Decor Studies #2

French Romanesque

S.Sernin 1080

Northern France

Double Side Aisles

Mandorla/Visica piscis

S.Philibert 950

Autun Cathedral 1090-1132

S. Juan de Banos de Cerrato (661)

not finished!

(typical)

cross barrel vaulting

1000-1250ish

S.Madeleine 1104-1132!

Romanesque

Southern France

Notre Dame la Grande (11c)

Fontrevault Abbey Cloister

• Massive walls
• round arches
• immense vaulting
• not classic Roman
• influenced by Roman & Byzantine

S.Julian de los Prados 830

Spain Romanesque

Furniture

Oil Storage

Diphros/bathron

S.Maria de Naranco 848

Pelike

Lekythos

Hope it doesn't "lek"

Drinkin!

Theatre

Skyphos

H

2

0

Diphros Okladias

Carrying & storing water

Klismos

Ribbed Vaulting

• horseshoe arch
• buttressing (45 degrees!)
• window grilles
• basillica form

Grain storage

Amphora

Vases

Krater

water + wine!

Naves &

Side Aisles

Vaulted

Basilican Plans

antefixes at open end of roof tiles

DORIC

IONIC

sheltered promenade

Stoa

abacus

entablature

Doric Feature!

Triglyph at center of each column.

Metopes above each intercolumnation

(adjust size to make sure it's centered

Echinus supports

Abacus supports

Entablature includes

architrave, frieze, cornice

This is the capital in the Doric Order

German

Greek

DORIC

Best Example! S.Maria 1020-32

Propylaem (monumental gateway to a sacred enclosure)

ORDER

Romanesque

Shaft w/o base

External wooden roofs over these

Loarre Castle 1070

Boss

• Entablature
• Attic storey
• Frieze
• Anta
• Guttae
• Henostyle
• Distyle
• Distyle in antis
• Tri, Tetra, Penta, Hexa, Hepa, Octa, Nona, Deca
• Peripteral
• Dipteral
• Cella/\naos
• Pseudoperipteral
• Prostyle

Defensive Curtain Wall, Avila 1088

Schloss

(German Castle)

Nomenclature for temples

Molding more elaborate, but not in all examples

45degree angle!

Clothing

Caryatids & Split Level

Querfort

Fortress

Ionic

Anthemion

Lamb's tongue

Egg & dart

Bead

Basket

Order

Schloss Allstedt (15-18c)

alternating brick colors

Crypt

Italian Romanesque

Columnar and Trabeated

agora

Hellenic (classic)

Palaces = rectangular rooms around a central courtyard

tholos shape=

hippodrome=horse racing

gymnasia=athletics, bathing facilities.

Campanile

freestanding

German chest

Cathedrals

trefoil church

103-1061

Porch

(triapsal)

Speyer Cathedral

Facade

792-805

Aix-la-Chapelle

Laach Abbey

(Benedictine Abbey)

Charlemagne's tomb house

Gernrode Abby

apses at both ends

Lorsch Abbey Gate

Groins/Piers

Porch

Gothic changes

Corinthian

Order

Limburg Cathedral

Cologne 1190

• Stepback arch
• Waddle and daub

Church of the Holy Apostles

Open & enclosed staircases

700BC-146AD

Key Features:

Italiany

light wells, air shafts

300-700BC

Minoan

S. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne, 1047

Mycenaen (1600-1200BCE)

Features

Masonry

Lion's Gate

Mycenae

Polygonal/Cyclopean

elaborate drainage/sewage

Rectangular

Trapezoidal

Beehive huts for burial

Open air couryard

Throne room

Circular Hearth

Bath tub

lectus

table at Pompeii

scamnum

Columnar and arcutrated

Thermopolium

Roman

Theatre of Orange

Theatre of Pomey

vault

dome

Velarium

arch

dias

Hadrian's Canopus

insulae

Caryatids

Atrium

Cubiculum

Triclinium

Tablinum

Oculus & Coffers

Aedicules (niche)

Eastern Roman Empire

Basillica Aemelia (179BCE)

Byzantine

clerestory windows

arcade

Alternative

45o

St. Mark's Basilica, Italy

Market of Trajan

Istanbul

360

Little Hagia Sophia

Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus

200,000ft long, 250,000 spectators

ogee!

minbar

frigidarium

Bath Technology

Mohammed born late 6th c.

527

Dome of the Rock

thermae/balnea

private baths = balneum

Constantinople

1063

Church of

Hagia Eirene

Chair of St. Peter

6th c.

calidarium

Reliquary Box!

Islamic

tunnel vault

Hadrian's Mausoleum

tepidarium

Cupboard

532

Elliptical Barrel Vault

705

Blind Arcade

Qsar Amra (Umayyad Palace, Jordan)

688

(pneumatically impacted stabilized earth)

barrel vault

Mosque of the Prophet

San Apollinare

Saudi Arabia 707

Great Mosque at Samarra

milwiya

San Apollinare

spiral minaret

852

Ravenna, Italy

Early Christian

• bricks
• pise
• marble
• limes for mortar and plaster
• local stones
• window glass
• ceramics
• stucco, fretwork
• muqarnas
• horseshoe arch-ish
• ogee arch
• scalloped arch
• mihrab

foil

transepts, campanile, narthex

sarcophagus

Mausoleum of Theodoric

Santa Costanza

Diptych

Santa Sabina

Pupit

Church of the Nativity

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Faience

Shape vs. Carving

Masks

Pectoral

King Tut!

Egyptian

Cult Temple

Horus, 237-57BC

Workmen in Deir-el-Medina

Trajan's Kiosk

(barque temple)

sarchophagus = to eat flesh

Horemheb's

Temple of Isis

Courtyard

Step Pyramid of Zoser

started as a mastaba

Horus

Anubis

Bent Pyramid of Snefru

White Chapel of Senustret I,

Pavilion of Sesostris I

intercolumnation

Nefertari

it's twin is in France

solar disc =

Aten god of the sun; life itself

ankh

Abu Simbel

Cobra = protection; symbol of Lower Egpyt

Rameses II

(The Ten Commandments)

Temple:

Built by:

Impressive facts:

Back chamber 4 statues,

sun never shines on Ptah.

1960s moved 200 feet!

5th Dynasty

Cheops

Capstone/

Benben stone

Chephren

Ab u sir

Chephren

reclining

lion

Gizeh

220 ft x 66 ft

Mycerinus

What are the niches for?

Upper Egypt

Lower Egypt

Warrior

Unified Egypt

Crook/heka

Flail/flabellum

Amarna

Aten

(not Amun-Re)

no priests. yikes.

first step to one major god.

Mud brick and wood (housing of Dynastic Pd)

replaced by Kiya...

Smenkhakare

Akhetaten/Tell el-Armana

cartouche

Amenhotep/

Akhenaten

Nefertiti