Alternative Education Project Citizen - Professor Cássia Silveira Text 14 - Rom

anesque and Gothic Art

Table comparing and Romanesque styles Gótico1: Season Features Local Structure
Plan constructions Facade Decoration Internal Painting Sculpture Grounds Grounds
sociological philosophical Grounds of Religious Romance XI-XII centuries, until
the thirteenth in Italy and Spain. Southern Europe: places with plenty of stone
and strong natural light. Shaped cruciform (cross shaped) horizontally, compact
ness; buildings were called "strongholds of God." Canopy crib, thick pillars, wa
lls wide. Architectural elements (columns, arches, ribs etc) and mural painting.
Integrated architecture. Two-dimensional (only in two dimensions) geometry. Ass
ociated with the fief-clericalism. Augustinian Neoplatonism. Symbolism. Middle o
f XII century Gothic to the late fifteenth century. Northern Europe: places with
a lot of limestone, little light, but with stained glass timber to blow. Crucif
orm Verticality, lightness, presence of "shrine". Ogival vault. Stained glass. A
utonomous art. By the twelfth century Romanesque to prey, then start of Naturali
sm in Italy (Giotto). Associated with the development of urban segments. Scholas
tic Aristotelianism. Naturalism.
Figures illustrating the above characteristics: cruciform plan:
Pisa Cathedral: its plant has shape of a cross. Romanesque style.
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Table extracted from the book JUNIOR, Hilary Franco. Ages: birth of the West. SÃ
£o Paulo: Brasiliense, 2001.
Horizontal facade:
Cathedral of Pisa: Looking to build out, we realized that it "spreads" the land
horizontally. Romanesque style.
Church of Santa Maria de Ripoll: just as the Cathedral of Pisa, presented horizo
ntally.
Vertical facade:
Chartres Cathedral: unlike the Cathedral of Pisa and the Church of Santa Maria d
e Ripoll, this cathedral was built with vertical structure, as if he could "reac
h God". Gothic style.
Inside the Cathedral of Chartres. Also notice the vertical. Gothic style.
Compactness:
Murbach Abbey: the building has no lightness, it is compact and heavy. Romanesqu
e style. So this style was built known as "Fort God."
Lightness:
Siena Cathedral: the Gothic buildings, unlike in the Romanesque style, the struc
ture has lightness, as if, once again, could reach the heavens. Remember the "sa
nd castles." Gothic.
Reliquary:
Gothic Reliquary of 1426: part where the relics were kept.
Barrel vault:
Cathedral of Evora: the vault (top arches) is the cradle. Romanesque style.
Ogival vault:
The dome is ogival Gothic pointed arches.
Thick pillars:
Saint-Benoit: Romanesque style. Presence of thick support columns inside. This p
icture also shows some internal decorations of the buildings in the Romanesque s
tyle, as the presence of columns, arches, ribs etc..
Mural:
Inside the Romanesque buildings, we found as a decorative element also murals, i
n which images appear in only two dimensions (two dimensional).
Windows:
Chartres Cathedral: As part of interior decoration, the Gothic buildings used to
stained glass.
Sculpture integrated into the architecture:
Romanesque Sculpture: The Romanesque art, the sculpture appears integrated into
the architecture.
Autonomous art:
Gothic Sculpture: Out on Gothic art, the sculpture may appear autonomously witho
ut being integrated into the architecture.
Romanesque Painting:
In Romanesque painting dominated by two-dimensional shapes and geometric.