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 architecture "
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 The tower which has been preserved is one of the oldest and most interesting works of Romanesque architecture in Germany.
4 This is of course the church of St Michael and All Angels, Millicent, which is internationally famous for its Hiberno- Romanesque architecture .
5 Its otherwise austere Romanesque architecture contains one of the richest and most vivid works of Romanesque sculpture anywhere in the world.
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 .
6 The Gothic style formed a natural development of the Romanesque style.
7 Instead stone, wood, and glass assembled in a miraculous union-partgothic, part Romanesque .
8 The apse and transept are Romanesque , but the nave is Gothic.
9 Architecturally, then, bear in mind, it is in part Romanesque , passing into Gothic.
10 Begun in 1200, the building is a masterful combination of Romanesque and Gothic.
11 Ribbed vaulting made possible higher ceilings, spanning wider areas, than in Romanesque churches.
12 At St Menoux, Ebreuil and Gannat there are fine Romanesque churches.
13 Coutances and Bayeux are interesting, but Caen is a Romanesque Mecca.
14 Beaucaire castle is now in ruins, but the Romanesque chapel remains in tolerable condition.
15 It is built of white marble, in the Romanesque style.
16 The arch of the door is Gothic, but all the other work is Romanesque .
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