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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is an ongoing web-based research tool that freely provides expert reports and photographs of Romanesque sculpture carved in the British Isles between the mid-11thc century and the end of the 12th.
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 .
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.
Neil Stratford FSA (b. 26 April 1938), [1] a London born medievalist and Keeper Emeritus of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum, is recognised as a leading authority on Romanesque and Gothic art and sculpture. [2]
His published works included Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads and Spanish Romanesque Sculpture. He is known to have been an innovative “scholar-photographer” though later critical studies have shown that Porter was the principal photographer who accompanied him on his travels from 1919 onwards.
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.
Gislebertus's name is the first ever found on stone work from the Romanesque period, as the sculptors before him believed themselves to be working for God, instead of themselves being creative individuals. On the other hand, as Grivot and Zarnecki state: [2] Signatures of this kind were not unusual in the Romanesque period.
These are considered to be revivals of ancient Roman relief sculptural traditions, and are prime examples of Romanesque sculpture. Wiligelmo's name is known from an epigraph carved as a postscript to the Latin inscription over the foundation date on that facade: "Among sculptors, your work shines forth, Wiligelmo". [3]