1. The White Cloak of Churches: Romanesque Art II

2. Gislebertus (. ), west portal of the church of Saint-Lazare (St
Gislebertus (?), west portal of the church of Saint-Lazare (St. Lazarus),
Autun, France, ca. 1120–35

3. Nave capitals, La Madeleine (Mary Magdalene), 1120–1132,
Samson and the Lion
David and Goliath
Nave capitals, La Madeleine (Mary Magdalene), 1120–1132,
Vézelay, France

4. The Abduction of Ganymede,
nave capital, 1120–1132,
Vézelay, France

5. Capitals from the church of Saint-Pierre, Chauvigny, France,
second half of the 12th century

6. (...) what profit is there in those ridiculous monsters, in the marvelous and deformed comeliness, that comely deformity? To what purpose are those unclean apes, those fierce lions, those monstrous centaurs, those half-men (…) So many and so marvelous are the varieties of divers shapes on every hand, that we are more tempted to read in the marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day in wondering at these things rather than in meditating the law of God.
Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia

7. Europe ca. 1100

8. Upper Church of San Clemente, Rome,
ca. 1120–1128

9. Plan of the Upper Church of
San Clemente, Rome,
ca. 1120–1128

10. Schola cantorum (clerical enclosure for choral chanting)

12. Pavement: ornamental marble inlay known as “Cosmati work” or Cosmatesque

13. Apse mosaic: Cross as the Tree of Life

14. Apse mosaic, church of Sant’Apollinare (St
Apse mosaic, church of Sant’Apollinare (St. Apollinaris) in Classe near Ravenna, dedicated in 549

15. We have likened the Church of Christ to this vine; the Law makes it wither, but the Cross makes it bloom. Some of the wood of the Cross, a tooth of James and of Ignatius rest in the body of Christ above this inscription.

18. Campanile (Bell Tower), Cathedral, and Baptistery, Pisa

19. Plan of the cathedral complex at Pisa

20. Pisa Cathedral, begun 1063

21. Pisa Campanile, begun 1174

22. Pisa Baptistery, begun 1153

23. Pisa Baptistery: original elevation and cross section

24. Cathedral complex with Camposanto (“Holy Field”), Pisa

25. Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem

26. Duccio di Buoninsegna,
Entry into Jerusalem, 1308–11

27. Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as in 1609, engraving by J. Callot
Pisa Baptistery

28. Pisa Baptistery, begun 1153