Christian Pilgrimage In Romanesque Art

Pilgrimage began in the Romanesque world during the Medieval times around the 2nd and 12th century. Romanesque art is referred during 1000 AD in Europe and it is an example of the Gothic style depending on the region and century. The Romanesque period witnessed an outpouring in the allure of religious pilgrimage. During the Middle Ages, many people men and women traveled on long and short journeys or pilgrimages. The pilgrimage was a journey to a sacred or holy place. Many people in Europe began to travel for a certain purpose such as trade however individual pilgrimages made journeys to holy places for a spectrum of reasons, the most common reason was the hope of finding special powers of some sort or dispensations. The Christian pilgrimage were sometimes 3000 miles from Europe. The Christians probably traveled to holy places like Bethlehem, Nazareth or Jerusalem. However, the Christian pilgrimage became common for Medieval people to bring the sites connected with Christ closer.
The art work is considered a monumental sculpture and was created around the 1100’s. Many of the churches had elaborate and decorative sculptures, six of the plaques represent angels and apostles while one only represents Christ sitting which is the Christ of Majesty. The sculpture is made out of marble and is located in southern France. The sculpture was also deemed holy to the pilgrims since it was a symbolization of Christ. The Christ of Majesty in most works is usually sitting down on a throne as the ruler or leader of the world, the figure is also created in composition that is frontal centering the figure in the middle and making Christ the center of everything. Although founded in the Romanesque, Medieval era, the images itself originally comes from Early Christian art which was borrowed in attempt to recreate the picture as a sculpture by making the figure