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SMALL ROMANESQUE CHUCHES

This is the prequel to a previous posting on small Gothic churches. The buildings illustrated here—parish churches, monastic hermitages, chapels with special dedications—all date from the later 11th to the early 12th century.

Since its inception, the history of Romanesque architecture has consisted of a succession of masterpieces linked together in narrative of increasing size and complexity, culminating in the third abbey church of Cluny.

The religious needs and obligations of the huge third estate—the sacraments of baptism, marriage, and the eucharist—were fulfilled not in the magnificent urban cathedrals and collegial churches, but in thousands of small, austerely-decorated parish churches. These structures survive in a wide range of local styles and forms across Europe.

Due to the inability of the dominant critical paradigm to comprehend simplicity and on a human scale, small churches are rarely mentioned in surveys of Romanesque architecture. The omission of parish churches mirrors the invisibility over 90% of the population. An account of medieval art consisting only of the spectacularly expensive buildings and luxury goods produced for the aristocracy might be entertaining and easy on the eye, but it would would be a work of fiction, not history.

Pieve Tesino, Italy

Giacobazzi, test match con Rugby Pieve

Il percorso di avvicinamento al campionato del Giacobazzi fa tappa a Pieve di Cento, dove ad attendere la squadra del tecnico Andrea Rovina c’è il Rugby Pieve.  Dopo i test con Romagna e Paganica, domani alle 16.30 altra gara amichevole per i biancoverdeblù, alla ricerca della migliore condizione e del ritmo partita: “È stata un’altra settimana intensa – spiega coach Rovina alla vigilia –, dopo…