Sant'Ambrogio, Milan 1080-1140

Lombard school

- brickwork

-campanile (bell tower) to left

San't Ambrogio, Milan, 1080-1140

Lombard School

--red and white polychrome

--nave: ribbed vaulting

--aisles: groin vaulting

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
  

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

San Minato al Monte, Florence, 1013

Tuscan School

plan:

• Transeptless, 3 aisled bascilica w/ chapel off north side 

Cathedral group at Pisa, 1063

Tuscan School

exterior:

• west front: marble facade with roman columns
• huge!!!

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

Cathedral Group at Pisa, 1063

Tuscan School

interior:

• zebra polychromy
• byzantine mosaic
• wooden truss roof
• corinthian column capitals

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)

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

Santa Maria la Nuova, Monreale, 1174-83

South Italian/Sicilian school

interior:

• Corinthian column capitals
• Clerestory lighting