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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 826600" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p><strong>Saint-Gabriel, a Roman-inspired Romanesque wonder (2022)</strong></p><p></p><p>What could be humbler than a humble Romanesque chapel sitting in isolation in the middle of the countryside, a few kilometers away from the town of Tarascon (southern France)? Except that this wonder of Provençal Romanesque art that blends Mediæval with Roman is not so humble after all...! And why does it sit here, all alone?</p><p></p><p>To find the solution to this mystery, you need to go back to Roman times, and that is made easier by the presence of a Roman funerary headstone bearing a dedication to the memory of a “Master Mariner”, which reminds us that, during the Antiquity, this place was an important crossroads of the Via Domitia and the Via Heracleia. There, a marshy area made it mandatory for travelers and goods to be carried over to the other side by mariners navigating on rafts supported by inflated goatskins. Thus, during the Antiquity, there was a whole village here, thriving on passenger and goods traffic over the marshes, a small community that was still rich enough to commission a master architect and expert stone cutters and sculptors to build their church around 1150.</p><p></p><p>If archæological digs around the church have revealed the nature and extent of that village, no one really knows what manner of building (or successive buildings) pre-existed on this site before the chapel we see today. Tradition speaks of a Saint Philip chapel built in the 500s (Merovingian) or the 800s (Carolingian), but no conclusive evidence has been found to date. The progressive draining of the marshes over the centuries made the mariners’ community obsolete and the village was progressively deserted by its inhabitants, leaving the church standing alone among the olive trees... giving it a whiff of an Indiana Jones-ey atmosphere!</p><p></p><p>Many elements in the façade show an admiration for, and a desire to pay homage to, the way Romans built and decorated their monuments, which is not at all unusual in that part of France, not so far from modern–day Italy, that was well and truly “romanized” for several centuries.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]412630[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 826600, member: 53455"] [B]Saint-Gabriel, a Roman-inspired Romanesque wonder (2022)[/B] What could be humbler than a humble Romanesque chapel sitting in isolation in the middle of the countryside, a few kilometers away from the town of Tarascon (southern France)? Except that this wonder of Provençal Romanesque art that blends Mediæval with Roman is not so humble after all...! And why does it sit here, all alone? To find the solution to this mystery, you need to go back to Roman times, and that is made easier by the presence of a Roman funerary headstone bearing a dedication to the memory of a “Master Mariner”, which reminds us that, during the Antiquity, this place was an important crossroads of the Via Domitia and the Via Heracleia. There, a marshy area made it mandatory for travelers and goods to be carried over to the other side by mariners navigating on rafts supported by inflated goatskins. Thus, during the Antiquity, there was a whole village here, thriving on passenger and goods traffic over the marshes, a small community that was still rich enough to commission a master architect and expert stone cutters and sculptors to build their church around 1150. If archæological digs around the church have revealed the nature and extent of that village, no one really knows what manner of building (or successive buildings) pre-existed on this site before the chapel we see today. Tradition speaks of a Saint Philip chapel built in the 500s (Merovingian) or the 800s (Carolingian), but no conclusive evidence has been found to date. The progressive draining of the marshes over the centuries made the mariners’ community obsolete and the village was progressively deserted by its inhabitants, leaving the church standing alone among the olive trees... giving it a whiff of an Indiana Jones-ey atmosphere! Many elements in the façade show an admiration for, and a desire to pay homage to, the way Romans built and decorated their monuments, which is not at all unusual in that part of France, not so far from modern–day Italy, that was well and truly “romanized” for several centuries. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light. [ATTACH type="full"]412630[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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