Romanesque Architecture | Art History | Otis College of Art and Design
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- From the Caves to Romanticism, take a journey through centuries of art and learn about the role of art in culture and the place of the artist in society. This series of five-minute podcasts from Otis College of Art and Design features sumptuous images and informative texts.
Presented by Dr. Jeanne Willette, faculty at Otis College of Art and Design.
I am an Otis/Parsons alumni (1994) and now teach the history of architecture at a college-Just ran across this fine video, presently used in a professor's lectures at Otis. Very impressed! I have wanted to do this myself, but have only found the time to finish a voice-over for one of my lectures;but this inspires me to try again soon! Thank you!
All these lessons are very helpful i take my art praxis test soon! Thank you so much
That's great to hear! We hope to make more in the coming year.
" if you build it,they will come",very true indeed
There are so many hilarious errors in some of this stuff that one finds on UA-cam; not just little mistakes but seriously misleading stuff!
At 2.50 it states: "The basic design had been appropriated from the Roman basilica."
Now, the statement is NOT wrong. It is almost correct.
But there are several problems:
1. The person who wrote this plainly does not understand what was meant by "basilica" in this statement. The word can be applied is several different ways which mean entirely different things.
2. The picture that is used to illustrate the statement is Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. It carries the ecclesiastical TITLE of "Basilica" but is NOT the type of building that Medieval cathedrals were based on. In fact, this building was constructed well after the Medieval period was over in Italy. What you can see here was designed by the Renaissance architects, Bramante, Michelagelo and Carlo Maderno. It dates from the 1500s.
To use this as an illustration shows a great deal of ignorance!
EXPLANATION
An Ancient Roman basilica had nothing to do with religion It was not a church or a temple. Pagan Roman religious gatherings were usually outside, around an altar.
A basilica was a large hall where court cases and other events could be heard. A basilica was a long building with the doors on the long sides, an a semi-circular space (an apse) at each end. The apse had a podium on which were seats for the tribunal of judges who heard cases. the two ends of the building could be used simultaneously.
The other characteristic of a large basilica was that it was divided into three by two rows of columns (arcades), making an aisle down either side of the building, and giving room for windows above the arcades (clerestorey windows).
From the early 300s onwards, when the first large churches were built in Rome under the Roman Emperor Constantine, they were built to this basilica plan, but with one distinct difference- the had an apse at only one end, and, at the other end, often had a courtyard where people could gather for processions.
So the first few big churches got the name "Basilica" and are still called by that name. The ancient church that was dedicated to Saint Peter was known as Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro) but this was demolished way back in the 1500s, and the building shown in this video was built.
Because these ancient churches, which were large and dedicated to important saints, were called "Basilica", the original use of the term was forgotten by almost everyone inside the church. "Basilica" came to mean a big important church with special significance. So every now and then, the Pope would give a church the title of "Basilica". It was about the STATUS of the religious building, and had nothing whatsoever to do with its architecture. This means that all across the world there are Catholic churches with the title "Basilica".
BUT if an architectural writer uses the word "basilica" with a lower-case "b", then they are NOT talking about the church's religious status; they are telling you that the particular church is a long building with an apse at one end, two arcades and two aisles. They might say "Norwich Cathedral has a basilical shape". In Germany some early Romanesque churches have apses at BOTH ends, like an Ancient Roman basilica (place of justice).
Strange to label this "Otis *Art History*". Almost nothing was said about Romanesque architecture as art: "Roman" round arches ... massive ... from Roman basilica. All the rest was focused on the social and economic context. While important for a full understanding, these are really rather peripheral to the characteristics of the art itself. As for the images, why are you indiscriminately including Gothic and Renaissance architecture in a lecture on Romanesque?
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