Medieval guilds.

*What was a guild?

*What were guilds created for?

*What was decided by the guilds?

*How old were the people when they joined a guild?

*How did they help people?

*At what stage were the members paid?

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 vs Gothic. Architecture.

Romanesque vs Gothic.

*Height.

* Proportion between windows and walls.

*Buttresses.

*Arches.

*Other elements.

Groin vault and rib vault

Gothic architecture. Main features.

Burgos cathedral. Windows predominate over walls.

Flying buttresses.

Flying buttresses (Contrafuertes con arbotantes)

Gargoyles

Milano cathedral. Pinacles.

 

Pinacles.

 

Spires. (Agujas)

Rosewindow (Rosetón)

Notre Dame. Rosewindow.

Notre Dame. Rosewindow in detail.

Stained windows.

Pointed arch (arco apuntado) and Cross vault (bóveda de crucería)

Reims cathedral. Pointed arch and groin vaults.

Pointed arch and cross vault.

Chartres floorplan.

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.

Parts of a cathedral. Latin cross and Greek cross floorplan.

                                         Parts of a cathedral (Spanish)

Parts of a cathedral

Parts of a cathedral. Latin cross floorplan.

 Parts of a Romanesque church.

St Mark´s Greek floorplan.