Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of artists active within the Romanesque period of Western Art. As biographical information often is scarce about artists from this age, many are anonymous or known only by later notnames .
The large wooden crucifix was a German innovation at the very start of the period, as were free-standing statues of the enthroned Madonna. High relief was the dominant sculptural mode of the period. Master of Pedret , The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, apse fresco from Tredòs, Val d'Aran , Catalonia, Spain, c. 1100 ...
This revolution in style shortly preceded the period in which Christianity was adopted by the Roman state and the great majority of the people, leading to the end of large religious sculpture, with large statues now only used for emperors, as in the famous fragments of a colossal acrolithic statue of Constantine, and the 4th or 5th century ...
Romanesque art — the art of western Europe created during the High Middle Ages. Pages in category "Romanesque sculptures" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The earliest medieval examples are German; the style was significantly developed by French sculptors during the Romanesque style between c. 1080 and c. 1160. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] By the 12th century, German, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish effigies largely followed the forms and iconography of the French models [ 27 ] [ 28 ] and had begun to adapt elements of ...
Romanesque art in the MNAC collections. MNAC. ISBN 978-84-8043-196-5; Museu Nacional D'Art de Catalunya. MNAC. 1 March 2009. ISBN 978-84-8043-200-9; Carbonell, Eduard; Pagès, Montserrat; Camps, Jordi; Marot, Teresa (1998). Romanesque Art Guide: Museu Nacional D'Art de Catalunya. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
Romanesque sculpture and painting is often vigorous and expressive, and inventive in terms of iconography—the subjects chosen and their treatment. Though many features absorbed from classical art form part of the Romanesque style, Romanesque artists rarely intended to achieve any sort of classical effect, except perhaps in Mosan art. [38]
Statue of Don Juan de Oñate called The Equestrian in El Paso, Texas - At 36 feet (11 m) tall, it is purported by the sculptor to be the largest bronze equestrian statue in the world. Statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas - At 66 feet (20 m) tall, it is the tallest statue of any American political figure.