Cluniac

Examples of Cluniac in the following topics:

• Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

  • Famous for its Cluniac inspiration and its Romanesque sculptures by Gislebertus, it epitomizes Romanesque art and architecture in Burgundy.
  • The designs were the work of the bishop Etienne de Bâgé, who was particularly influenced by the Cluniac abbey of Paray-le-Monial.

• The Church

  • They were followed by the Cluniac order, the Cistercians, Carthusians, and Augustinian Canons.

• The Romanesque Period

  • Monasteries remained extremely important, especially those of the expansionist new Cistercian, Cluniac, and Carthusian orders of the period that spread out across Europe.

• Norman Painting

  • However, in the early 11th century, the dukes began a program of church reform, encouraging the Cluniac reform of monasteries and patronizing intellectual pursuits, especially the proliferation of scriptoria and the reconstitution of a compilation of lost illuminated manuscripts.