Romanesque sculpture
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Romanesque sculpture was most often made in stone - sometimes in bronze and timber. Romanesque sculpture was inconditionally clamped with architecture. It fulfilled assigned for it places on portals, tympanums and niches. Topic of romanesque stone sculpture was related with Bible, mainly the Old Testament and Hagiography. It was often so called Biblia pauperum.
[edit] Features of romanesque sculpture
- Superiority of reliefs
- Inconditionally clamped with architecture
- Old Testament and Hagiography topic
- Application of flower, leaf and animal motives
- Fulfilling of portals, tympanums and niches
- Application of the frame law - composing of sculpture so that they were contained in square
- Unnatural matches of forms, for amount of place on sculpture fit
 Gniezno Doors - example of Hagiography |
