ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE

NAME OF SHORT PERIOD MATERIALS THE USE OF DISTINCTIVE

SCULPTURE DESCRIPTION USED ELEMENTS CHARACTERISTICS
OF ART OF ARTWORK
AND ERA
LAST A tymphanum High Middle They used  The  The sculpture
JUDGEMENT found in Ages (1130) stone and sculpture show an image
France, made stone carving heavily of Jesus Christ
by the instruments symbolizes in the middle,
sculptor, to make the their shows people
Gislebertus tympanum. religion. trying to get
But the  The into heaven on
structure was sculpture is the left, and
covered with a tympana shows people
plaster in which Is a being judged in
1766 half-circle or Hell on the
triangle right.
shape  Some of the
sculpture famous
wall over a sculptural
doorway or pieces are
window reliquaries,
altar frontals,
crucifixes, and
devotional
images.