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14 unusual facts about Romanesque art


Adelochus

He is buried in a Romanesque carved sarcophagus supported on couchant lions, and carved with figures in a blind arcade with the Saviour flanked by the kneeling bishop and an angel and in the two outermost panels, a man riding a fish and a man strangling two dragons.

Antón Lamazares

At the conclusion of his travels he stayed briefly in Barcelona, where he took a job as a construction worker, studying the works in its museums, particularly the collections of Romanesque art at the Marés Museum and the National Art Museum of Catalonia in his free time.

Camignolo

The 10th Century chapel of S. Ambrogio (first mentioned in 1348) is rich in frescoes from the late Romanesque and the 15th Century.

Gemünden, Westerwaldkreis

The Evangelical monastery church came into being most likely about the year 1100 and offers visitors, among other things, remnants of Romanesque painting from the 12th century.

Hosín

Hosín is associated with the silhouette of Saints Peter and Paul Church seen from Českých Budějovic from 1899 to 1900, part of which is the original Romanesque church from the 12th to 13th centuries with unique Gothic wall paintings from around 1340

Lisbjerg

Lisbjerg boasts a 12th-century church which housed a Romanesque golden altar.

Magliaso

The romanesque fresco on the south tower dates from around the same time and is one of the few secular romanesque works in Switzerland.

Master Hugo

He is most famous for illuminating the first volume of the Bury Bible, which "have led to a general acknowledgement of Master Hugo as the gifted innovator of the main line of English Romanesque art".

Monastery of Sant Daniel, Girona

It has a cloister with two floors, the lower from the 13th century (with Romanesque decorations) and the upper, in Gothic style, from the 15th century.

Romanesque

Romanesque art, the art of Western Europe from approximately AD 1000 to the 13th century or later

Tetramorph

The symbols of the tetramorphs were most common in the Middle Ages through to the Romanesque period before they fell out of favour and images of the Evangelists in their human forms became more common.

Velika Nedelja

Some Romanesque sculpture is preserved on the facade and the interior of the church.

Villanueva de Sigena

The chapter house housed extremely important Romanesque frescos of about 1200 by largely English artists, probably including some of those who produced the Winchester Bible; this was only realized after their destruction.

Villoslada

Among its monuments highlights the chapel of San Miguel de Párraces, a Romanesque church of centuries XII-XIII, catalogued as national monument, that holds an interesting Romanesque Christ sculpture from the same period known as "Holy Christ".


Doubting Thomas

The typical "touching" representation formed one of a number of scenes sometimes placed around a central Crucifixion of Jesus, and is one of the scenes shown on the Irish Muiredach's High Cross, and the subject of a large relief in the famous Romanesque sculpted cloister at the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos.

Horst Bredekamp

The research foci of Horst Bredekamp are Iconoclastic Fury, sculpture of the Romanesque, art of the Renaissance and Mannerism, political iconography, art and technology, new media.

Mariazell Basilica

This chapel sits on the site of the first "cell" and holds a Late Romanesque miraculous image of the Virgin Mary - the "Magna Mater Austria" - a 48 cm tall statuette made of linden.