ROMANESQUE-MEDIEVAL QUESTIONS
1. How does the Bayeux Tapestry recall Roman Art and how does it reflect Romanesque Tradition?
2. The second slide contains an image of two containers (Pyxis of al-Mughira, and St Foy) Compare and contrast the style and function of the objects. How is the 3rd African sculpture related to these images? Two are from the 250 list-the Fang Sculpture is related but the AP listed statue is a male figure
3. What is a Pilgrimage?
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-western-europe/romanesque1/a/pilgrimage-routes-and-the-cult-of-the-relic
pgs 333-338 Toulouse (white Book)
a. How do Cathedrals change to adapt to Pilgrimage?
b. What was a fear in 1000 ce?
c. What was the pilgrimage route in Europe? An interesting modern description http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/731278.html d. What would or could be written in a pilgrims guide book?
4. What are the Crusades?
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-western-europe/romanesque1/a/what-were-the-crusades-1-of-4
pgs. 342-47 (white book)
a. Go to the Metropolitan Museum Website or The British Museum and find a work of art connected to the Crusades- One Christian and one representing Islam.
5. Slides 3, 4 and 5 are images of the nave of St Foy and then Chartres Cathedral. Create a list of differences (evolution) from the Romanesque Nave to the Gothic Nave.
6. How is the sculpture program of the St Foy Tympanum organized? What is the figure style? What is the theme? Why would this theme and its location be effective?
7. Who was Abbott Suger and why did he have so much power?
a. What is Lux Nova and how does it work in a Medieval Cathedral?
b. How does Lux Nova motivate the technological advancement demonstrated by Chartres Cathedral?
c. What else motivates the design in Chartres Cathedral?
1. How does the Bayeux Tapestry recall Roman Art and how does it reflect Romanesque Tradition?
2. The second slide contains an image of two containers (Pyxis of al-Mughira, and St Foy) Compare and contrast the style and function of the objects. How is the 3rd African sculpture related to these images? Two are from the 250 list-the Fang Sculpture is related but the AP listed statue is a male figure
3. What is a Pilgrimage?
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-western-europe/romanesque1/a/pilgrimage-routes-and-the-cult-of-the-relic
pgs 333-338 Toulouse (white Book)
a. How do Cathedrals change to adapt to Pilgrimage?
b. What was a fear in 1000 ce?
c. What was the pilgrimage route in Europe? An interesting modern description http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/731278.html d. What would or could be written in a pilgrims guide book?
4. What are the Crusades?
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-western-europe/romanesque1/a/what-were-the-crusades-1-of-4
pgs. 342-47 (white book)
a. Go to the Metropolitan Museum Website or The British Museum and find a work of art connected to the Crusades- One Christian and one representing Islam.
5. Slides 3, 4 and 5 are images of the nave of St Foy and then Chartres Cathedral. Create a list of differences (evolution) from the Romanesque Nave to the Gothic Nave.
6. How is the sculpture program of the St Foy Tympanum organized? What is the figure style? What is the theme? Why would this theme and its location be effective?
7. Who was Abbott Suger and why did he have so much power?
a. What is Lux Nova and how does it work in a Medieval Cathedral?
b. How does Lux Nova motivate the technological advancement demonstrated by Chartres Cathedral?
c. What else motivates the design in Chartres Cathedral?