Emo3onality
in
medieval
art
Ideas
• Romanesque:
Anxiety,
Tension,
milennium
(1000
CE),
power,
• Gothic:
looser,
less
anxious,
Mary
(the
Virgin),
kindness,
love,
peace,
comfort,
motherly
love,
closer
more
in3mate
rela3onship
with
God,
a
personal
rela3onship,
warmer
climate,
more
food,
more
surplus,
financial
success,
Images
• Romanesque:
cramped
space,
heaven/hell,
apocalypse
(last
judgment),
– Ste.
Foy
at
Conques
– Ste.
Madeleine
at
Vezeley
– St.
Lazare
at
Autun
• Gothic:
Personal
devo3on,
smoother
mo3on,
more
space
in
sculpture,
more
order,
symmetry,
heaven
on
earth,
rich
materials,
strong
ver3cals,
light
(=
goodness),
stained
glass
windows
(requiring
bu`resses),
• Notre
Dame
de
Paris,
• Notre
Dame
de
• St.
Denis