The Rise of Romanesque Sculpture (Analecta Gorgiana)

In this short study, A. Kingsley Porter takes up a question that long puzzled art historians: why did monumental stone sculpture appear so suddenly in western Europe in the twelfth century? Porter argues that the origins of Romanesque sculpture lie in the sculpture of Lombardy, and traces how its forms and decorative motifs spread from northern Italy into the regions where the style later flourished. A concise essay on the beginnings of Romanesque art.