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2010-10-15 Blasimon, Abbey of Saint-Nicolas, Gironde, Aquitaine 33
Saint- Nicolas Blasimon was once a small monastery under the patronage of Saint -Maurice. It depended successively La Sauve and Saint Jean d'Angely . Mentioned in the tenth century , it has left little trace in history. Its unique four- vaulted bays ship warheads is the result of numerous modifications that have affected the built in small rubble early church.
the facade
The happiest part of these works is the rehabilitation of the facade, the mid-twelfth century. We then drew up a rectangular screen divided by four pairs of slender engaged columns, which still exists at the end of an avenue of trees in a romantic desire valley. Few works tremble such a joy. At ground level, the profile of column bases - two tori surrounding a studded bra besants - continues uninterrupted in stylobate tompu at the foot of the frontispiece to provide a sitting elegantly engineered, stable and pleasant to the eye. At the center of the ground floor opens a broken door with five arches carved ébrasent is largely under a beautiful archi . To meet this monumental entrance, right and left, in the frame drums paired, two small arches , drawing feints doors whose single roller falls on two columns facing each other. Almost halfway up a thick cornice corbels , covered with a little glaze, powerfully underlines the nakedness of the floor, where a large bay semicircular slit in the thirteenth century geminal arcade, stands alone in center of the facade . Both narrow and slender side panels to the floor overcome the blind arches on the ground floor remained undecorated , indulging in their eye recount the beauty of the limestone unit blond . If a second ledge was provided at very simple capitals crowning the tall columns of the facade, it has not been built , and there is , fortunately, not weighed down by the perfection of this sensitive geometry erected to serve as a backdrop to one of the most prodigious creations carved Aquitaine. The fifteenth century only built over the entire width of the frontispiece, a bell gable wall at the bottom decorated with hooks, weighted at birth crawling by two small pinnacles ; four bays aligned pointed arch surmounted by a fifth the same ajourent and make the set as a slight additional arcade open sky background.
sculpture
Concentrated in the blind bays , the central portal , window and coving, carved ornament of the church has largely escaped the revolutionary vandalism, which however mutilated heads in 1793 , and projects restaurateurs Giraud in 1848. A foodservice retailer also conducted with great care in recent years, not only partially affected. This is one of the vertices of the Romanesque Southwest in its final phase : the splendor of the figures, verve and freedom of invention ornament, grace and elegance that give the whole sensitivity and the address of a stunning scissors are strictly exceptional . As the lateral portal, fat stems, swollen arcades, run and hug wholesale foliage almost completely detached from the mass of the abacus, and even erosion of limestone lends them, if possible, a charm more. It is the same for palmettes second, third and fifth arches from inside. Their unusual size, strength and perfection of their curves, the nervousness of the chasing and their full implementation contribute to making the exceptional setting entrench storied arches . The capitals are in the same vein, but wear makes them sometimes tricky to decipher. Bases of the northern arcade, are , left, two birds strangled by a man they peck ears, right, two very spoiled monsters. The southern false door shows a vegetable basket and characters amidst foliage. The central portal, the line offers baskets , left to right: a lion face, a marked Far Eastern character entwined basil tamed by man, griffins, a juggler dancing accompanied by two musicians playing the sitting a lyre , the other viola - a scene that particularly well astragalus loaded beads and saw- tooth stresses - and a worn down characters about which has just been restored. The splay of this right under the arch intrados a basket of modern scrolls, then a man between two lions, a man supported by two birds, two characters pruning a tree and a tasty vegetable trash the lower half of which is new.
But the most beautiful part of this program lies in its arches with figures. The concave roller, first, where four angels standing on the clouds lifted their high - haloed wings instead of missing their heads, accompanied by slight rise in the arch of the Paschal Lamb who sat in the key, and is no longer present by its circular mandorla. They hold the instruments of the Passion, including the crown of thorns is still discernible on the left, and maybe whip whipping. They are the brothers of the great creations that name: Aulnay, Pont l'Abbé, Chadenac . As are relatives of the same current figures of Virtues Vices slaying in one of the many illustrations of Psychomachia, probably the most beautiful. It is effortless that the thin ideal figures of the Virtues, whose clothes small tight folds mold body that extends to the extreme, outweigh the Vices, hideous beasts swarming and crawling they trample . Sword or spear, protected by those they wore long shields to 1160-1170, and that suits their elegant mannerisms, they dominate more than they fight victorious, if one may say, from eternity. Languedoc distant origin of this growth is still perceptible in plastic Virtue right at the bottom of the arch, the most beautiful perhaps, crossing her long legs like a courtship dance.
The archivolte is dedicated to the hunt. Departures of the arc admirable isolated plant stylize comm: in staging Shakespeare, the dark world of the forest. The tree on the left has a tiny archer. Unfolds over a pack, encouraged by a ringer wrong; Dog sitting waiting for the signal to the end hallali where deer, forced is taken hock and throat, and still covered by a second archer, found that simultaneous presentation of successive elements of an action so dear to the narrative technique of the novel world. The right half of the arch has suffered more. One can see the struggle of a centaur against a monster, and a beautiful character drawn, leaning on his spear. Such is the extraordinary portal, crowned with the glory that should by a cornice with beautiful corbels responsible for animal and human figures wearing masks cord carved entablature, worthy of its tasty fullness and surmounted buxom palmettes of the single bay in the center of the facade.
