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Abbey church (completed 12th century), garden elevation
Title:
Fontfroide Abbey
Alternate Title:
l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide
View:
Abbey church (completed 12th century), garden elevation
Creators:
Date:
ca. 1093-1780 (inclusive)
Style/Period:
Romanesque
Location:
site: Fontfroide Abbey (Aude (department), Languedoc-Roussillon, France)
Culture:
French
Materials:
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:
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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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