Romanesque Pilgrimage and devotion
New Vocabulary Tympanum Ambulatory Apsidal Chapels Buttressing Archivolts Scriptorium Keep Portal Trumeau Pilasters Campenile
Main Ideas/Concepts Pilgrimage routes drove building projects. Sculpture was the dominant feature on chapels, cathedrals, palaces, fortresses, etc. Feudal society in Europe--manorialism. Crusades were fought to open up pilgrimage routes
Pilgrimage Routes 1. Jerusalem 2. Rome Santiago de Compostela Canterbury –Penance –Devotion –Absolution
Way of the Stars. Assignment 1: Find out the legends surrounding St. James and Santiago.
Map of the Camino de Santiago
Follow the Way of St. James
Medieval marker for the Camino.
Old Roman bridge marking the Camino.
Plan of Santiago Note the expanded apse the Romanesque towers.
Note the Romanesque towers under the Baroque pilasters.
Tympanum: Santiago
Nave: Santiago de Compostela
On the Camino in France Moissac: Cloister
Vezelay: The Ascension Gislebertus: The Last Judgement Cathedral at Autun Christ in Majesty
South Portal: Vezelay Trumeau
Cathedral at Pisa
St. Sernin: Toulouse
Cathedral Interiors Durham Pisa