Santa Maria Laach Abbey. German Romanesque.

Romanesque sculpture.Features.

*Most sculptures were reliefs. They were sculpted in different parts of a church (porticos, capitals, columns ...) Some other sculptures were free-standing sculptures carved in wood and painted with bright colours.
*Images of Christ being crucified, Virgin Mary and other religious motifs.

 

Pórtico de la Gloria (Santiago de Compostela)

Capital. Christ washing his apostles´feet.

Tympanum.Vezelay.

Romanesque virgin.

Christ of Sobrarbe. Asín de Broto. Huesca.

Romanesque painting. Features.

 

Pantocrator (Apse of Saint Clement of Tahull-Lérida)

*Christ in Majesty (Pantocrator)

*Hand raised for blessing.

*Mystic almond or mandorla.

*Book: "Ego sum lux mundi".

* Letters Alpha and Omega: He is the beginning and the end.

*Four evangelists around Christ.

*Big eyes.

*Fresco.

 

Altar frontal from La Seo d´Urgell. Painted on wood.

 

Altar frontal from Aviá. Tempera and other materials.

 

Mural painting of Saint Pere de Sorpe. (Detail)

Figures were not natural. They were rigid and showed no movement and no perspective. They didn´t show realistic features. The aim was to move emotions and teaching.

 

Manuscript.

Romanesque architecture. Features.

Parts of a Romanesque façade. (Spanish)

San Martín de Fromista. Small windows. Walls predominate over windows. 

Dome (cimborrio). Steeple (Bell tower).

Las Huelgas (Burgos). Butresses.

Barrel vault (Bóveda de cañón) and semicircular arches (arcos de medio punto)

Groin vault (Bóveda de arista) I

Groin vault (Bóveda de arista) II

Romanesque façade.

Romanesque floorplan.

San Clemente de Tahull. Pantocrator. Romanesque painting.

Pantocrator. San Climent de Tahull.

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral.

Obradoiro façade

Altar

Inside

Platerías gate.

Pórtico de la Gloria

Inside II

Romanesque. Architecture

                                         Jaca Cathedral

San Millan church. Segovia.

                                          San Climent de Taull

                                         San Martín de Frómista. Palencia.

 

Santa María de Sangüesa. Navarra.

 

San Isidoro de León.

Romanesque vs Gothic architecture