church building in western France during the 11th & 12th cent. took place against a background of profound social change & incessant political upheaval & warfare. The regions covered here are the dioceses of Angers, Poitiers, Angouleme, Tours & Saintes. Against the political background of the rise of the feudal nobility & the spread of castles, this book looks at the reorganization of the dioceses & the foundation of the monasteries, & at the local patronage & parochial system which led to the building of churches. With over 100 plans & specially taken color & b&w photos, the authors examine the architectural styles, their sculpture, decoration & painting. A Gazetteer lists the major Romanesque monuments of the region.

Download or read book Romanesque Churches of the Loire Western France written by M. D. Costen and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romanesque Architecture in France written by Julius Baum and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romanesque architecture in France written by Julius Baum and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1912-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romanesque Churches of France written by Peter Strafford and published by Giles de La Mare. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Romanesque Churches of France, which covers a hundred or so churches in ten geographical sections from Normandy and Burgundy in the north to Provence, Roussillon and Languedoc in the south, is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subject. It is an ideal companion for travelers, with its many maps and its regional arrangement, and will be a stimulus for the exploration of remote and beautiful areas that are less familiar, such as Auvergne and the Pyrenees. It will also be invaluable as a reference book for all those with a general interest in the history of French architecture and sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800 to 1200 written by Kenneth John Conant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain.

Download or read book The Hall churches of Western France and Their Relation to the General Development of the Hall Space in the Romanesque and Early Gothic Periods written by Karen Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cathedrals of Northern France written by Milburg Francisco Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cathedrals of Northern France written by Francis Miltoun and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romanesque and the Mediterranean written by Rosa Bacile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sixteen papers collected in this volume explore points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds between c. 1000 and c. 1250. They arise from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in Palermo in 2012, and reflect its interest in patterns of cultural exchange across the Mediterranean, ranging from the importation of artefacts - textiles, ceramics, ivories and metalwork for the most part - to a specific desire to recruit eastern artists or emulate eastern Mediterranean buildings. The individual essays cover a wide range of topics and media: from the ways in which the Cappella Palatina in Palermo fostered contacts between Muslim artists and Christian models, the importance of dress and textiles in the wider world of Mediterranean design, and the possible use of Muslim-trained sculptors in the emergent architectural sculpture of late-11th-century northern Spain, to the significance of western saints in the development of Bethlehem as a pilgrimage centre and of eastern painters and techniques in the proliferation of panel painting in Catalonia around 1200. There are studies of buildings and the ideological purpose behind them at Canosa (Apulia), Feldebro (Hungary) and Charroux (Aquitaine), comparative studies of the domed churches of western France, significant reappraisals of the porphyry tombs in Palermo cathedral, the pictorial programme adopted in the Baptistery at Parma, and of the chapter-house paintings at Sigena, and wide-ranging papers on the migration of images of exotic creatures across the Mediterranean and on that most elusive and apparently Mediteranean of objects - the Oliphant. The volume concludes with a study of the emergence of a supra-regional style of architectural sculpture in the western Mediterranean and evident in Barcelona, Tarragona and Provence. It is a third volume, based on the British Archaeological Association's 2014 Conference in Barcelona, will explore Romanesque Patrons and Processes."

Download or read book Romanesque Art written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.

Download or read book South western France written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by London : G. Allen. This book was released on 1890 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cathedrals and churches of France written by France. Ministère des travaux publics and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romanesque Cathedrals and Abbeys of France written by Marcel Aubert and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Open Access written by Mickey Abel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Access: Contextualizing the Archivolted Portals of Northern Spain and Western France within the Theology and Politics of Entry explores the history, development, and accrued connotations of a distinctive entry configuration comprised of a set of concentrically stepped archivolts surrounding a deliberate tympanum-free portal opening. These “archivolted” portals adorned many of the small, rural ecclesiastical structures dotting the countryside of western France and northern Spain in the twelfth century. Seeking to re-contextualize this configuration within monastic meditational practices, this book argues that the ornamented archivolts were likely composed following medieval prescriptions for the rhetorical ornamentation of poetry and employed the techniques of mnemonic recollection and imaginative visualization. Read in this light, it becomes clear that the architectural form underlying these semi-circular configurations served to open the possibilities for meaning by making the sculptural imagery physically and philosophically accessible to both the monastic community and the lay parishioner. Pointing to an Iberian heritage in which both light and space had long been manipulated in the conveyance of theological and political ideologies, Abel suggests that the portal’s architectural form grew out of a physical and social matrix characterized by pilgrimage, crusade, and processions, where the elements of motion integral to the Quadrivium sciences of Math, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music were enhanced by a proximity to and cultural interaction with the Islamic courts of Spain. It was, however, within the politics of the Peace of God movement, with its emphasis on relic processions that often encompassed all the parishes of the monastic domain, that the “archivolted” portal, with its elevated porch-like space, are shown to be the most effective.

Download or read book The Tastes of Travel written by Elisabeth De Stroumillo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1980 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Chronology of Western Architecture written by Doreen Yarwood and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible to casual and serious readers alike, this comprehensive survey ranges from 2000 BC to the 1980s and features more than 1,000 chronologically arranged photographs and drawings. Each of the 105 two-page spreads represents a specific era and includes comments on architectural details and historical events of the period.