ROMANESQUE ART

Romanesque art
Romanesque art is a Christian country near feudal society. The building is the most important church, which is usually of small proportions, thick walls, few windows and little light inside which invites meditation.
Main elements of Romanesque architecture.
Romanesque art developed in Western Europe from the tenth to the thirteenth.
At first the style was very austere and functional, using mostly broken stone. In the nave applied the vault without ornaments or openings. Very often the gateway located in the southern corner as the only opening, with little double slit windows. The ships could be divided by pillars connected by arches.
At the end of the eleventh century important changes occur as early realizations polished stone sculptural ornamentation of windows, portals, capitals ... Is now the twelfth century, when the building explodes great works of Romanesque paintings murals, takeoff large towers, cloisters ...
The architecture is the main feature of the Romanesque. It is characterized mainly by low ceilings and thick walls.
The churches include:
A distribution in the form of a Latin cross and the main part is divided into three vessels: ship left, right and center. The plant is the highest and amenities. The ships are delimited by the columns and walls.
Their distribution is very symmetrical. Thick walls with loopholes (small windows and generally to the east, west or south covered with alabaster) and / or portholes (small round windows).
Column widths, some decorated capitals (usually the apse) and not others (those that hold more weight, as delimiting the ships).
The columns are joined with arches.
The ceiling of the nave vault and in the central ships in a half barrel vault.
Apse at the end of the nave, sometimes surrounded by an ambulatory.
The capitals decorated with mythological animals and Biblical scenes.
The churches had few windows to prevent the roof collapsed, and the few they had were oriented towards the path of the sun and covered with alabaster (they had discovered glass). The interior was very dark, which contributed to the fear that it gave to the people.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GOTHIC ART

Gothic art is a style that developed in Western Europe during the last centuries of the Middle Ages, from the twelfth

century until the mid fifteenth century

The birth of Gothic architecture and its initial expansion takes place in France.

The cathedrals are the most important buildings of Gothic art.
During the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth builds churches and cathedrals have a new style: Gothic.
They made walls taller and thinner and opened large windows. In this way churches were slender and clear.
The facades were decorated with sculptures and reliefs.
The interior walls were not paintings.
The windows were decorated with stained glass.
The images represent religious scenes.
Some had a great Gothic cathedrals rose by light coming in.