What is the role of sculpture and painting in Romanesque art?

Although in Romanesque art, sculpture and painting were subordinate to architecture, during the period from 1 1 century to12nd century, the religious sculpture of the church also made great progress. Although its main task is to deify people's thoughts into concrete visual images, it also teaches believers without cultural knowledge about agricultural solar terms, astronomy, meteorology, commerce and textiles with the help of large and small carvings on the gates and lintels, just like an illustrated encyclopedia for the poor. This simple natural science popularization education is like a ray of natural light flying in a dark imprisoned world.

The carvings of the above themes are generally done by folk craftsmen, so they have rich traditional characteristics of folk art, such as rich imagination, naive modeling, decorative horizontal organization and ingenious composition.

Tickets and foreheads of churches are the main works of Roman sculpture. For example, almost all Romanesque churches have semi-circular forehead relief (drum room), stigma and pedestal carvings, circular carved columns and decorative carvings on altars or seats.