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Abbey church (completed 12th century), garden elevation

Title:

Fontfroide Abbey

Alternate Title:

l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide

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Abbey church (completed 12th century), garden elevation

Creators:

unknown (French)

Date:

ca. 1093-1780 (inclusive)

Style/Period:

Romanesque

Location:

site: Fontfroide Abbey (Aude (department), Languedoc-Roussillon, France)

Culture:

French

Materials:

stone

Work Types:

buildings; religious buildings; churches; abbey churches; complexes; religious communities; monasteries

Description:

The Cistercians deliberately sought out their desert wildernesses in places remote from all habitation, in enclosed valleys surrounded by wooded hills, with flat or sloping land close to a stream or river. Their aim was to work the land and make it cultivable, and names were chosen to indicate this transformation, for example at Fontfroide (Aude; refounded 1145). Although the Cistercians often avoided figure sculpture, in their later buildings they too took pride in graceful architectural forms and elegantly carved foliate capitals, as seen at Fontfroide Abbey (second half of the 13th century-early 14th). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

carving (processes); construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A2-F-AF-D3

MDID Identifier:

6090

Archivision Set:

Archivision Base Collection

Collection:

Archivision Base Module

Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Nov. 1, 2018

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