N°46 | Le cloître roman

Christian SAPIN DE LA COUR AU CLOÎTRE CAROLINGIEN From the galleried court to the Carolingian cloister. Well known in the monastic architecture, the cloister surrounded by covered galleries was not immediately imposed and proceeds quite surely from several antecedents. The latest archaeological researches in Europe allow us to retain remains of structures, leading from the courtyard surrounded by porticoes…

N°45 | Le portail roman – XIe-XIIe siècles. Nouvelles approches, nouvelles perspectives

  Anne-Orange POILPRE Le portail roman et ses images sculptées : pierre angulaire de l’histoire de l’art médiéval européen ‘Romanesque portal’: the term itself stands as an evocative phrase that encompasses all the major artistic transformations of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It evokes the flourishing of monumental sculpture at the threshold of the church and the threshold whose…

N°44 | La cathédrale romane : architecture, espaces, circulations romane

Yves ESQUIEU La cathédrale romane, ses fonctions, sa place dans la cité Brigitte BOISSAVIT-CAMUS, Christian SAPIN De la cathédrale paléochrétienne à la cathédrale romane ABSTRACT In Gaul the ecclesia constitutes the architecture of a triumphant faith. Given the number of churches present in an episcopal seat, it is not always possible to identify the principal…