ART HIS 21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Barrel Vault, Clonfert Cathedral, Groin Vault
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There is a division between western and eastern christianity. Going on at time of the architecture, response to movements. 1054 the two churches byzantine and constantinople in rome have split completely when the pope excommunicate the pope of church of constantinople who does the same in return. The beginning of the investiture conflict: who is allowed to name church hierarch: the king or the pope, who can invest power, begins division of church and state, the king wants the people loyal to him. Benedictians: growth of large orders of monks; have mother and daughter churches that are pan european. Feudalism begins: relationship of lord and vassal with new forms of architecture modeled on roman style. Word romanesque comes from affiliation to the art of rome; ruins of these were throughout ancient europe (modern day term of the period) Attempt to combine under a vault all the subordinate parts of the building into a system.
