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Italian Romanesque
3 schools: Lombard, Tuscan, and South/Sicilian
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2011

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Sant'Ambrogio, Milan 1080-1140

Lombard school

 

- brickwork

-campanile (bell tower) to left

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Sant'Ambrogio, Milan 1080-1140

Lombard school

- 2 story nave buttressed by galleries-->no clerestories-->dark, supported by piers
- Transeptless nave, semi-circular apse w/ 2 side chapels

-Atrium preceding west front
-long + narrow -->site constrictions
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San't Ambrogio, Milan, 1080-1140

Lombard School

 

--red and white polychrome

--nave: ribbed vaulting

--aisles: groin vaulting

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San Minato al Monte, Florence, 1013

Tuscan School

 

exterior:

  • Marble veneer, flat wall plane
  • Corinthian half columns--Colonnade motif
  • Simple silouette--you can see tall nave and shorter aisles
  • Temple motif on top
  • Simple silhouette
  • tuscan polychromy--white and green
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San Minato al Monte, Florence, 1013

Tuscan School

 

interior:

  •  Diphragm arches
  • Wooden trusses

  • Crypt beneath raised altar

  • Green and white polychrome arches

  • Mosaic in apse

  • Corinthian column capitals

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San Minato al Monte, Florence, 1013

Tuscan School

plan:

  • Transeptless, 3 aisled bascilica w/ chapel off north side 
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Cathedral group at Pisa, 1063

Tuscan School

exterior:

  • west front: marble facade with roman columns
  • huge!!!
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Cathedral Group at Pisa, 1063

Tuscan School

plan:

  •  Huge basilica type
  • Double aisle in nave, single aisle in transept--groin vaulting
  • Transept creates 2 mini basilicas
  • oval dome at crossing
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Cathedral Group at Pisa, 1063

Tuscan School

interior:

  • zebra polychromy
  • byzantine mosaic
  • wooden truss roof
  • corinthian column capitals
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Santa Maria la Nuova, Monreale, 1174-83

South Italian/Sicilian school

west end:

 

  • Did not get any northern influence, but influenced by Byzantine + Muslim + Early Christian style
  •  large undecorated towers (very plain looking)

 

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Santa Maria la Nuova, Monreale, 1174-83

South Italian/Sicilian school

east end:

VERY ornamented/decorated, almost looks like it does not belong with the west end

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Santa Maria la Nuova, Monreale, 1174-83

South Italian/Sicilian school

interior:

 

  • Corinthian column capitals
  • Clerestory lighting
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