The paper begins with a comparison between the Carolingian opus occidentale at Corvey and the façade of the Romanesque pilgrimage church at Borgo San Donnino in order to show the contrast between an early medieval abbey church which seems closed at its Western end and a sanctuary from the twelfth century which invites the pilgrims to enter. Romanesque façades cannot be successfully studied without taking into consideration their original context : history, local topography and liturgy. There exists no unified type of the Romanesque façade in Europe. Bulky Western towers or closed Western fronts survive right in the thirteenth century especially in the Empire. Also in the Empire the persistance of the groundplan with a double choir excludes ...
International audienceIn medieval Aquitaine, most Romanesque churches where built with single-storey...
The scarcity of evidence trickled down from the late Antiquity and the Roussillon Early Middle Ages,...
The early eleventh-century church of St Vincent at Cardona in Catalonia is usually explained in the ...
The paper begins with a comparison between the Carolingian opus occidentale at Corvey and the façade...
The influence of the triumphal arch of Antiquity on the organisation of Romanesque façades in Proven...
Ireland has a distinctive Romanesque tradition, the «Hiberno-Romanesque», in which stylistic ideas o...
This paper examines the development of the west façade in England from the seventh to the eleventh c...
The analysis of the relationship between the Poitevin façade-screen and the structure of main body l...
Several exploratory excavations undertaken to the West of Saint-John of Montierneuf at Poitiers in 1...
The Development of Monumental Decoration and the Conquest of the Outward Parts of the Churches : Sag...
Western complexes in eleventh century churches of Normandy are mainly dependant upon carolingian and...
The year 1000, give or take a decade or two on either side of this date, is often seen — particularl...
ISBN : 978-84-669-3531-9International audienceThe vaults of the transept chapels in Santa María de L...
International audienceThe study of upper spaces in medieval churches calls for a multidisciplinary a...
Lassalle (Victor), The architecture of the cathedrals in Eastern Languedoc and in the Rhone valley. ...
International audienceIn medieval Aquitaine, most Romanesque churches where built with single-storey...
The scarcity of evidence trickled down from the late Antiquity and the Roussillon Early Middle Ages,...
The early eleventh-century church of St Vincent at Cardona in Catalonia is usually explained in the ...
The paper begins with a comparison between the Carolingian opus occidentale at Corvey and the façade...
The influence of the triumphal arch of Antiquity on the organisation of Romanesque façades in Proven...
Ireland has a distinctive Romanesque tradition, the «Hiberno-Romanesque», in which stylistic ideas o...
This paper examines the development of the west façade in England from the seventh to the eleventh c...
The analysis of the relationship between the Poitevin façade-screen and the structure of main body l...
Several exploratory excavations undertaken to the West of Saint-John of Montierneuf at Poitiers in 1...
The Development of Monumental Decoration and the Conquest of the Outward Parts of the Churches : Sag...
Western complexes in eleventh century churches of Normandy are mainly dependant upon carolingian and...
The year 1000, give or take a decade or two on either side of this date, is often seen — particularl...
ISBN : 978-84-669-3531-9International audienceThe vaults of the transept chapels in Santa María de L...
International audienceThe study of upper spaces in medieval churches calls for a multidisciplinary a...
Lassalle (Victor), The architecture of the cathedrals in Eastern Languedoc and in the Rhone valley. ...
International audienceIn medieval Aquitaine, most Romanesque churches where built with single-storey...
The scarcity of evidence trickled down from the late Antiquity and the Roussillon Early Middle Ages,...
The early eleventh-century church of St Vincent at Cardona in Catalonia is usually explained in the ...