Romanesque Architecture - An Overview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2021
- This video provides a general, clear introduction into how Romanesque, or Norman, architecture developed out of the Early Christian style of the Late Roman Empire, looking at examples from all over Western Europe.
In this session, using diagrams and photos, I shall show you how to recognise Romanesque buildings and identify the various elements that go to create this astonishingly beautiful and powerful expression of Christian faith, which still speaks so clearly to us across a whole millennium.
2023 and I loved this video. Greetings, very informative
Thank you for explaining this complex subject!
Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you found it useful! There'll be some new material coming out shortly.
I particularly enjoy the Spanish Romanesque, which has a certain whimsical character to it. This character comes from a fusion of Mudéjar styles with northern European. San Vincente de Avila in particular comes to mind as a good example of this. Also the domes of Salamanca's Old Cathedral and Zamora's Cathedral are quite unique.
Yes, I feel the Spanish national tendency towards flamboyant and ornate decoration is definitely something to explore more - the fusion is particularly evident in the south, especially Andalusia, where the craftsmen and masons were clearly predisposed to working within the Islamic traditions. But you see it to certain degrees all the way up through Spain, too, don't you?
Nice one 👍🏻
Very informative and enjoyable. Thank you.
Thanks, much appreciated!
Thanks for your video. I like it! There are a lot of information regarding roots of romanesque art and charakteristics of this period of art. The exemples are celected carefully and your information are very informativ! It war worth watching! And I will refer to your videos for sure (I ma making videos on romanesque in more cinamtic manner but only in Germany).
Cheers for your comment! Much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed it and good luck with your own, too!
well made, and a nice review of my art history, very minor gaffs, and well presented well done!!!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
The Tuskany Romanesque in particular Pisa Is inspiration Ancient Rome. Vedi uso delle Colonne.
Yes, I completely agree, the Roman influence in early Tuscan architecture is undeniable.
I only wish you had addressed interior furnishings - I'm thinking here of the templon.
Cheers! Unfortunately I don't want my videos to be any longer, so I have to try to limit things a bit. Maybe I can look at the interiors in another one! Thanks for your comment.
Pisa's Cathedral, the mostly-lost abbey of Cluny, the cathedrals of Speyer and Genoa, and much of the architecture of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, much of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, and the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil (which is the 2nd largest church in the world, and larger than any Gothic cathedral) are all Romanesque.
Really interesting, thanks for sharing this. Fascinating to think that this ancient style is found all over the New World too, isn't it!
Really? Truly astounding...I guess these in the new world must be re interpretations of genunine Romanesque
So what is the difference between Roman and Romanesque empire? What elements set the 2 apart and how can I tell the 2 apart?
Hi there Hendela. Well, basically, the Roman style is building directly on the Greek, ie. the Classical tradition, whereas, by the time we reach the Romanesque, the basic elements of this have broken down into something completely different, and they're building different kinds of buildings, too, now, such as churches, which require a new functionality. So Romanesque is paving the way for Gothic, which will become the new style of Western Europe, and the vehicle for the great cathedrals of the High Middle Ages.
@@lockdownlearning2718 thanks for the clear explanation!
Can you tell relation between Normanic architecture and romanesque architecture
HI there! Well, not really... it tends to be the case, though, that Norman, here in England, is noticeably plainer and often smaller in scale.
Yes
How is it different from renaissance architecture?
As I show in the video, there are quite a lot of differences from Renaissance, even though it sprang out of this movement - mainly in the way it bends and twists the forms and conventions it takes on from Renaissance ideas. If you'd like to know more about the Renaissance, I've just made another video on this: th-cam.com/video/_mNFJEyS_qg/w-d-xo.html
How did they do it.
It is extraordinary, isn't it! It still astonishes me how they put some of these things up. Hope you enjoyed the video!
Pisa is actually in Italy, not in France. 16:55
Aaaagh! You're so right! I missed that completely. For the record, Pisa is indeed in Italy, NOT France! Thank-you so much.
@@lockdownlearning2718 I was born there and I almost don’t speak any French (even if I’d like to)! 😛