ROMANESQUE ARCHES
By #TomasTranströmer, tr. #RobinFulton
Inside the huge #Romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half darkness.
Vault gaped behind vault, no complete view.
A few candle flames flickered.
An angel with no face embraced me
and whispered through my whole body:
View from the south of the Grade 1 listed St Mary de Haura, founded circa 1103 with much C12 structure remaining. Of Norman and Transitional style using stone, flint, and cobbles. The funds for the building may have been sourced from the harbour taxes of that era. Church Street, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, UK.
St Mary de Haura / 2026
Grade 1 listed. Church Street, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, UK
#architecture #photography #norman #romanesque #monochrome #ccbysa
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Romanesque doorway with four orders of arches with chevron designs. Two columns to either side. In 1956, George Pace introduced two doors & two gates into the opening. The doors have small characteristic panes of leaden glass. The wooden gates are painted his usual black colour.
Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Wales
12th century external Norman north door.
In 1956 George Pace added the modern St David Chapel, so it became an internal door.
Typical wooden doors, with small panes of leaden glass & wooden gates by Pace.
#Architecture #Romanesque
#GeorgePace
#AdoorableThursday
The cathedral viewed from across the cloister. The spire stretches into a blue sky
Looking down the nave of the church to the altar Massive round arches stretch on every side
A close up of one of the massive carved pillars. Behind the pillar can be viewed the other side of the nave with sunlight coming in through the window
The apse of the cathedral. Massive round arches are bathed in sunlight
The magnificence of Norwich Cathedral #Romanesque
Boceto do baixorrelevo da "Eva de Autun" (igrexa de San Lázaro de Autun). Século XII.
Carboncillo.
#charcoal #romanesque #eva #eve #autun #sculpture #middleages #traditionaldrawing #drawing
As virxes-trono románicas, what a concept.
Facer esta ilustración dun momento tan bonito da maternidade cristiá made me emotional. I love mother Mary and Baby Jesus.
#trixiemattel #katya #katyazamo #rupaulsdragrace #medievalart #drag #romanesque
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Binham Priory, north Norfolk, was a Benedictine monastery, with the nave becoming the parish church of St Mary after the Reformation #norfolk #churches #priories #benedictine #monastic #monks #reformation #history #heritage #architecture #romanesque #gothic #medieval #light #benchends #windows
Circular stone font with dentil course, foliage & 13 arches with carvings of preachers, men fighting & a baptism.
St Mary’s Church, Wansford, Near Peterborough.
Font (c. 1120)
13 arches of carving, including a preacher (evangelist?).
“A quite exceptional piece of carving” - Pevsner. @yalepress.bsky.social
Found at Sibberton & placed on the base of another font in 20th Century.
#FontsOnFriday #Romanesque
A Romanesque flat topped stone steeple on an episcopal church in the Cranbrook Institute
Christ Church Cranbrook (b.1928)
Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County Michigan.
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#photography #film #filmphotography #minolta #architecture #romanesque #churches #mono #monochrome #bnw #b&w #suburban #bloomfieldhills #cranbrook #oakland #michigan
A stone Romanesque mansion
Bartley Mansion (b.1905)
Toledo, Lucas County Ohio.
In the Point Place neighborhood.
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#photography #nightphotography #architecture #oldbuildings #houses #mansions #victorian #romanesque #winter #snow #rustbelt #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #toledo #lucas #ohio
The Romanesque 'Norman Tower', Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was constructed during the tenure of Abbot Anselm (1121-48) and is now the detached bell tower of St Edmundsbury Cathedral (LH side of photo) #suffolk #architecture #history #heritage #norman #romanesque #bells #tower #photography #medieval
St Mary of Redford Catholic Church (f.1843) (b.1927)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.
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#photography #filmphotography #film #minolta #architecture #oldbuildings #churches #belfry #belltowers #towers #romanesque #urban #urbangaze #detroit #wayne #michigan
WELLHEAD, 800-825 CE. PALAZZO VENEZIA This splendid Romanesque wellhead is of white Luni (Carrara) marble, almost certainly from the ruins of the early C4 Baths of Constantine, but the marble, whose profile is all that remains from an ancient capital, was already reused from an earlier building, as Constantine pillaged abandoned structures to decorate his Baths on the Quirinal hill. This wellhead is carved with a series of arches and columns covered in braided guilloches enclosing crosses, also decorated with guilloches, with Romanesque versions of acanthus leaves flanking each cross and a six-petalled flower in the upper quadrants. Scrolls and peaked pediments rise from the tops of the arches to the lip of the well, with palmettes in the spaces between the arches. The long use of this wellhead can be seen in the grooves inside, worn by centuries of rope for the water-bucket. This decoration shows how Lombard sculpture reinterpreted Roman forms.
