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A chevet with ambulatory

Saint Etienne Vignory


1050 A.D.
Romansque in France
A distintive Chevet
Sober elegance
Monumental apse painting
Saint Climent Taull
Spain
Fully
achieved
Romansque
chevet
Saint
Philbert
Tournus
France
The art of stucco Sankt Cyriakus, Gernrode Germany
Rythmic arcades and
openings
The differing rythms of
Arches articulate the
Division of space.
German Romansque
Romansque sculpture
Saint Foy Conques, France
detail of the
Tympanum of the west door
1120-1135
Inspired by Roman triumpal arches Saint Gilles-du-Guard France west façade.
Santiago de Compostella Germany 1075-1122
The Portico de la Gloria at
Santiago de Compostella
Germany
Conventional Butteressing
The oldest historiated Cloister Saint-Pierre Moissac France
The fine medieval façade Notre-Dame, Le Puy-en-Velay France
Sturdy cloister galleries Sainte-Eulalie,Elne, Roussillon
A sample of church’s treasures
French romansque
A semicircular composition on the tympanum of the south portal
French Romansque
Theological synthesis
Saint-Madeleine Vezelay
The mission of the aposteles
Represented on the
tympanum was particularly
Significant during this
period
Harmonious architecture
Saint George's interior
French Romansque
The church furniture in
painted wood
Spanish Romansque façade with Rose window
Anticipating Gothic sculpture Santo Domingo, Soria Spain
Amassive ornate chevet
Modena cathedral Italy
An imposing interior
San Michele Pavia Italy
The openings of the west
Façade
Modena cathedral Italy
Baptistrey Pisa
Tuscan marble 1152
The celebrated leaning tower-
the bell tower Pisa 1173
The blind archade at Pisa cathedral
Mosaic splendour on a gold background San Clement, Rome
San Clemant Rome 12th century interior of the nave
An ornate interior of an
English Romansque
Cathedral
Durhan Cathedral
An impressively
homogeneous interior
Peterborough cathedral
late 12th century
Linchfield Cathedral
Centering of flying
Butresses and groin
vaults
Vertical development
Of Cathedrals 1174- 1322
Abbey of St. Denis
Near Paris
Pinnacle of development
of Gothic wall
elevations
Articulation of
Clerestorey in
Linchfield Cathedral
English Gothic
Perpendicular Period
Flying buttress
With finnals
Reims Cathedral-
French Gothic
Sexpartite vaulting
Peter Borough Cathedral –English Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral-
English Gothic
Parts of a Gothic Church
Coutance
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Notre Dame
Paris
Quadripartite wall
Elevation.
Sexpartite vaulting
Geometry of coloured light
Development of Gothic
Nave and wall articulation

1140 to1227
Gothic compound or membered pier
West Façade of
Strasbourg Cathedral
Tracery work dominates
The entire surface of
Mighty west facade

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