Structure Carolingian

At the 9th century the Carolingian Renaissance involves a cultural jump in occident. That involves an artistic revival.

The redécouverte of ancient treaties of architects such as Vitruve, as well as the frequentation of the court of the Carolingians of Visigoths dislodged by the Moslem invasion or Byzantine artists fleeing the iconoclasme involve surge of the technical and artistic training. The Carolingian architecture thus develops. The desire first of Charlemagne, which was impressed by splendors of the Lateran, is to rebuild an Empire similar to the Roman Empire and this last shone in other by its very advanced architecture. It is thus a return to the forms of high the Antiquité which characterizes Carolingian architecture and its setting with the service of the sovereign. It is also inspired by the wisigothic Architecture, it even inspired by antiquity. However the adaptation of ancient works remains very original and is not satisfied with simple copies.

The Carolingian period made considerable great strides of primarily ecclesiastical architecture. Indeed, from 768 to 855 are built 27 cathedrals, 417 monasteries, and 100 palatine residences.

The architectural plan of the churches is always the same one and takes again a centered plan and basilical of the high antiquity but with a certain adaptation. A Coupole surmounts the building. The Porche is arched and it is surmounted by a former church. The decoration represents the vegetation, the foliages, of the braids and circles of various colors. The chorus of the building is placed at the east (“directed”), in accordance with the Roman liturgy, which a second chorus identical to the west answers to which two apses are added. The decoration of the religious buildings is also done by the use of elements of ancient architecture.

The stained glasses are invented about year 800. The Mérovingiens were accustomed to putting panes at the churches. Their fame is such as frank craftsmen are charged to put panes at the English churches. But here, the idea is to color glass so that light of day can clarify the nave of resplendent colors. The topic of the stained glass takes as a starting point an episode of the bible and makes it possible to retain a religious teaching by the image. The first stained glass is invented in Germanie and this model is copied in all the Western Europe.

Carolingian architecture precedes the Romanesque architecture and Othoman.

Works

Palate of Aachen and cathedral of Aachen (Aachen).
Abbey of Saint-Gall in the valley of Steinach (in the North-East of the Swiss ).
Abbey of Saint-Riquier in the Somme.
the porch of the imperial abbey of Lorsch.
the Saint-Benoit-on-Loire in the Loiret
Saint-Leger Church of Ébreuil in the To combine.
Notre-Dame known as of the Low-Work of Beauvais.
Germigny-of-Meadows in Loiret.
Saint-Germain in the Coast-with Or.
Saint-Philbert-of-Large-Place in the department of Loire-Atlantique.
Abbey Saint-Pierre de Jumièges in Seine-Maritime.

Random links: