Romanesque Art Characteristics
(4)
churches with high stone vault ceilings, round arches, compound
piers altered church plans to accommodate pilgrims
stone sculpture decorating the doorways artworks
serving a commemorative purpose
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Reliquary statue of Sainte Foy (Saint Faith)
late 10th- early 11th century CE
Romanesque
Conques, France
gold, silver, and jewels over a wood core
Shows continuity
Preservation/Display of Bodily Remains
Neolithic Skull Mask of Tutankhamen
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Saint-Sernin
1070-1120 CE
Romanesque
Toulouse, France
stone
Innovative
buttresses barrel vault compound piers
tribunes bay, ambulatory, radiating chapels
Shows continuity
Basilica plan church
Old St Peters Basilica
Artist
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Gislebertus
Last Judgement Tympanum, Saint-Lazare
1120-1135 CE
Romanesque
Autun, France
marble
Innovative
Tympanum
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Bayeux Tapestry
1070-1080 CE
Romanesque
Bayeux, France
embroidered wool on linen
Continuity
Battle Narrative
Column of Trajan
Gothic Art Characteristics
(5)
architectural features: pointed arches, ribbed groin vaults,
flying buttresses churches made of stone with soaring
ceilings walls pierced by stained glass windows
exterior stone sculpture surrounding the entry portals
figural sculpture transitions between stylization and naturalism
(late gothic: gothic s curve)
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Chartres Cathedral
1145-1155 CE
Early French Gothic
Chartres, France
stone, wood, and glass
Innovative
flying buttresses ribbed groin vaults
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Old Testament Kings and Queens, Royal Portal, Chartres Cathedral
1145-1155 CE
Early French Gothic
Chartres, France
stone
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Rose Window, North Transept, Chartres Cathedral
1220 CE
High French Gothic
Chartres, France
stained glass
Innovative
stained glass rose window
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Saint Theodore, South Transept, Chartres Cathedral
1230 CE
High French Gothic
Chartres, France
stone
Innovative
Increased naturalism
Continuity
Jamb Statues
Old Testament Kings and Queens
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Sainte-Chapelle
1243-1248 CE
High French Gothic
Paris, France
stone, wood, glass
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris)
early 14th century CE
Late French Gothic
Paris, France
stone
Innovative
Gothic S curve
Characteristics of Duecento Art
Sculpture: displays Greco-Roman influence
naturalism of forms and figures
Painting: displays Byzantine influence
stiff formality, gold backgrounds, and stylization of
figures
Artist
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Nicola Pisano
Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds, Pisa
Baptistery Pulpit
1259-1260 CE
Duecento
Pisa, Italy
Marble
Continuity
Reclining Pose
Tomb of the Leopards
Roman-style Relief
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Artists
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Cimabue
Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets
1280-1290 CE
Duecento
Florence, Italy
tempera and gold leaf on wood
Continuity
Maniera Greca
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and
George Icon
Heavenly Gold Background
Justinian, Bishop Maximinaus, and Attendants
Characteristics of Trecento Art
PAINTING
increased naturalism weighty, 3D bodies
attempts to construct illusion of depth introduction of
naturalistic settings greater emotional expression
Artist
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Giotto
Madonna Enthroned
1310 CE
Trecento
Florence, Italy
tempera and gold leaf on wood
Innovative
Bodies with mass, attempts to show depth
Continuity
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels
Artist
Name
Date
Location
Medium
Giotto
Last Judgement, Arena Chapel
1305-1306 CE
Trecento
Padua, Italy
fresco
Continuity
Last Judgement over a Church Entrance
Last Judgement Tympanum, St Lazare
Artist
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Giotto
Lamentation, Arena Chapel
1305-1306 CE
Trecento
Padua, Italy
fresco
Innovative
Weighty bodies in illusionistic space
foreshortening
Figures with their backs to the viewer
Emotive gestures and facial expressions
Continuity
Fresco
Artist
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Duccio
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, Maesta
1308-1311 CE
Trecento
Sienna, Italy
tempera and gold leaf on wood
Continuity
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and angels
Duccio Giotto Cimabue
Artist
Name
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Pietro Lorenzetti
Birth of the Virgin
1342 CE
Trecento
Siena, Italy
tempera on wood
Innovative
Naturalistic Interior
Continuity
Reclining pose
nicola pisano, pisa baptistery pulpit