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Romanesque Art by Ulrike Laule
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Romanesque Art (original 2004; edition 2003)

by Ulrike Laule (Editor), Uwe Geese, Rolf Toman (Editor), Achim Bednorz (Photographer)

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The Romanesque was the first epoch of medieval art that encompassed all of Europe. Its origins hearken back to characteristic elements of Roman construction--reflected in the name of the period--and, in the course of the High Middle Ages, developed into the embodiment of Christian sacred art. Architecture, painting, and sculpture were permeated with the Christian worldview and the spirit of the religion. Romanesque at hand helps us understand and even experience this tight integration and masterfully explains the manifold aspects of Romanesque artistic composition, in which the hopes and fears of the people of the time found their expression.… (more)
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Title:Romanesque Art
Authors:Ulrike Laule
Other authors:Uwe Geese, Rolf Toman (Editor), Achim Bednorz (Photographer)
Info:Feierabend Verlag, Ohg (2003), Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, 256 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:****
Tags:arquitectura

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Romanesque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting by Rolf Toman (Editor) (2004)

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It's not so much that the artistic imagination has changed, although of course buildings are of their time and fashion, but everything has to be cost-conscious now and there is no vision of the future. Almost everything that is built is subject to the constraints of budget which means prefabrication rather than work by true craftsmen who had the skills and talent to make everything by hand.

From the Egyptians to the not-too-distant past, public buildings of note, palaces, churches, abbeys and seats of government among them, were built to last for all time. Workmen had few machines, pre-cast concrete and stick-on cornices were unknown. They weren't labourers, they were craftsmen, master masons, artists with tools and stone, sculptors and architects of vision. And these buildings were the result.

This is as beautiful a book as its companion book on Gothic architecture, and just as illuminating and entertaining to own. Its very much the sort of coffee-table book you could give to someone you want to impress, but one look at it and you would want to keep it for yourself. ( )
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Toman, RolfEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bednorz, AchimPhotographersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Beyer, BirgitEditorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Deimling, BarbaraAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Frahm, KlausPhotographersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Geese, UweAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kaiser, WolfgangAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Klein, BrunoAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kluckert, EhrenfriedAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Laule, BernhardAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Laule, UlrikeAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
McLean, AlickAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wischermann, HeinfriedAuthorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hulse, FionaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Macmillan, IanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The Romanesque was the first epoch of medieval art that encompassed all of Europe. Its origins hearken back to characteristic elements of Roman construction--reflected in the name of the period--and, in the course of the High Middle Ages, developed into the embodiment of Christian sacred art. Architecture, painting, and sculpture were permeated with the Christian worldview and the spirit of the religion. Romanesque at hand helps us understand and even experience this tight integration and masterfully explains the manifold aspects of Romanesque artistic composition, in which the hopes and fears of the people of the time found their expression.

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