Video: Saint Gabriel de Tarascon
Video: Saint Gabriel de Tarascon An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration: 3.10 READ...
Picture Gallery: Romanesque Symbols
Vézelay Marie-Madeleine Vézelay Marie-Madeleine Thiviers, Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Thiviers-SamsonThiviers, Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Thiviers, Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Thiviers, Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Thiviers, Notre-Dame de...
Picture Gallery: Facade of Poitiers Notre-Dame-la-Grande
Poitiers Notre-Dame-la-Grande West Facade Poitiers Notre-Dame-la-Grande West Facade Poitiers Notre-Dame-la-Grande West Facade Upper Levels Poitiers Notre-Dame-la-Grande West Facade Poitiers Notre-Dame-la-Grande Frieze and Upper Register Apostles Poitiers...
Picture Gallery: Aulnay de Saintonge Saint-Pierre-de-la Tour
Aulnay Saint-Pierre, West Facade Aulnay Saint-Pierre, Crossing Tower Aulnay Saint-Pierre, South Porch and South Nave Aulnay Saint-Pierre, General View Aulnay Saint-Pierre, South Porch and Chevet Aulnay Saint-Pierre, West Facade Aulnay Saint-Pierre, West Facade,...
The Great Portals
Video: Saint-Pierre de Carennac An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 3:45 The Romanesque tympanum was the ultimate artistic achievement of the early twelfth century. After the triumphal arches of Late Roman Antiquity, large scale monumental...
Video: Facade Notre-Dame-la-Grande de Poitiers
Video: Facade Notre-Dame-la-Grande Poitiers An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration:...
Video: Saintes Abbaye aux Dames West Porch
Video: West Porch Abbaye Sainte-Marie des Dames Saintes An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration: 3.37...
The Tympanum of the Virgin at La Charité-sur-Loire
Video: The Tympanum of the Virgin Notre-Dame de la Charité-sur-Loire An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration: 4:34 Video of the Romanesque tympanum relief sculpture of the Virgin at the priory church of Notre-Dame de la...
The Romanesque Ascension
The angels of the Ascension appeared in white garments because the human race had been covered by the dark because of a mortal blindness Odilon of Cluny Video: Saint-Pierre de Collonges-la-Rouge Romanesque Porch Relief Sculpture An Artsymbol Production...
The Tympanum of the Transfiguration at La Charité-sur-Loire
Video: The Transfiguration Portal Relief Notre-Dame de la Charité-sur-Loire An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration: 6.00 Video of the Romanesque tympanum of the Transfiguration at the priory church of Notre-Dame de la...
The Camino Francés: Saint Michel to Estella
According to the medieval text known as the Pilgrim’s Guide, the Road to Santiago de Compostela passed over the Pyrenees. It came to be referred to as the Camino Francés, because it reached Spain from French territory and was the principal conduit for pilgrims to...
The Camino Francés: From Borce to Puente la Reina
The Road to Santiago de Compostela known as the Camino Francés is prescribed in the medieval text commonly referred to as the Pilgrim’s Guide. According to the text pilgrims who used the Toulouse Road from France entered Spain over the central Pyrenean pass of the...
The Camino Francés: Estella to Burgos
The Pilgrim’s Guide, the twelfth century Latin text which described the road to Santiago de Compostela known as the Camino Francés, directed pilgrims through Navarre and Castile to the city of Burgos. From Estella the Camino descended towards the valley of the...
The Camino Francés: Burgos to León
The Pilgrim’s Guide, the twelfth century Latin text which determined the course of the road to Santiago de Compostela known as the Camino Francés, describes the road between Burgos and León. After Burgos, the Camino Francés soon enters the Castilian Meseta, a...
The Camino Francés: León to Compostela
The Pilgrim’s Guide, the medieval Latin text which charted the course of the Camino de Santiago informs us that before entering León the road passed over the Río Porma via a bridge. As the station marking the eighth day’s journey, the royal city of León, (Legio) on...