Centuries of #spolia. This #Romanesque wellhead was carved during the #Carolingian #Renaissance in #Rome, from a huge marble column capital probably from the lost Baths of #Constantine on the #Quirinal. It was in the now-vanished S. Agata in Diaconia, today in #palazzoVenezia. #AncientBluesky 🏺
DYK stone #grotesques in some #Romanesque churches seem to approve #GaySex? One guy holds the other’s dick; both have halos! But some #Christians still see it as #sinful? Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #PhallusThursday
Medieval jewel of the Aosta Valley, the Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Orso blends Romanesque and Gothic art, crypt, sculpted cloister, frescoes and a Samson mosaic, reflecting a thousand years of history. #Aosta #church #Romanesque #Gothic #mosaic #Italy
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Dungeon 1.5
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#3DArt #GameDev #Blender3D #EnvironmentArt #ArtStation #Romanesque #Texturing #GodotEngine #GameArtist #Krita
A French Romanesque Catholic Church built out of stone with a turquoise trim.
St Mary of Redford Catholic Church (f.1843) (b.1927)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.
The Parish Office
In the Grand River St Marys neighborhood
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#photography #architecture #oldbuildings #churches #romanesque #winter #snow #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #detroit #wayne #michigan
Stillingfleet #romanesque
A panel in the Labours of the Month series either side of main west doors of Lucca's cathedral. For February a bearded man wearing a cap is shown stepping into wavy water. He's holding a fishing rod and has caught a fish. Over his shoulder is a basket - perhaps with earlier catches? The scene is shown between green marble columns with corinthian capitals supporting an arch above. In space between this and arches to left and right are zodiac symbols for Aries (a ram) and Pisces (a fish). Below the row of monthly labours the months are named, here 'Februarius'.
#ReliefWednesday
Tuscan labours of the month differ from many others: much attention to fruitful wine harvest year round, but in February you might as well just go fishing.
13th C relief, Lucca's #Romanesque Cattedrale di San Martino, w zodiac signs of Aries + appropriately Pisces along the top.
398: Basilica ⛪✨
#StoneMasonry #ChurchInterior #VaultedCeiling #Romanesque #Historic
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"Sielska Francja" - zbiór niezwykle urokliwych wioseczek kraju nad Loarą już w sprzedaży 📚:
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Czas planować #wakacje ! 🚀
#sekulada #autopromocja #sielskafrancja #france #francja #romanesque #travel #photo #architecture #church #romanizm #podrozepoarchitekturze #gothic #podróże
Gislebertus, Last Judgment, c. 1120-1135. Limestone tympanum where souls are weighed and damned contort in terror.
Plastered over in 1766, rediscovered in 1837—salvation through disdain. Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun.
#sculpture #sculptor #Romanesque
Church of SS Peter & Paul, Rock, Worcs #romanesque corbels on N side & also where main doorway is. Several paired corbels, a few animals & possibly some human representations. A few of those ‘not arrow-sharpening’ grooves on the lower walls, too.
Central doorway with double round arch above.
General view of west front.
Central architrave.
Church of San Bartolomeo in Pantano,
#Pistoia #Italy
#Romanesque church built in 1159, but rebuilt in 1229.
The central doorway has an architrave of 1167 with the “Redeemer & Apostles” and showing the incredulity of Thomas.
#AdoorableThursday
Romanesque church stone doorway with bands of zig zag ornament, the outer course ending in a dragon and on the side a snake biting it's own tail. Two columns on the door jambs, wooden door.
Suffering for my art - absolutely pouring down in Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire, but a #AdoorableThursday door like this needs to be photographed! I've brightened it slightly so you can see better than I could in the ghastly gloom! #Romanesque and lovin' it...
Carved in wood, a very thin Christ lies limp on the cross. Red & gold garment. Bearded & with a crown.
Christ from a Descent from the Cross
Burgundian sculptor
C. 1100 - 1150 CE
A deeply moving religious work &/or rare masterpiece of French #Romanesque art
An amazing survival, with some restoration. Similar to work in #Volterra👇
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, #Pisa
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
Overview of the cloister arcade with white and green bands of stone and inlaid patterns in the spandrels
Capital with lions attacking an eagle
Capital with lions in combat
The surviving wing of the cloister of Prato Cathedral, #Tuscany, c. 1170 with capitals in serpentine stone, the "green marble" of Prato
#Romanesque #Romanico #MedievalArt #AnimalsInArt
