L’ART ROMAN

L'ART ROMAN

From 05/03 to 05/03.

Cunferenza: Romanesque art. Thursday 05 March 2026 at 14:00. QUITTERIE CAZES: Professor of medieval art history at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. History and Heritage Lecture. Corsica's heritage includes many churches that have been described as Romanesque-Pisan. The very nature of the Pisan presence is now the subject of debate among medieval historians, who agree that the vast majority of these churches were built by Corsicans. As for the very definition of Romanesque art, it raises many questions, since this terminology was not invented until 1818. The image we generally have of Romanesque churches is confused by the fact that they are austere, unlit and undecorated, whereas most of them are painted (Saint Savin sur Gartempe), bright and can be very large (Saint Sernin in Toulouse, Duomo in Pisa, Spire Cathedral). Quitterie Cazes, Professor of the History of Medieval Art at the University of Toulouse, offers a fresh perspective on this art of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which must be understood in terms of a particular spirituality linked to the religious, political and economic context of a period still largely imbued with the legacy of the construction techniques of Roman civilisation.