Unit 3.2: Romanesque and Gothic

The Church of Sainte-Foy

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Romanesque Europe

Medium: Stone (church), gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliquary)

Location: Conques, France

Significance: reliquary holds a relic, part of a tradition of the religious pilgrimages, cruciform plan (builds on the basilica), Ancient Rome influence (columns, arches, domes)

Bayeux Tapestry

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Romanesque Europe

Medium: Embroidery on line

Location: France

Significance: illustrate victory of battle, hierarchical scale, military narrative, decorative elements, LONG piece

Chartres Cathedral

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Gothic Europe

Medium: Limestone, stained glass

Location: Chartes, France

Significance: relic of virgin MARY, dramatic in gothic designs, jamb sculptures (on sides of door, elongated), interior walls divided into 3 parts (clerestory, triforium, arcade), flying butchresses (stone piers for support)

Moralized Bible

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Gothic Europe

Medium: Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera gold leaf on vellum

Location: Toledo, Spain

Significance: bible commission, recognizes as a cultural and religious treasure, provides content for medieval understanding of bible

Golden Haggadah

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Late Medieval Spain

Medium: Illuminated manuscript (pigments and gold leaf on vellum)

Location: Northern Spain

Significance: tells the story of Exodus and the preparation of passover — plagues of Egypt, scenes of liberation, passover

Röttgen Pietà

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Late Medieval Europe

Medium: Painted wood

Location: Germany

Significance: not proptionally accurate, exaggerated marks on hands/feets, intended to be used in prayer, Mary holding her dead son after Cruxifiction

Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation

Artist: Giotto di Bondone

Period/Movement:

Medium: Brick and fresco

Location: Padua, Italy

Significance: biblical stories for Christianity, gold leaf halos, angels, emotional expressions, realistic proportions, dimension/depth, donor portrait, lamentation: Jesus removed from cross and buried