Architectural style of Medieval Europe.
A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades.
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Examples for "Romanesque "
Examples for "Romanesque "
1 Yet it is in this province that the Romanesque is best studied.
2 This was Cadouin, and in the centre stood its venerable Romanesque church.
3 The style of the edifice is Romanesque with a genuine Lombardic tower.
4 The shape of his head was perfectly Western, perfectly and typically Romanesque .
5 Then again, late Gothic architecture has been grafted upon the early Romanesque .
1 The Rhine had a great Romanesque architecture of its own.
2 They show that Romanesque architecture and sculpture had already reached their perfect expression in Languedoc.
3 Romanesque architecture arose in northern Italy and southern France and gradually spread to other European countries.
4 The tower which has been preserved is one of the oldest and most interesting works of Romanesque architecture in Germany.
5 This is of course the church of St Michael and All Angels, Millicent, which is internationally famous for its Hiberno- Romanesque architecture .
6 Its otherwise austere Romanesque architecture contains one of the richest and most vivid works of Romanesque sculpture anywhere in the world.
7 The Normans were new in France, but not the Romanesque architecture ; they only took the forms and stamped on them their own character.
8 In the Hindu, Egyptian, or Romanesque architecture , one feels the priest, nothing but the priest, whether he calls himself Brahmin, Magian, or Pope.
9 It is Romanesque in its vaulting of the corridor, and at first glance in its great square tower, and arches, and yet not Romanesque architecture .
10 "One of the most complete models of Romanesque architecture to be found in Normandy," says M. de Caumont.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for romanesque architecture