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Cluny I, Cluny II, Cluny III
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Time Frame:
Cluny I: 910-945Cluny II: 954-981
Cluny III: 1088-1095
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In 910, Cluny I was started and completed and consecrated in 915 by the first abbott, Berno Baume. The Cluniac Order started at the same time that the construction of Cluny I was beginning. The order was defined as a biblical scholarship and a well-done church ceremony which stretched to the reaches of Germany, Italy, Spain, and England, but ended in 1790. Around 954, Cluny I was replaced with a much larger replication called Cluny II. By 1088, the foundation for Cluny III had started and then consecrated by Pope Urban in 1095 during Abbott Hugh's tenure. Plus, it was considered the largest building of it's kind during the pilgrimages. Cluny II and Cluny III were built to better suit and to fullfill the requirements of the incoming pilgrims and demands. There were four pilgrimage routes overall leading to Santiago, Vezelay, and Saint Gilles, in which two of routes originated at Cluny. During the pilgrimage period, Cluny was the designation of being a hospital, hotel, and a place for worship. Each route was lined with, what were called. hostels that belonged to the Cluniac monastaries. By the twelfth centrury, Cluny was able to house and accomadate 1200 fathers and brothers. By the eighteenth century, Cluny had undergone an emence number of attacks during the time of Enlightenment and the Revolution. During the tenth and elevnth century, Cluny was the in the middle of being the most widely respected church for the basis of the spiritual reform. During the many modifications, Cluny, at the end, had five radiating chapels, an ambulatory, a double transept, a double aisle, a long nave, pointed arches, an artistic apse, well-defined sculptures, and was proportioned just the correct amount.
Cluny III Floorplan
Cluny III Front Elevation
Cluny III Front Elevation
Cluny III Front Elevation Close Up
Cluny III Side Elevation
Cluny Abbey Wood Craddle
Cluny Abbey Model
Ambulatory Capital
Cluny Exterior
The Great Portal Drawing
Hope Ambulatory Capital