Origins and Spread of Romanesque & Gothic Style in France, Germany & Northern Europe. Slides

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1. Lincoln Cathedral, Nave Vault.

2. Exterior of Lincoln Cathedral, begun 1088.

3. Page from the portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt, with architectural designs, c. 1230.

4. Page from the portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt, with architectural designs, 1230.

5. Perspective section of a nave bay of Amiens Cathedral, rep in Camille, Gothic Architecture.

6. Exterior of Abbey of Vezelay, France, 11th- 13^th centuries.

7. Map of Churches in Medieval France, 11th- early 16^th centuries.

8. Nave, Interior of Abbey of Vezelay Abbey.

9. Reconstruction of Cluny Abbey, founded 910 A.D.

10. View of Nave with Tympanum with Judgement, completed 1130, Vezelay Abbey.

11. Detail: Christ.

12. Detail: Judgement figures.

13. Exterior of Abbey of Moissac, founded 7^th century A.D, secularized 1625.

14. Prophet Jeremiah, southern portal, Moissac.

15. Tympanum, south west portal, Moissac.

16. Exterior of Chartres Cathedral, 50 miles south west of Paris, 1194-1220.

17. Interior of Chartres, windows installed 1205-1240.

18. Adoration of the Christ Child and crucifixion. Rayonnant style, pierced gables and open tracery, polychrome ivory diptych from the Meuse valley, France, middle of the 14th century, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

19. Parliament of Rouen building, 1499-1508, flamboyant style.

20. Main Portal, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1150.

21. Unidentified Kings and Queens, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1150.

22. St Modeste, North Porch, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1270.

23. Detail of St Modeste.

24. Figures from Judgement portal, north transept, Rheims Cathedral, c. 1220.

25. Annunciation and Visitation, western facade, Rheims Cathedral, 1230.

26. Map of the spread of Gothic architecture, XII- XV centuries.

27. Death of the Virgin, Strasbourg Cathedral, exterior of south transept, c. 1230.

28. Monsters in in the lower margins of a Cluniac psalter, c. 1320, illumination on parchment, whole page 34.7 x 23 cm, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

29. Gargoyles, Notre-Dame, Paris, 1163-1345.

30. St Bernard of Clairvaux, from A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart (1900).

31. Two examples of capitals criticised by Bernard of Clairvaux: Vezelay Abbey.

32. Adam, south transept of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1250, stone, height 6 ft 7 ¼ inches, Musée de Cluny, Paris.

33. Giselbertus, The Temptation of Eve, Autun Cathedral, c. 1130.

34. Italian illuminator working in Paris, second figure in the Anatomy of Guido de Vigevano, 1345, illumination on parchment, whole page, 12 ½ x 8 ¾ inches, (32×22.2 cm), Musée Conde, Chantilly.

35. Exterior of St Denis, Paris, completed 1144.

36. Abbot Suger, stained glass, St Denis.

37. Tree of Jesse, north transept rose window, 1140-1144, axial chapel of ambulatory, St Denis; nave with arcade, triforium and clerestory.

38. Suger’s Eagle, ancient Egyptian porphyry vase mounted in a silver gilt eagle, probably 2^nd century A.D., Musée du Louvre, Paris.

39. Quatrefoil with Hedgehog, 1220, west front, Amiens Cathedral, France.

40. “Toothache” capital, Wells Cathedral, England, probably after 1274.

41. Unknown artist, Christ in Glory, Westminster Psalter, c. 1200, 9×6 ¼ inches, British Library, London.

42. Crucifixion, Weingarten Missal, 1216, 29.2×20.3 cm, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

43. Jean Pucelle, Arrest of Christ and Annuciation to the Virgin, from Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, folio 15v and 16r, 8.9×7.1 cm, Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

44. Klosterneuberg Altarpiece, parts added 1324-9 to the enamels of Nicolas de Verdun, tempera on wood, Kuntshistorisches Museum, Vienna.

45. St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic, new church 1344.

46. Passional of the Abbess Kunigonde, Dedication Illustration on fol. 1V

47. Passional of the Abbess Kunigonde, Kunigonde and Jesus, The Mystical Embrace,

48. Master of Vyssi Brod Altar, (Master of Hohenfurth), Nativity, c. 1350, 99 × 93 cm, Convent of St. Agnes branch, National Gallery, Prague.

49. Master of Vyssi Brod Altar, Descent of the Holy Spirit, c. 1350, 99 × 93 cm, Convent of St. Agnes branch, National Gallery, Prague.

50. Master of Vyssi Brod, Veveri Madonna, 1344-1350, tempera and gold on panel, 79.5×62.5 cm, Diocesan Museum Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.

51. Circle of Master Theodoric, Crucifixion from Emmaus Monastery, Prague (founded 1347 for Slavonic Benedictines from Croatia; destroyed 1945), c. 1365, National Gallery, Prague.

52. Master Theodoric, Matthew the Evangelist, 1365, oil on panel, from the front part of Chapel of Holy Cross in Karlstejn Castle.

53. Master Theodoric, Luke the Evangelist, 365, oil on panel 115×94 cm, from the front part of Chapel of Holy Cross in Karlstejn Castle.

54. Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway, west front; Nidaros, another view.

55. Urnes stave church in Luster, Norway, 13^th century.

56. Adam and Eve, detail of the vaulting from stave Church, Hallingdal, Norway, late 13^th century, now in Oslo Museum.