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Romanesque

Made by: People


Architecture
Small windows

Harmonious proportions

Thick walls

Main Massive stones

characteristic Round archers

s: Decorative archade

Large towers

Groin voult

Vaulted ceillings
Cathedral of
Pisa in Italy
• It was built between the
years 1173-1278, that is the
2º biggest church of all Italy
and the 3º biggest church in
the world, and it was made
for religious act.
Castle of
Loarre
in Huesca
• It was used for military
campaigns to protect Navarra
kingdoms; it was built in the 11st
century.
Monastery of
sant cugat in
Barcelona
• It was built between the
years 1190-1220, that is
when all the Romanesque
Cloister took place, and it
was use for write and
decorate manuscript.
How can we
reconise a
romanesque
building: (church)

•In the buildings the halls have semicircular barrel vaults that was the name of the
ceiling of the big corridors. This construction suffer a big problem that was due to the
thick walls and the round archers , there were several forces that made the wall
separate, and the roof go down, because of that the ceiling of many Romanesque
church's corridors aren’t in they place.

•Cathedral floor plans were in a cruciform shape of a Latin cross, in the apse it is where
you could see the fresco or a stained-glass windows, the Dome was a spherical shape
used in the ceilings of the apses.
How we reconised castles of
the romanesque.

• They were made for resist an invasion


and it had thick walls, they were on top
of mountains or hills in order to defend
the areas.
How we reconised
monastery of the
romanesque.

• It was a like a town but isolated with walls and the


people who life in a monastery were the monks,
and the person who ruled was the abbot.
Paitings and
sculptures
General
caracteristics
• There was a major that have a
overchargin and had abstract
representig the religous themes
or scenes and have an impresive
blankness.
• Tipes of paintings
Tipes of
sculptures
Romanesque
Architecture in the
Iberian Peninsula
How did Romanesque
architecture arrive to the
Iberian Peninsula?
• Romanesque spread to the Iberian
Peninsula because of pilgrimage,
crusades, and monasticism, that had
become Christian after a lot of years of
Islamic rule.
Example of a school or type of
Romanesque architecture:

• One of the most important monuments


from the early Romanesque is located in
Aragon and Navarra at the monastery of
Leyre, the main entrance of Santa María
la Real de Sangüesa, the Romanesque
remains of the cathedral of Pamplona,
the circular church of Eunate, the Church
of San Miguel de Estella, and the
Collegiate Church
Romanesque
Painting
• The apse wall-painting from the church of
San Clemente. The church is in a valley in
northern Catalonia (north-east of Spain)
and is typical of the handsome stone-built
churches which sprung up in this region in
the Romanesque period.
Romanesque sculpture

• The Majestat Batlló is a 12th-century


Romanesque wooden crucifix, now in
the National Art Museum of Catalonia in
Barcelona. It is in Catalonia, an image of
Christ on the Cross symbolizing his
triumph over death.

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