Romanesque is a term given to architecture and art from 1000 AD until about 1150 AD when it was succeeded by the Gothic. The term Romanesque was first used by the French antiquarian Charles-Alexis-Adrien de Gerville in a letter to Auguste Le Prévost (1818).
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Fragment of saint giving a blessing.
Discovered in 1887 this C12 square bowled font has carved scenes from the life of Crist on all four sides.
Robert Curthose (d1134) effigy, of painted Irish bog oak, was made about 100 years after his death.
This C12 font has a circular bowl with a bead decoration which is supported by three crouching Atlas figures supporting the red sandstone bowl.
The north portal of Bourges Cathedral is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Tympanum dates from between 1160 and was part of the older church the the Gothic cathedral replaced. This portal suffered a lot of damage during the Wars of Religion in 1562.
"Presentation in the Temple" panel originally from Saint-Denis near Paris (c1145).
Since its construction in around 1150, the western portal of Chartres Cathedral, decorated with elongated late Romanesque style figures of the Kings and Queens of the Old Testament has been known as the Royal Portal.
The Gothic period is characterized by the early simplicity of naturalistic figures to the late excessively enriched elegance and elaborate clothing of the figures in the later period, the subject matter of Gothic sculpture featured the mysticism of the mid to late medieval age with an emphasis on suffering and emotion.
The Apostles in Art: Witness, Memory, and Transformation
