Romanesque sculpture
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Romanesque sculpture was most often made in stone, though sometimes in bronze and timber. It was always tied with architecture. It filled places on portals, tympanums and niches that were made specifically for it. Topics for romanesque stone sculpture were biblical, mainly drawing from the Old Testament and Hagiography. It was often so called Biblia pauperum.
[edit] Features of romanesque sculpture
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- Superiority of reliefs
- Tied to architecture
- Old Testament and Hagiography topics
- Application of flower, leaf and animal motives
- Fulfilling of portals, tympanums and niches
- Application of the frame law - composing of sculpture so that they were contained in a square
- Unnatural matches of forms, for amount of place on sculpture fit
 Gniezno Doors - example of Hagiography |
 carved foliate capital, deeply undercut, with distant origins in the Corinthian order. Picardy, ca 1150 (Musée de Picardie, Amiens) |
