Description
The lecture will show how architecture, sculpture and painting interact to form a new language that is at once spiritual, political and artistic. It will not simply be a matter of visiting monuments, but of discovering the images that have shaped the Romanesque character of Poitou.
Between the year 1000 and the 12th century, Poitou became one of the first major centres of Romanesque art in France. Churches, abbeys and shrines there bear witness to a tremendous surge in building activity, driven by pilgrimages, the veneration of relics, religious reforms, major workshops and the patronage of the powerful.
The lecture will show how architecture, sculpture and painting interplay to form a new language that is at once spiritual, political and artistic. From Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand to Saint-Savin, from Charroux to Notre-Dame-la-Grande via Maillezais and the Mellois region, the focus will not merely be on visiting monuments, but on discovering the people, the building sites, the forms and the images that shaped the Romanesque character of Poitou.
Chloé Banlier is a PhD student at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Medieval Civilisation (UMR 7302, University of Poitiers – CNRS), under the supervision of Marcello Angheben. Her research, which she has been conducting since 2015, focuses on the modillions of Romanesque churches in Poitou.
As an independent art historian and lecturer, she carries out studies and projects for local authorities and organisations across the Poitou region.
