The Richardson Romanesque style exhibited the architect's individualism through unusual sculpted shapes and massive use of heavy masonry walls, usually rough-faced squared stone.
Romanesque style ......................... Gothic style
Romanesque versus Gothic Cathedrals
Excerpts from
Why Buildings Stand Up, by Mario Salvadori
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1980, pp. 206-215 ...
Romanesque Style
Develed in Italy and western Europe, Romanesque architecture appeared after the Roman classical period and prior to the Gothic period.
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These Romanesque styles originated in Normandy and became widespread in north western Europe, particularly in England, which contributed considerable development and has the largest number of surviving examples.
In the Romanesque styles the windows are universally roundheaded, with infinite variety of design in the mouldings and their enrichment, greater importance being sometimes given by having two or more rings of arches, ...
The heavy Romanesque style was especially suited for grand public buildings. However, Romanesque buildings, with massive stone walls, were expensive to construct. Only the wealthy adopted the Richardsonian Romanesque style for private homes.
The real basis of Gothic architecture, and that which differentiates it from the heavier Romanesque style, is its elaborate and highly scientific system of vaulting and buttressing, made possible by the presence of the pointed arch.
He introduced into Germany the Byzantine and Romanesque styles. Afterwards the Moorish or Arabian style had some influence upon that of the western nations, ...
Romanesque columns were originally seen in the Romanesque style of architecture in Western Europe from the 9th century to 12th century.
Sub-styles are the Second Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle style, Stick style, Richardsonian Romanesque style and Folk Victorian. Generally, Victorian style homes are asymmetrical, two stories, and have steep roof pitches, turrets and dormers.
This imposing residence has all the elements of the massive Romanesque style found in civil architecture.
View the Foundation Stone about the Romanesque style.
Romanticism : An artistic style which dominated or influenced much of European art through most of the nineteenth century.
Richarsonian Romanesque - masonry buildings in the architectural style of Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) that are largely based on the Romanesque style of southeast France; typical elements include asymmetrical massing, ...
They are rendered in a severe, linear Romanesque style that nevertheless lends to the figures an impressive air of aspiring spirituality.
The buildings of this time are transitional - many still have the thick piers and rounded window openings of the earlier Romanesque style. Vaulting and decoration are simple; there is little sign of the elaborate stonework to come.
Norman architecture - a Romanesque style first appearing in Normandy around 950 AD and used in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the 12th century ...
Typical features of the Romanesque style are: simple pillars often alternating with composite pillars; cross or barrel vault ceilings; external pilaster strips and buttresses; bays separated by transverse arches supported by clustered columns.
Other features that the Romanesque style made use of were the replacement of wooden roofs with stone (reducing chance of fire) and solid stone buttressing, the entrance and sculptural importance of the West facade, multiple sectioned vaulting, ...
Excellent example of Richardsonian Romanesque style. This is the fifth meeting house erected on this spot, the original having been built here in 1620.
11. Hartford, CT. Union Station (c.1870s, I think).
12. Las Vegas, NM.
13. Leavenworth, KS.
 See also: Romanesque, Roman, Architecture, Church, Gothic
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