(from: Romanesque Guyenne ; Pierre Dubourg Noves , Ed Zodiac , Coll Night Time, 1979)
2010-10-15 Blasimon, Abbey of Saint-Nicolas, Gironde, Aquitaine 33
Saint- Nicolas Blasimon was once a small monastery under the patronage of Saint -Maurice. It depended successively La Sauve and Saint Jean d'Angely . Mentioned in the tenth century , it has left little trace in history. Its unique four- vaulted bays ship warheads is the result of numerous modifications that have affected the built in small rubble early church.
the facade
The happiest part of these works is the rehabilitation of the facade, the mid-twelfth century. We then drew up a rectangular screen divided by four pairs of slender engaged columns, which still exists at the end of an avenue of trees in a romantic desire valley. Few works tremble such a joy. At ground level, the profile of column bases - two tori surrounding a studded bra besants - continues uninterrupted in stylobate tompu at the foot of the frontispiece to provide a sitting elegantly engineered, stable and pleasant to the eye. At the center of the ground floor opens a broken door with five arches carved ébrasent is largely under a beautiful archi . To meet this monumental entrance, right and left, in the frame drums paired, two small arches , drawing feints doors whose single roller falls on two columns facing each other. Almost halfway up a thick cornice corbels , covered with a little glaze, powerfully underlines the nakedness of the floor, where a large bay semicircular slit in the thirteenth century geminal arcade, stands alone in center of the facade . Both narrow and slender side panels to the floor overcome the blind arches on the ground floor remained undecorated , indulging in their eye recount the beauty of the limestone unit blond . If a second ledge was provided at very simple capitals crowning the tall columns of the facade, it has not been built , and there is , fortunately, not weighed down by the perfection of this sensitive geometry erected to serve as a backdrop to one of the most prodigious creations carved Aquitaine. The fifteenth century only built over the entire width of the frontispiece, a bell gable wall at the bottom decorated with hooks, weighted at birth crawling by two small pinnacles ; four bays aligned pointed arch surmounted by a fifth the same ajourent and make the set as a slight additional arcade open sky background.
sculpture
Concentrated in the blind bays , the central portal , window and coving, carved ornament of the church has largely escaped the revolutionary vandalism, which however mutilated heads in 1793 , and projects restaurateurs Giraud in 1848. A foodservice retailer also conducted with great care in recent years, not only partially affected. This is one of the vertices of the Romanesque Southwest in its final phase : the splendor of the figures, verve and freedom of invention ornament, grace and elegance that give the whole sensitivity and the address of a stunning scissors are strictly exceptional . As the lateral portal, fat stems, swollen arcades, run and hug wholesale foliage almost completely detached from the mass of the abacus, and even erosion of limestone lends them, if possible, a charm more. It is the same for palmettes second, third and fifth arches from inside. Their unusual size, strength and perfection of their curves, the nervousness of the chasing and their full implementation contribute to making the exceptional setting entrench storied arches . The capitals are in the same vein, but wear makes them sometimes tricky to decipher. Bases of the northern arcade, are , left, two birds strangled by a man they peck ears, right, two very spoiled monsters. The southern false door shows a vegetable basket and characters amidst foliage. The central portal, the line offers baskets , left to right: a lion face, a marked Far Eastern character entwined basil tamed by man, griffins, a juggler dancing accompanied by two musicians playing the sitting a lyre , the other viola - a scene that particularly well astragalus loaded beads and saw- tooth stresses - and a worn down characters about which has just been restored. The splay of this right under the arch intrados a basket of modern scrolls, then a man between two lions, a man supported by two birds, two characters pruning a tree and a tasty vegetable trash the lower half of which is new.
But the most beautiful part of this program lies in its arches with figures. The concave roller, first, where four angels standing on the clouds lifted their high - haloed wings instead of missing their heads, accompanied by slight rise in the arch of the Paschal Lamb who sat in the key, and is no longer present by its circular mandorla. They hold the instruments of the Passion, including the crown of thorns is still discernible on the left, and maybe whip whipping. They are the brothers of the great creations that name: Aulnay, Pont l'Abbé, Chadenac . As are relatives of the same current figures of Virtues Vices slaying in one of the many illustrations of Psychomachia, probably the most beautiful. It is effortless that the thin ideal figures of the Virtues, whose clothes small tight folds mold body that extends to the extreme, outweigh the Vices, hideous beasts swarming and crawling they trample . Sword or spear, protected by those they wore long shields to 1160-1170, and that suits their elegant mannerisms, they dominate more than they fight victorious, if one may say, from eternity. Languedoc distant origin of this growth is still perceptible in plastic Virtue right at the bottom of the arch, the most beautiful perhaps, crossing her long legs like a courtship dance.
The archivolte is dedicated to the hunt. Departures of the arc admirable isolated plant stylize comm: in staging Shakespeare, the dark world of the forest. The tree on the left has a tiny archer. Unfolds over a pack, encouraged by a ringer wrong; Dog sitting waiting for the signal to the end hallali where deer, forced is taken hock and throat, and still covered by a second archer, found that simultaneous presentation of successive elements of an action so dear to the narrative technique of the novel world. The right half of the arch has suffered more. One can see the struggle of a centaur against a monster, and a beautiful character drawn, leaning on his spear. Such is the extraordinary portal, crowned with the glory that should by a cornice with beautiful corbels responsible for animal and human figures wearing masks cord carved entablature, worthy of its tasty fullness and surmounted buxom palmettes of the single bay in the center of the facade.
(from: Romanesque Guyenne ; Pierre Dubourg Noves , Ed Zodiac , Coll Night Time, 1979)