Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Europe which emerged in the late 10th century and evolved into the Gothic style during the 12th century.
Romanesque architecture - a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; ...
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St. Sernin at Toulouse: construction began about 1060 and the nave was vaulted about 1119.
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From the Digital Archives at Boston College, sharp photographs of Romanesque buildings, mostly from France.
Rosslyn Chapel ...
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A plan drawn on parchment of a now-vanished monastery in St Gall, Switzerland, shows that by the time of Charlemagne (742-814) the Benedictine monastic order had become a large departmentalized institution, ...
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The three words that best describe the Romanesque Revival are heavy, heavy and heavy.
Romanesque architecture
architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture - architecture as a kind of art form ...
The Romanesque architecture of England, from the Norman Conquest under William the Conqueror in 1066 until the rise of the Gothic around 1180.
The block capital is particularly characteristic of Ottonian and Romanesque architecture in Germany and England. See also capital, column.
Lombard band A decorative feature of some Romanesque architecture, originating in Lombardy, consisting of a row of small blind arches divided by vertical pilasters. louver (spelled louvre in British English).
The cathedrals also retained and expanded the loveliest creation of French Romanesque architecture, the chevet-the complex of forms at the east end of the church that includes the semicircular aisle known as the ambulatory, ...
Norman
A common name for the type of Romanesque architecture used in England in the 11th and 12th centuries after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Ogee
A sweeping S-curve commonly used for arches and in tracery from c.1300.
Develed in Italy and western Europe, Romanesque architecture appeared after the Roman classical period and prior to the Gothic period.
Sea-shell
A decorative element in the shape of a sea-shell.
dosseret: block above a capital, as used in Byzantine and Romanesque architecture to help carry the voussoirs of the above arcade.
double pile: a house two rooms thick in plan.
Clerestory or clearstory - The upper stage of the main walls of a church above the aisle roofs, pierced by windows; in Romanesque architecture it often has a narrow wall-passage on the inside.
Clerestory St. Denis - Paris - France (1122) ...
A simple cube-like capital with bottom corners tapered. The block capital is particularly characteristic of Ottonian and Romanesque architecture in Germany and England. See also capital, column. Compare with other types of capital.
A reason for this, may perhaps be found in the fact that Germany in the twelfth century possessed a Romanesque architecture which, especially in the important churches along the Rhine, ...
block, cushion, or cubic capital: A simple cube-like capital with bottom corners tapered. The block capital is particularly characteristic of Ottonian and Romanesque architecture in Germany and England.
of numerous examples of gothic architecture, from full churches and buildings to structural details. Gothic architecture is defined as the archiecture noted from the 12th to 16th century, originating in France. It superceded Romanesque architecture, ...
The figures need not have any meaning, although they may be symbolic or part of a narrative sequence. Historiated capitals were most commonly used in Romanesque architecture from the late eleventh to mid-twelfth centuries. Also see: foliated capital.
 See also: Roman, Romanesque, Architecture, Gothic, Arches
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