Romanesque Symbolism
The medieval mind considered the visible world to be an illusion which veiled an underlying reality and such a notion naturally informed the attitude towards images. In keeping with this, the Romanesque conception of the pictorial arts was heavily informed by...
Via Tolosana – One crosses Saint-Gilles, Montpellier, Toulouse, and the pass of Somport
The Road of Toulouse or Via Tolosana was the most southerly French route, leading from Provence to the Pyrenean pass of the Somport. It began at the ancient Roman necropolis of the Alyscans cemetery and its myriad saintly tombs, just outside the city gates of Arles....
Via Turonensis
Video: The Tours Road at Saint Savin An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 1:53 Still another cuts through Saint-Martin of Tours, Saint-Hilaire of Poitiers, Saint-Jean-d’Angely, Saint-Eutrope of Saintes and the city of Bordeaux. LSJ...
The Romanesque Tympanum of Conques
Video: West Porch Tympanum Abbey of Sainte Foy de Conques An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 6.00 Even the deep recesses of Erebus lie open as she leads souls out of the underworld The Book of Miracles of Sainte Foy Bernard of...
Picture Gallery: Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Picture Gallery: Daniel in the Lion’s Den Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Sarcophagus of Sainte Quiterrie, Aire-sur-l’Adour Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Sarcophagus De La Chaste Suzanne, Alyscans, Arles Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Sarcophagus San...
The Romanesque Facade of Poitiers: Notre-Dame-la-Grande
Video: Romanesque Facade Notre-Dame la Grande de Poitiers An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration: 5.27 According to legend the church of Notre-Dame la Grande at Poitiers had been founded by the Roman emperor Constantine. This may have been the...
Daniel In The Lion’s Den
Daniel In The Lion’s Den You may be brought from the Den and may be found as a sharer of the Resurrection Hippolytus of Rome: In Danielem The depiction of Daniel in the Lion’s Den was one of the most iconic in the whole Romanesque canon. Showing a human figure...
Via Podensis
Another goes through Notre-Dame of Le Puy, Sainte-Foy of Conques and Saint-Pierre of Moissac The Pilgrim’s Guide The Puy Road was one of the four French pilgrimage roads to Santiago de Compostela. In the year 951 the bishop of the Auvergnat town of Le...
Espalion Perse Church of Saint Hilarianus
Espalion was an important halt on the Puy Road to Compostela. Pilgrims who travelled this route would have come from Marian shrine of Le Puy-en-Velay via Saugues and the desolate landscape of the high plateau of the Aubrac. The pilgrims were journeying not only to...
The Jacobus and the Camino: Of the names of towns on this road
At some point in the middle of the twelfth century, the authors of the Jacobus, the manuscript devoted to the cult of the Apostle James, set down in writing what had partly been a growing popular tradition and partly the enforced will of royalty and the Church, the...
Vézelay: The Mystic Mill
On the south aisle of the basilica of Marie Madeleine at Vézelay in Burgundy is an exceptional carved capital often referred to as the Mystic Mill. The depiction of two male figures, one pouring grain into a mill and the other receiving the processed flour into a sack...
Via Lemivocensis
Thereupon, on the route that through Saint-Leonard stretches towards Santiago, the most worthy remains of the Blessed Mary Magdalene must first of all be rightly worshipped by the pilgrims. LSJ Video: The Limoges Road near Troyes An Artsymbol Production...
The names of those who restored the road
The development of the Camino was a major enterprise supported by influential and wealthy interests. The Spanish pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela is a journey of almost seven hundred kilometres crossing two formidable mountain ranges, the Pyrenees and the...
Vézelay
The church of Vézelay is known and shining unto the ends of the earth and eminent all over the world Hugues de Poitiers Video: The Pilgrimage Road at Vézelay An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 1:35 On a lonely hilltop in Burgundy stands...