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Outside Romanesque architecture, the art of the period was characterised by a vigorous style in both sculpture and painting. The latter continued to follow essentially Byzantine iconographic models for the most common subjects in churches, which remained Christ in Majesty, the Last Judgment, and scenes from the life of Christ.
Romanesque architecture [1] is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. [2] The style eventually developed into the Gothic style with the shape of the arches providing a simple distinction: the Romanesque is characterized by semicircular arches, while the Gothic is marked by the pointed arches.
In the traditional scheme of art history, Ottonian art follows Carolingian art and precedes Romanesque art, though the transitions at both ends of the period are gradual rather than sudden. Like the former and unlike the latter, it was very largely a style restricted to a few of the small cities of the period, to important monasteries , as well ...
Romanesque art — the art of western Europe created during the High Middle Ages. It spans the era from approximately 1000 CE to the rise of Gothic art and architecture in the 12th century and later. It covers Romanesque architecture, Romanesque painting, Romanesque sculpture, and metal working.
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 .
German-speaking art historians continued to dominate medieval art history, despite figures like Émile Mâle (1862–1954) and Henri Focillon (1881–1943), until the Nazi period, when a large number of important figures emigrated, mostly to Britain or America, where the academic study of art history was still developing.
Romanesque art, the art of Western Europe from approximately AD 1000 to the 13th century or later; Romanesque Revival architecture, an architectural style which started in the mid-19th century, inspired by the original Romanesque architecture Richardsonian Romanesque, a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named for an American architect
Germanic pre-Romanesque art during the 120-year period from 936 to 1056 is commonly called Ottonian art after the three Saxon emperors named Otto (Otto I, Otto II, and Otto III) who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 936 to 1001. After the decline of the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire was re-established under the Saxon (Ottonian) dynasty.