Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain. |
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Contents
Foreword | 12 |
The Stylistic Boundaries of Romanesque France 1819 | 18 |
Italy and Yugoslavia | 24 |
The PreRomanesque and ProtoRomanesque Styles | 31 |
The Carolingian Romanesque | 43 |
PreRomanesque Architecture in the North outside the Empire | 69 |
ProtoRomanesque Architecture in Southern Europe | 87 |
The Earlier Romanesque Styles | 107 |
Aquitania with Bordering Areas on the Loire and the Mediterranean | 263 |
The School of Auvergne | 293 |
The Mature Romanesque Architecture of Spain Portugal and the Holy Land | 303 |
Styles dependent on France | 311 |
Mature Romanesque Architecture | 343 |
Central Italy | 367 |
Northern Italy | 385 |
Germany with the Netherlands and Flanders | 411 |
Romanesque Architecture in Germany | 121 |
9001050 | 139 |
The Mature Romanesque as InterRegional and International Architecture | 157 |
Reflex from the Pilgrimage | 177 |
The Role of Cluny in the History of Romanesque Architecture | 185 |
The Cistercians and their Architecture | 223 |
The Mature Romanesque of Middle and Southern France | 239 |
Mature Romanesque Architecture in Scandinavia Britain and Northern France | 431 |
Northern France and Norman England | 439 |
Notes | 467 |
| 493 | |
List of Illustrations | 501 |
| 509 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200 Pelican history of art Volume 13 of Yale University Press Pelican history of art |
| Author | Kenneth John Conant |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0300052987, 9780300052985 |
| Length | 522 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation Architecture / History / General |
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