Early Medieval Architecture: Facades, Crypts, and Hypogea
The facade that we see is largely restored.
Exterior Facade Details
- Lunettes for lighting
- Ears sustained by pilasters with capitals
- Cornices including courses of ashlar and brick with darker courses
It was suggested that this type of equipment is linked to Constantinople (alternating brick and stone).
Key Facade Elements
Arcos de mitra, classical pediments, colored stones.
It seems an attempt to revive a classic facade, gabled, and in some sense, to link with a bichrome Merovingian taste.
Keep in mind that buildings used to be whitewashed, and often analyze what are the building skeletons.
Reuse of materials, but not size.
Also, several theories exist about the size of the bevel. Many authors claim the bodies were barbarians because they said they were used to carve wood, and stone was carved like wood.
But in the American world, there was also a bevel size, so that is not the official theory.
The times of wars affect schools and changes in schools.
Crypt of the Abbey of San Pablo de Jouarre
In the VIIth century, abbeys were installed in the ancient Roman villas. They are more complex because they use earlier architectural structures.
Monastery of three churches. 13x18m
Six columns, shafts, and capitals reused marble of the Pyrenees.
Merovingian interpretations of the Corinthian capital.
LES DUNES Hypogeum, Poitiers. Final s.VII – s.VIII principles
In reality, it is a commemorative cella memoriae or camera facilities for worship.
It looks like the cubicles of the Roman catacombs.
The date is based on an inscription of the abbot Mellebaude (end-princ s.VII s.VIII).
This is semi-excavated. It is accessed via a staircase that leads to a door and a monumental entrance arch.
The inlet was about 5 meters and a lateral arcosolia.
The roof would be a vault protected by a frame.
The roof tiles and wooden beams above that are not conserved.
At the bottom would be a stone altar, also held the mass.
Clovis is already Christianized, no problem of worship, so it’s not the same context of the catacombs.
Indicates that you are doing ceremonies for the dead of some significance.
Entrance door-altar: Would carved with motifs of roleplaying, but no longer have the procession or technical sense of the Romans. They are fairly flat relief related to the length at bezel.
(In other away from the Hispanic cultures see this type of carving, so it seems not to be of Visigothic tradition, but when the time for cyclical factors have left orders for the great authorities lost a little sculptural tradition, then do this type of size.
Art that looks like a continuation of Roman provincial art.
Whatever is popular sculpture, small stones that people regularly do was order the most basic and general.
The type of stylization of the faces are similar to those in the codices.
Slab Hypogeum Dunes
Incision. All in a linear fashion, a single line.
Appear Mateo, Juan, and the archangel Raphael and Rachel and the other side would be Lucas and San Marcos.
It outlines the brackets represented by epigraphic, very common in the East.
SAN PEDRO DE CANCEL AUX-Nonnains, Metz. s. VII
Where we see flat size, reminiscent of what groups are Indo-European prehistory of northern Europe, with these volutes that they love.
Animal motifs sometimes developed as scrolls only end up looking like this tend to blur zoomorphic form.