FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Claude Monet, Aerial Perspective, Louis Le Vau
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Lecture #05 romanesque architecture and the pilgrimage experience to the beginnings of the early renaissance. Roman imperial buildings (e. g. solid masonry walls, rounded arches, masonry vaults) Coined in early 19 th c to describe european church architecture, which has elements characteristic of. Applied to all arts of the period. Thousands of religious buildings remodeled/newly constructed for: Pilgrimage bodily/some object with which they had contact) Grew out of popularity of relics (remains of saints or christ and virgin mary; can be. Churches built to accommodate and glorify relics. Head reliquary of st. alexander, from abbey church of stavelot, belgium, 1145. Shape is indicative of relic held inside (skull inside) Use of precious materials, no expense spared. Church of st. sernin, toulouse, france, c. 1070-1120. Ambulatory: aisle that extends around the apse; often where side chapels are. Basilica style: long nave, bell tower underneath crossing, aisles on side.
