ESP 1101 Lecture Notes - Relief, Anagoge, Transept
22 Apr 2014
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Groin vaults (where two barrel vaults met at a right angle) Mainly religious art (mostly anonymous, no names of painters, architects, carvers ect. ) Spread in spain along the camino de santiago. Monumental sculpture is the romanesque art form par excellence. In an allegory, a visible fact is signified by another visible fact. In an anagoge, from a visible fact, an invisible is declared. Then saith eh to thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing (john 20:27) Free-standing sculpture practically disappeared from western art after the 5th c. Vila, matrydom of st. vincent (born in huesca, died 304) Tortured in gridiron, leg bone in notre dame of paris, lack of emotion. P rtico de la gloria, heaven"s portal or gate, santiago cathedral 1168-1188. The figures are not just added; they seem to grow out of the masonry.
